Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow on February 10, 1890 into an artistic family of Russian-Jewish heritage. His father was an acclaimed artist named Leonid Pasternak, who converted to Christianity, and his mother was a renown concert pianist named Rosa Kaufman. Their home was open to family friends such as composers Sergei Rachmaninov and Alexander Scriabin as well as writers Rilke and Leo Tolstoy. Pasternak had a happy childhood, being brought up by prominent intellectuals in a cosmopolitan ...[Read Story]