Chistopol
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Chistopol is a town in Tatarstan, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kuybyshev Reservoir, on the Kama River. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 60,755.
View of Chistopol
Panorama of the central part of Chistopol
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.
Chistopol
…town (after Kazan) in Kazan Governorate. During the Great Patriotic War, Chistopol become a shelter for the Union of Soviet Writers, which included Boris Pasternak, Leonid Leonov and other notables. Between 1918 and the 1950s the bodies of those who died or were executed in the city prison were concealed in the…
Pasternak in 1959
Boris (left) with his brother Alex; painting by their father, Leonid Pasternak
Pasternak c. 1908
Boris Pasternak in 1910, by his father Leonid Pasternak