Homage to Pasternak, With Piano and Poetry; Fans of Russian Writer Gather Every Year

The Washington Post | June 10, 2008| | Copyright

The sound of the piano -- Franz Liszt's "Consolation" -- floated gently through the open window and settled among the tall pines just as it did when Boris Pasternak lay in the drawing room in an open coffin surrounded by heaped flowers -- tulips and lilac, cherry and apple blossoms.

"Something in their hearts calls people," said Natalia Pasternaka, 71, the poet's daughter-in-law and custodian of his country home, which is now a museum. "We never advertise, but people always remember the date."

Pasternak, one of Russia's greatest poets and the author of the novel "Doctor Zhivago," died ...

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