Pasternak digging potatoes - Photo needed

[michael.pushkin]

Dear Leonid,

There is a photograph of Boris Leonidovich digging in his dacha garden in
summer 1958, opposite p. 496 of the Biblioteka poeta edition, Sovetskii
pisatel', M-L. 1965. But whether it's potatoes he's digging I couldn't
possibly say! Sorry not to be more specifically helpful.

Yours,

Mike Pushkin
CREES
ERI
University of Birmingham
UK

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From: "Sharashkin, Leonid E (UMC-Student)" <lesxrf at MIZZOU.EDU>
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Pasternak digging potatoes - Photo needed


Dear Colleagues,

We know from a variety of sources that Boris Pasternak tended a potato patch
at his dacha in Peredelkino during and after WWII - and even derived his
inspiration for the potato theme in Doctor Zhivago's Varykino chapter from
this activity.

If you have ever seen a photograph of this potato patch (or, better still, a
photo of Pasternak involved in its cultivation) - could you please point me
in the direction of the source (published, on-line, museum, etc.) where it
may be seen.

The photo is needed for research on the spiritual significance of dacha plot
cultivation movement, and your help will be greatly appreciated.

Iskrenne,

Leonid Sharashkin
University of Missouri at Columbia

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