🖼 Boris Pasternak Memorial Museum

ул. Ленина, 81, Чистополь

The house where Pasternak lived in evacuation and translated Shakespeare: his room on the second floor and an exhibition about Chistopol's writers.

Pasternak lived in this house in evacuation from October 1941 to June 1943.
The museum opened in 1990, for the poet's 100th anniversary.
The poet rented a corner room on the second floor of the house of the bank clerk Vasily Vavilov.
In Chistopol Pasternak translated Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra.
On 26 February 1942 he read his translation of Romeo and Juliet in public at the town's Teachers' House.
On 1 October 2015 a monument to Pasternak was unveiled in Chistopol.

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