Detstvo Liuvers. Okhrannaia gramota

For the modern young reader, the early prose of the classics of Russian literature of the 20th century Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) is often overshadowed by the famous novel "Dr. Jivago". Meanwhile, the novels "Childhood of Luvers" (1918) and "Guardian Literacy" (1930) also belong to the top works of Russian literature, comparable to Leo Tolstoy's trilogy about childhood, adolescence and adolescence. (Remember, by the way, that the original name of "Dr. Jivago" - "Boys and girls.") The story of the growing up of the "invented" girl Eugene Luvers and the autobiographical confession of the great poet are one in the main: "Pasternak did not depict the world of the child, and expressed it from within" (Alexander Arkhangelsky). All his works seem to be illuminated by memories of children's joys - Christmas trees, golden balls, gingerbread - and about genuine children's sorrows and dramas. Here is the quintessence of this high prose, a line from the finale...