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Lydia Leonidovna Pasternak

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Lydia Leonidovna Pasternak

Birth
Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russia
Death
4 May 1989 (aged 87)
Oxfordshire, England
Burial
Oxford, City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Add to Map
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Sister of Boris Pasternak. She was married to Eliot Slater (1904-1983). She was a chemist who was compelled to change her profession due to both marriage and second exile. Born and educated in Moscow, she studied in Berlin and worked in science in Munich, but after emigrating to Great Britain she became an outstanding translator of Russian poems.
Sister of Boris Pasternak. She was married to Eliot Slater (1904-1983). She was a chemist who was compelled to change her profession due to both marriage and second exile. Born and educated in Moscow, she studied in Berlin and worked in science in Munich, but after emigrating to Great Britain she became an outstanding translator of Russian poems.


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