All Topics  
Leon Pasternak

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Leon Pasternak
 
 
  Topics Leon Pasternak Topic Home

Leon Pasternak (12 August 1910, Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (soon became Lwow, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, now Lviv, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
) - 14 November 1969 Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
, Poland) was a Polish
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 poet and satirist. He was Jewish and related to Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago , a tragedy whose events span the last period of Tsarist Russia and the early days of the Soviet Union....
 the famous Russian poet.

In the 1920's Leon was a young idealist and committed communist. As a result of his political activities — writing satirical verses for socialist revolutionary periodicals, and spreading communist propaganda in any possible way — Leon had to leave Lwow for Warsaw.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Leon Pasternak'
Start a new discussion about 'Leon Pasternak'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Leon Pasternak (12 August 1910, Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (soon became Lwow, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, now Lviv, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
) - 14 November 1969 Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
, Poland) was a Polish
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 poet and satirist. He was Jewish and related to Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago , a tragedy whose events span the last period of Tsarist Russia and the early days of the Soviet Union....
 the famous Russian poet.

In the 1920's Leon was a young idealist and committed communist. As a result of his political activities — writing satirical verses for socialist revolutionary periodicals, and spreading communist propaganda in any possible way — Leon had to leave Lwow for Warsaw. There his works quickly became popular, but soon the “literary cabaret” which he founded in collaboration with Stanislaw Lec (referred to as the Theater of Boys by some and as the Five Kopeck Theater by others), was closed by the authorities, after only eight performances.

Imprisoned in Bereza Kartuska


In 1934, Leon then a young man of 24, was imprisoned in the Bereza Kartuska detention camp, where Polish Communist activists were jailed. His relatives traveled all the way from Lwow with parcels of warm clothing and food to help him sustain the harsh conditions of jail were many inmates died. Meanwhile across the border of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
, Leon's relative Boris Pasternak escaped a similar fate of ideological imprisonment: Boris became disillusioned with Communist ideals, and was about to be arrested. Yet it is said that Stalin has crossed Pasternak's name off an arrest list during the purges.

After one year in prison Leon Pasternak was released. In the beginning of WW2 he fled to the USSR, were he joined the Red Army
Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
 and fought in the division of the Polish army against the Nazis. After the war Leon Pasternak became the vice-chairman of the Polish Writers' Association. Pasternak was married to the Polish actress Ryszarda Hanin.

"Leon Pasternak was idealistic till the end, faithful till his last breath" said Ryszard Marek Gronski the well know Polish author and poet.

he:???? ?????? pl:Leon Pasternak