Always trying to “get to the very essence” in everything, Boris Pasternak, drawing creative strength from early childhood, brings his literary talent to brilliant heights - be it prose, poetry or translations. In this collection, along with the famous and beloved works of B. Pasternak (the stories “Childhood Grommets” and “Safety Certificate”, the autobiographical essay “People and Positions”, books of poems “Initial Time”, “Second Birth”, “Themes and Variations”, “The Poems of Yuri Zhivago” and others, translations of Verlaine, Shakespeare, Shelley) presents rarely published works - the novel in verse “Spektorsky”, selected translations of Georgian romantics - Tabidze, Baratashvili, Yashvili, Chikovani.