The ninth volume includes letters from 1935-1953, the most terrible and tragic period of Soviet history. They testify to Pasternak’s growing disappointment in the values proclaimed from high stands, their blatant contradiction with reality, the collapse of hopes for liberalization of the regime after the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. This included previously unpublished letters from Pasternak in defense of the repressed, addressed to party leaders and state - I.V. Stalin, L.P. Beria, A.S. Shcherbakov, as well as the general. Secretary of the Writers' Union A. A Fadeev, which at that time required considerable civil and personal courage. Letters from this period reflect Pasternak's fruitful translation activities, when he translated almost all of Shakespeare's tragedies, Goethe's Faust and other works. Of particular interest are letters that trace the main stages of work on the novel Doctor Zhivago.