Boris Pasternak, the brightest poet of the Silver Age, one of the most significant writers of the Soviet period and a great translator, was a man of difficult fate. Due to the persecution unleashed in the press, he had to refuse the Nobel Prize for the novel Doctor Zhivago, the creation of which the writer himself considered the work of his life. The book by the French writer and historian Henri Troyat tells about the dramatic fate of Pasternak, about the tragic confrontation The poet and the Soviet bureaucratic system, about his friendship with Mayakovsky and Tsvetaeva, about the women who became his muses for many years.