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...Sentence. As the proceedings droned on, telegrams and letters arrived from the poet's prestigious friends -Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Lenin Prizewinning Authors Samuel Marshak, Kornei Chukovsky and many others-protesting the absurdity of the trial. Such public boldness among artists took not only courage but conscience, but their protests were in vain. Brodsky was sentenced to five years of "useful labor." His job: carting manure at a camp near Archangel...
...across the open fields from the suburban railroad station. A slow procession wound through the house to view the body: students, workers, peasants, elderly men and women of Pasternak's own generation. There were even some writers who braved official displeasure: Novelist Konstantin Paustovsky, Children's Author Kornei Chukovsky and, through his wife, Ilya Ehrenburg. Sviatoslav Richter, Russia's finest pianist, played slow dirges and the Chopin melodies that Pasternak had loved...
...stepped forward was Kornei Chukovsky, 78, in his time the friend of Anton Chekov and Maxim Gorky. After recalling his long friendship with Pasternak, Chukovsky gingerly approached the crucial question: Pasternak's quarrel with the Communist Party. It resulted, said Chukovsky, from Pasternak's sharing Leo Tolstoy's pacifism and his refusal to "condone the resistance to evil by violence." In this Pasternak erred, stated Chukovsky. Then, having made the necessary obeisance to the Kremlin, he went on strongly to praise his old friend as a "splendid fighter," a perfect model of how an artist "should defend...
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