Word: yevgeni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after his death from cancer in 1960. Since then, the house and the grave-site have become a shrine to thousands of visitors a year. "It is the only place in the world where the life of Pasternak is in place," says the author's only surviving son, Yevgeni Pasternak, 58. "It is the world's memorial...
...news was bitterly received by Pasternak's family. Yevgeni Pasternak, a member of the research staff of the Institute of Literature, and his sister-in-law Natalya Pasternak, the widow of the author's other son Leonid, do not live in the house, but they have diligently kept it in repair and conducted tours for visitors. Everything has been preserved just as it was when Pasternak was living. Among the keepsakes: the piano where the noted Russian pianist Svyatoslav Richter played all through the night Pasternak died, and the worn kitchen table where Pasternak lifted toasts of vodka...
...DIED. Yevgeni Kharitonov, 40, Russian poet and playwright; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Last year, with six other Soviet writers, Kharitonov sought to form a literary club and publish an experimental journal; the KGB seized their unpublished manuscripts. Kharitonov once wrote ironically that writers need restrictions because "violating them provides the nerve...
...dispel the notion of some people that anyone will survive a nuclear war? How can we as doctors influence people to prevent any further buildup of nuclear arms?" These are not the questions of an American pacifist but of Dr. Yevgeni Chazov, the Soviet Union's deputy minister of health and an official physician to President Leonid Brezhnev. Moreover, Chazov's view is at variance with some statements by Soviet officials implying that since fewer Soviet citizens are likely to die in an atomic holocaust than Americans, the U.S.S.R. would therefore...
...Yevgeni Liberman Columbus