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# Boris Pasternak in his father's portrait and the poet's first memory of Leo Tolstoy
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/portret-segodniashnego-imeninnika-borisa-pasternaka-narisovannyi-ego-ottsom/
- Published: 2017-02-10T19:33:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:06:59.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Art, Books, People

A portrait of today's birthday boy, Boris Pasternak, drawn by his father. The poet's earliest childhood memory: waking at the age of four just as Leo Tolstoy was visiting his parents