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# The legend of a Kremlin messenger at Pasternak's dacha in Peredelkino
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/s-domom-pasternaka-v-peredelkino-konechno-sviazan-tselyi-legendarnyi-svod/
- Published: 2019-10-09T13:39:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:05:44.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Museums, Observations, People, Humour

Pasternak's house in Peredelkino, of course, comes wreathed in an entire body of legend. As a child I was very fond of this dacha and gave little thought to how real many of the stories told about it might be. Who could think of criticism when people such as Alla Demidova gathered here! But one parable, marvellous in its naivety, has stayed with me: a man came to Pasternak from the Kremlin with a dispatch and asked him to sign a certain letter of denunciation, and Pasternak refused, saying: better that they kill me and my son be left without a father than that he have a traitor for a father, and then threw the man with the denunciation down the stairs. So not only did he refuse the courier entry across the threshold, he also gave him a thorough drubbing, which sounds rather ambiguous nowadays, does it not? But the most interesting thing about the staircase is that there are only three steps. So, all told, he threw him down three steps.