Boris Pasternak (10 February 1890 – 30 May 1960) was the favorite poet of Mikhail Vartanov‘s who quoted Pasternak’s poem August in Parajanov: The Last Spring. The words of that poem were exceedingly fitting, but there was a deeper meaning also because Pasternak (like Parajanov and Vartanov) was persecuted by the Soviet government. (Pasternak was forced to refuse the Nobel Prize for his novel Doctor Zhivago, which was later made into the Oscar winning Hollywood film by David Lean).
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute 
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