This volume contains the core collection of lyrical works by the major Russian poet and Nobel Prize laureate Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890–1960): nine poetry collections—including the poems from the novel *Doctor Zhivago*—as well as the autobiographical essay *People and Situations*. As Dmitry Likhachev observed, the spiritualizing power of Pasternak’s verse compels the reader to both think and feel. No matter how complex the poet’s journey—from the ‘lofty inarticulateness’ of his early, impassioned poems to the ‘stunning simplicity’ of his later lyrics—he has remained, for generations of readers, a beloved and significant figure, akin to a pure note amidst the deafening clamor of the era.