This anthology presents the writings of Lydia Pasternak Slater (1902–1989), sister of Boris Pasternak. Lydia Pasternak Slater lived successively in Russia, Germany and England, and wrote in all three languages. Her poetry is largely lyrical, occasionally humorous and always original and striking. She also wrote a number of short stories and later in life became widely known as a translator of Boris Pasternak’s poems. The anthology includes her critical articles about her brother’s work and about the art of translation.

Anna Sergeeva-Klyatis is a Lecturer at the Department of Literary and Artistic Criticism and Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Fedor Poljakov is Professor of Russian literature at the University of Vienna. Nicolas Pasternak Slater is a retired physician and translator of the work of Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy.