Their works, like apples picked while they are green, have ripened of themselves, mellowing gradually and growing richer in meaning.” In Zhivago, he has Yuri (Zhivago) state: “What I have come to like best in the whole of Russian literature is the childlike Russian quality of Pushkin and Chekhov, their modest reticence in such high-sounding matters as the ultimate purpose of mankind or their own salvation. That the peace-loving Pasternak should follow in Chekhov’s footsteps should not surprise us. In this present article I will consider Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago, as a Russian whose environmental sensibilities followed that of Chekhov and who would disdain Putin’s ecocide practices. Thirdly, I indicated that Putin’s Ukrainian invasion produced ecocide. In three previous essays, I first wrote “Anton Chekhov: Environmental Prophet for Our Planet.” Then I contrasted the Russia of the macho war-making Putin with that of the Russian writers Tolstoy, V. Boris Pasternak, portrait by Yury Annenkov, 1921
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