Journalist Sergio D’Angelo, who smuggled the manuscript of Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR and first published it in 1957, has died in Italy at the age of 100.
Recall that the novel itself was written by Pasternak in the period from 1945 to 1955. After being translated into Italian and published, the novel became the property of world literature. Pasternak himself was awarded the Nobel Prize for this novel in 1958, which his son Yevgeny received for his father only in 1989.
Sergio D’Angelo worked as a radio journalist in Moscow and saw Pasternak often. He called the process of exporting the manuscript “the adventure of his life.”
The death of the journalist was reported by the Feltrinelli publishing house, which published Doctor Zhivago in 1957.