A hot day at the dacha: Leonid, Rosalia, Mrs Stiebel, Boris, Lydia, and Josephine yawning
1917
André Malraux with the theatre director, V.E. Meyerhold, and Boris (left to right)
1934
Boris and a friend, A. G. Gabrichevsky
1951
Boris and the film director Sergei Eisenstein (back row), with the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and his lover, Lili Brik
1924
Boris at home at Peredelkino
1958
Boris in his coffin, with his widow Zinaida and son Leonid
1960
Boris in his study. His note on the verso says “I never come out well in photos”
1953
Boris in the Urals
1916
Boris, Nina Tabidze (widow of the Georgian poet Titsian Tabidze), his wife Zinaida and their son Leonid (right to left)
1946
Boris on a writers’ delegation to the Orel battlefield, with a war correspondent
1943
Boris reading congratulatory telegrams about the Nobel Prize, with his wife Zinaida (on the right) and Nina Tabidze
1958
Boris, school photo
1908
Boris’s funeral procession at Peredelkino, with his two sons as leading pall‑bearers
1960
Boris with Anna Akhmatova, poet and friend
1946
Boris with his first wife, Evgenia, and their son Evgeni
1927
Boris with his lover, Irina Ivinskaya
1957
Boris with his younger brother Alexander
1895
Boris with Kornei Chukovsky, the children’s author
Boris with the actor playing Mephistopheles in his translation of Goethe’s Faust
1959
Boris working in the vegetable garden of his dacha at Peredelkino
1946
Fadeyev, Secretary of the Writers’ Union, presides over a celebration for the writer Aseyev (on the right), Boris in the centre, at the Writers’ House, Moscow
1939
Leonid with his four children, left to right: Boris, Lydia, Josephine, Alexander
1908
Odessa. Boris with his mother
1891
Olga Freidenberg, Boris’s first cousin and close friend, later a classical scholar and colleague of Bakhtin
1903
Rosalia with Boris, Alexander and a friend on the beach at Odessa
1890
Rosalia with her mother and Boris, and Leonid’s mother with Alexander on her lap
1896
Zinaida, Boris’s second wife
1935