Pasternak's first books of verse went unnoticed. After four months there and a trip to Italy, he returned to Russia and decided to dedicate himself to literature. By 1912 he had renounced music as his calling in life and went to the University of Marburg, Germany, to study philosophy. Under the influence of the composer Scriabin, Pasternak took up the study of musical composition for six years from 1904 to 1910. Pasternak's education began in a German Gymnasium in Moscow and was continued at the University of Moscow.
Though his parents were both Jewish, they became Christianized, first as Russian Orthodox and later as Tolstoyan Christians. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born in Moscow to talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy's works, his mother a well-known concert pianist.
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