Boris Pasternak
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.
Pasternak in 1959
Boris (left) with his brother Alex; painting by their father, Leonid Pasternak
Pasternak c. 1908
Boris Pasternak in 1910, by his father Leonid Pasternak
Olga Ivinskaya
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Olga Vsevolodovna Ivinskaya was a Soviet poet and writer. She is best-known as friend and lover of Nobel Prize-winning writer Boris Pasternak during the last 13 years of his life and the inspiration f
Boris Pasternak
…times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory." In October 1946, the twice-married Pasternak met Olga Ivinskaya, a 34-year-old single mother employed by Novy Mir. Deeply moved by her resemblance to his first love Ida Vysotskaya, Pasternak gave Ivinskaya several…
Ivinskaya in 1989