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
Ivinskaya in 1989
Isadora Duncan
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Angela Isadora Duncan was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. Born and rai
Olga Ivinskaya
…role to that of other famous muses for Russian writers: "As Pushkin would not be complete without Anna Kern, and Yesenin would be nothing without Isadora Duncan, so Pasternak would not be Pasternak without Olga Ivinskaya, who was his inspiration for 'Doctor Zhivago.'" Her daughter, Irina Emelianova, who emigrated…
Duncan c. 1906–1912
Photo by Arnold Genthe of Duncan performing barefoot during her 1915–1918 American tour
Abraham Walkowitz's Isadora Duncan #29, one of many works of art she inspired
Anna, Lisa and Margot, "Isadorables"