Boris Pasternak met Olga Ivinskaya one icy October day in 1946 at Novy Mir, the Soviet literary magazine where she worked.Their courtship moved at a furious pace. He phoned her every day at her ...

Boris Pasternak with his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, and her daughter, Irina, in the late 1950s. Pasternak channeled his love for Ivinskaya, and his frustration with their relationship ...

What price love? In Lara , Anna Pasternak chronicles her famous great-uncle Boris's relationship with his mistress, Olga Ivinskaya — whose connection with the author landed her in the gulags.

What price love? In Lara, Anna Pasternak chronicles her famous great-uncle Boris's relationship with his mistress, Olga Ivinskaya — whose connection with the author landed her in the gulags.

The Russian novelist Boris Pasternak's magnum opus "Doctor Zhivago" -- which won him the Nobel Prize the Soviet authorities would not allow him to accept -- is a prime example of this phenomenon.

Except that now it seems that the real-life Lara, Pasternak’s longtime mistress, muse and literary assistant, Olga Ivinskaya, informed on him to the KGB. In 1961, […] Skip to content ...

Love letters written by Boris Pasternak to the woman who was his inspiration for Lara, the heroine of his book “Dr. Zhivago,” will be auctioned Nov. 27 in London, it was announced Monda… ...

In 1934, Joseph Stalin himself called Pasternak to scold him for trying to get a poet friend of his released, and Pasternak's friend and lover Olga Ivinskaya was sent to the gulag for three years ...

Ivinskaya, longtime companion of author Boris Pasternak and the model for Lara in his novel, Doctor Zhivago, has died. She was 82 and was buried Tuesday in a religious ceremony in a church in ...

Lara chronicles the horrifically steep costs for Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak's mistress, muse, and model for Yuri Zhivago's lover in Doctor Zhivago (alluringly played by Julie Christie in ...