Dr zhivago book5/22/2023 She was duly carted off to the Lubyanka, the terrifying prison that was only five storeys high but, as a mirthless Muscovite joke had it, was still the city’s tallest building because from it you could ‘see all the way to Siberia’.Īnna Pasternak is certain that Olga was the model for the spirited Lara Guichard (pictured, played by Keira Knightley), with whom the novel’s hero, the doctor, Yury Zhivago, becomes infatuated Since Pasternak refused to divorce his second wife Zinaida, Olga did not enjoy the protection of his name. For the secret police, however, Olga was fair game. The affair was soon in full swing, each besotted with the other.īut there were further obstacles, not least in the form of the ruthless Stalinist regime, which routinely persecuted writers and intellectuals.įortunately, Stalin also was a fan of Pasternak’s work, and refused to have him arrested. Never mind that he was married with two sons. So when he turned up in her office and took an immediate, twinkly-eyed interest in her, she practically swooned. She was a bright twice-widowed mother-of-two, and pretty with it Pasternak was 56 and married for the second time when he met Olga, 34, an editorial assistant at the literary magazine for which Pasternak wrote.
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