![]() ![]() Twice Olga was sentenced to work in Siberian labor camps, where she was interrogated about the book Boris was writing, but she refused to betray the man she loved. Boris’s affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga’s role in Boris’s writing process. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak-whose novel-in-progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet-he persecuted Boris’s mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya-the true tragedy behind the timeless classic, and a harrowing look at how the Russian government has treated dissidents ![]()
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