![]() ![]() “For my part, if I can hope that everything will remain as it was before our recent exchange of words, I would be in a state of perfect bliss. “As always, I love you most deeply, but I’m sure you are neither aware of it, nor see any proof of it, and simply don’t notice,” he wrote in February, 1959. The two spent much time apart, he in Tblisi, she in Leningrad, and his letters, discovered after Olga’s death last year, often demonstrated a wish that they could be together. ![]() ![]() In them, Pasternak confirms that Olga was indeed the Lara of his novel, and he demonstrates his love for her throughout their hardships. The extent of their relationship, through Stalin’s purges and despite periods of separation and imprisonment, has now come to light in a series of love letters, manuscripts and poems shortly to go on sale - at an estimated 500,000 pounds sterling - at Christie’s in London. Zhivago,” was based on his mistress, Olga Ivinskaia, the woman he loved until he died in May, 1960. For the character of Lara in Boris Pasternak’s Nobel prize-winning masterpiece, “Dr. Zhivago and the enigmatic Lara, in the Russian revolution epic.īut in real life, too, there was love and tragedy. Those who saw the screen version will remember Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, as Dr. On screen and off, it was one of the most enduring love affairs of the 20th century. ![]()
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