Anna Pasternak. Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
EPIGRAPH
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE. Straightening Cobwebs
1. A Girl from a Different World
2. Mother Land and Wonder Papa
3. The Cloud Dweller
4. Cables under High Tension
5. Marguerite in the Dungeon
6. Cranes Over Potma
7. A Fairy Tale
8. The Italian Angel
9. The Fat is in the Fire
10. The Pasternak Affair
11. A Beast at Bay
12. The Truth of Their Agony
EPILOGUE. Think of Me Then
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND NOTE ON SOURCES
PICTURE SECTION
INDEX
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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Audrey Pasternak
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Vinogradov died in 1942 from lung congestion, leaving Olga a widow for the second time. ‘I had already gone through more than enough horrors,’ she later wrote: ‘The suicide of Ira’s father, my first husband Ivan Vasilyevich Yemelyanov; the death of my second husband, Alexander Petrovich Vinogradov – who had died in my arms in hospital. I had had many passing affairs and disappointments in love.’ Olga concluded in her confessional letter to Boris: ‘If you have been a cause of tears [she was still addressing him as ‘you’ as opposed to ‘thou’] so have I! Judge for yourself the things I have to say in reply to “I love you” – which gives me more joy than anything that has ever happened to me.’
The next morning, when she went down from her apartment to work, Boris was already waiting for her by an empty fountain in their courtyard. She gave him the notebook and eager to read it, he embraced her and left soon afterwards. Olga was hardly able to concentrate at work all day, jittery inside as to how he would react to the highly personal details she had chronicled. If on some level, her confessional was a bid to push him away, she failed miserably, underestimating Boris’s admiration for the plight of wronged womanhood.
