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Pasternak was ultimately cowed not so much by threats against him as by those against his great love Olga Ivinskaya, who was the model for Lara. He feared that she would be without protection if he left Russia, and those fears were borne out when she was imprisoned after his death. Solzhenitsyn, who served eight years in Stalin's prison camps, is unlikely to break in the face of threats to himself or his relations. "No one can block the road to truth," he has said. "In order to advance it, I am willing to accept even death...
There is, however, considerable evidence that Evtushenko has denounced fellow Russians who have been imprisoned after political show trials. At a poetry reading in London in 1962, he contemptuously called Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak's great love and the model for Dr. Zhivago's Lara, a "currency smuggler." Mrs. Ivinskaya was then serving an eight-year sentence in a Soviet labor camp on a trumped-up charge of "speculation." In 1966, when hundreds of distinguished Soviet intellectuals were publicly protesting the sentencing of Sinyavsky and Daniel to eight and five years' hard labor for having allegedly written...
...arrested by Soviet secret police "and probably died somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the concentration camps of the north." Lara's fictional fate was prophetic. In 1960, after Pasternak himself died, So viet secret police arrested Olga Ivinskaya, the handsome blonde poetess who had been Pasternak's great love, soul mate, literary agent and secretary -and his model for the tender and generous Lara. It was the second time Olga had had to pay for her devotion: after the Stalin regime accused Paster nak of intellectual heresy...
...have forgotten how good food tastes!" exclaimed Donald C. MacDonald, Jr. '61 after sipping a spoonful of tomato soup, the first food he has had in seven days. MacDonald ended his week-long fast protesting the jailing of Mrs. Olga Ivinskaya, the woman believed to have been the inspiration for Lara in Dr. Zhivago, just before midnight yesterday...
MacDonald began his strike on February 1 to call attention to a recent Soviet action in which Mrs. Ivinskaya and her daughter were given long prison sentences for alleged currency fraud. Apparently, the action was prompted by her former association with the Russian poet. Pasternak once wrote that "an attack upon her is an attack...