A strange and unusual woman was Olga Ivinskaya. She did not know how and did not want to complain about fate, was, contrary to her, cheerful, cheerful, easy. Arousing excitement and more passionate feelings in men's hearts, Olga Ivinskaya lived. Her biography will be interesting in the breaks of a difficult life path.
Childhood and youth
Olga Born in Tambov in 1912. Her father was a White Guard who disappeared somewhere unknown. Mother, Maria Nikolaevna, got married again, and it was subsequently customary for Olga to follow this pattern of behavior.
Olga Ivinskaya was beautiful and quickly carried away. Novels were started easily, just as marriages were easily created. After graduating from the faculty of editorial staff at the Moscow Institute in 1934, Olga quickly married the director of the school for working youth Ivan Emelyanov, but decided to part with her husband when she met Alexander Vinogradov. And the husband, not having suffered parting with his wife, hanged himself. A funeral table was still set, the guests had not yet dispersed, and a car was already standing by the house where Olga Ivinskaya lived, which was ready to take her to a new life.
Second marriage
At this time, Olga Vsevolodovna worked in the magazine "Airplane", which was led by her second husband. He turned out to be a man with a sharp temper. When he did not like the behavior of Olga's mother, he quickly wrote a denunciation on her, and Maria Nikolaevna was arrested.
Having learned from the lawyer who was to blame for the arrest, Olga Vsevolodovna threatened her husband that she would leave him. He panicked dismissed the lawyer and began to defend his mother-in-law on her own. As a result, she received six years of camps, in which she spent four years and was released ahead of schedule. But there was a war, and the prisoners were not released. Olga Ivinskaya herself went to the camp near Gorky to pick up a half-dead woman who might not have survived to victory. By this time, the culprit of her imprisonment had already died in 1942, at the same time the son of Dima was born. Mother returned a completely emaciated and old woman who, however, did not lose her charm and beauty and married a third time after the war ended.
In the editorial office of the magazine "New World"
In December 1946, B. Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya met in the editorial office of the magazine. The 56-year-old poet looked at the young beauty with a heavy demanding look. He was certainly good. Light, golden, fluffy hair, huge eyes in which he involuntarily drowned, slender graceful legs - the very softness and eternal femininity appeared before Pasternak.
So flint hit the chair, and a fire caught fire, which then turned into an unquenchable flame.
B. Pasternak
The first wife of the writer was the artist Eugene Lurie, who could not create a warm family atmosphere. And eight years later, the poet met his ideal - Zinaida Nikolaevna Neigauz. He courted so persistently that she left her husband nowhere. Pasternak did not even have his own corner. But through the efforts of the wife, they made a quiet monastery in which to relax. But the poet needs a shock. They became Olga Ivinskaya. Boris Pasternak, having met her, completely lost his head. Having begun to meet purely platonically, after four months they remain for the first time together in Olga’s apartment. The wife stoically makes her husband’s decision - let him live where he wants, so long as their marriage is preserved.
First arrest
Three years after meeting B. Pasternak, in 1949, Olga was taken to the Lubyanka. Interrogations are underway, she is accused of being connected with the “English spy,” that is, with Pasternak. At this time, she is in her fifth month of pregnancy. She lost her child after suffering. The poet, who was preparing to become a father, was very worried. He wanted to pick up the baby and raise him in his family. Olga was sent to Mordovia, to the Gulag transit camp. There was hard work, after which, without losing its beauty, only losing weight very much, she returned to Moscow in 1953.
The novel "Doctor Zhivago"
Pasternak began writing a novel in 1945. Ten years later, he was ready for publication, but in the USSR it was impossible to publish it. The novel was released in Italy in 1957, and a scandal erupted as it appeared in both Holland and Britain. And like a pocket beech, the American CIA handed it out to Russian tourists. The persecution of the poet in the Soviet press began. Olga supported him, but the persecution intensified after the award of the Nobel Prize to the author in 1958. In delicate terms, he refused to accept her. But he was very worried and even wanted to take his own life.
He did not know that the end was near. In 1960, the poet was gone. So Olga Ivinskaya spent her years with Pasternak and later wrote a book of memoirs about it. With interruptions, they accumulated fourteen years. The poet forever captured this love, and this passion impresses with the glow of wires under current.
After the death of Pasternak
In 1960, Olga Vsevolodovna was again arrested. She is charged with smuggling. But the fact is that Pasternak’s fees for publishing and republishing Doctor Zhivago abroad were transferred to her. Her and daughter Irina Emelyanova are condemned. Ivinskaya was sentenced to eight years and sent to a colony. But she was released ahead of schedule in 1964. In the 70s, she wrote the book "In Captivity of Time".
It was published, of course, not in the USSR, but in Paris. She lived in an apartment that she bought for the fees received under Pasternak’s will. She was visited by the
actors of the Taganka theater, among whom was Vladimir Vysotsky, she also sang Alexander Galich. Olga Vsevolodovna passed away in old age in 1995. She was eighty-three years old.