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 ...

Others, like Georges Nivat, who fell in love with the enchantress Irina Ivinskaya, daughter of Olga Ivinskaya (‘Lara’), Pasternak’s last love, were so terrified and discouraged that they gave up and ...

Olga de Amaral (born 1932) is a Colombian textile and visual artist known for her large-scale abstract works made with fibers and covered in gold and/or silver leaf. Because of her ability to ...