Author. Olga Vsevolodovna Ivinskaya received notoriety as a 20th century author and for her very public relationship with 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, Boris Pastemak. In 1946 she met and fell in love with Pastemak, who was 22 years her senior and married. Before meeting him, she was an admirer of his poetry. Born the daughter of a school teacher of Polish-German ancestry, she graduated from the Editorial Workers Institute in Moscow in 1936. After graduation, she found employment as the editor of various literary magazines. Finally, she accepted the position, at the Moscow offices of the literary magazine "Novy Mir" or "New World." She married twice, becoming a widow twice. Her 1936 marriage ended with the suicide of her husband in 1939. The couple had a daughter. Her 1941 marriage ended with her husband being killed in World War II. The couple had a son. In 1948 she left her position at the magazine to become Pastermak's secretary. She knew that he would not leave his second wife, Zinaida Nikolaevna Neuhaus. She was taught by Pastemak how to translate poetry from other languages into Russian. In October of 1949 she was arrested for being "an accomplice to the spy" and sent to a force camp from July of 1950 to 1953. She was tortured and had a miscarriage while imprisoned. It was made clear to the public that she was arrested to censor Pastemak. In vain attempts, he went to authorities several times to have her released. At Lubyanka Prison she was stripped of her clothing and belongings and put on suicide watch. She was one of "prisoners of conscience" featured in "Persecution 1961," a book by Peter Benenson, which helped to establish Amnesty International. On March 5, 1953, while she was still in the labor camp, USSR Prime Minister Joseph Stalin died of a heart attack. She was released the next month after serving half her sentence. She returned to Pastemak. Some sources state that she was at Pastermak's bedside when he died, but other sources said she came later to his home. On August 18, 1960 after Pastemak' s death, she was arrested again for her involvement of having "Doctor Zhivago" published. She served four years of an eight-year sentence. Her daughter was imprisoned for two years for her involvement. The KGB raided her home taking documents including Pastermak's manuscripts and "the most delicate letters" to her from Pastemak. In the late 1980s all the "crimes" against the government were erased, yet she never got the priceless documents back even after going to the Supreme Court. These documents are in the Russian Archives. Her daughter, Irina Emelyanova, who emigrated to France in 1985, published a book of memoirs about her mother's affair with Pasternak. In 1992, Ivinskaya released a small book of memories. She died of cancer. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the archives were opened and documents show, like most victims of torture, she was forced to cooperate with the KGB. Although she is considered a poet, little of her poems are still available. She did write a poem, with each of the six verses starting "I love when there's a blizzard in the world," which has been translated to English.