Editing Boris Pasternak (section)

=== Olga Freidenberg ===
In 1910 Pasternak was reunited with his cousin [[Olga Freidenberg]] (1890–1955). They had shared the same nursery but had been separated when the Freidenberg family moved to [[Saint Petersburg]]. They fell in love immediately but were never lovers. The romance, however, is made clear from their letters, Pasternak writing:
{{blockquote|You do not know how my tormenting feeling grew and grew until it became obvious to me and to others. As you walked beside me with complete detachment, I could not express it to you. It was a rare sort of closeness, as if we two, you and I, were in love with something that was utterly indifferent to both of us, something that remained aloof from us by virtue of its extraordinary inability to adapt to the other side of life.}}
The cousins' initial passion developed into a lifelong close friendship. From 1910 Pasternak and Freidenberg exchanged frequent letters, and their correspondence lasted over 40 years until 1954. The cousins last met in 1936.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://ivka.rsuh.ru/binary/85345_30.1476388407.9268.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ivka.rsuh.ru/binary/85345_30.1476388407.9268.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live|title=Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly|author=Nina V. Braginskaya|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0-19-108965-7|editor1=Rosie Wyles |editor2=Edith Hall|editor2-link=Edith Hall |pages=286–312|translator=Zara M. Tarlone|chapter=Olga Freidenberg: A Creative Mind Incarcerated}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/23/books/books-of-the-times-228311.html|title=BOOKS OF THE TIMES|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=23 June 1982}}</ref>