This book is based on recordings of the author’s conversations with Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak’s last love and muse. Readers interested in the work of the great Russian poet will be interested to know how the brilliant poems from the novel “Doctor Zhivago” (the prototype of the main character was Ivinskaya) were born, how the poetic cycle “When It Goes Wild” was created, how work went on on the brilliant translation of Goethe’s “Faust” .The memoirs of B. Mansurov contain truly sensational information about the fate of Ivinskaya’s unique archive, Pasternak’s will and the poet’s prophecies that came true. For the widest range of lovers of Russian literature.