Page "Boris Pasternak" Paragraph 25

Upon learning of his mistress ' arrest, Pasternak telephoned Liuisa Popova and asked her to come at once to Gogol Boulevard.

She found him sitting on a bench near the Palace of Soviets Metro Station.

Weeping, Pasternak told her, " Everything is finished now.

They've taken her away from me and I'll never see her again.

It's like death, even worse.