Page "Boris Pasternak" Paragraph 5

According to Olga Ivinskaya, Pasternak was deeply upset by Mandelstam's arrest.

He was concerned for his friend but he also worried that he might be blamed for fingering Mandelstam to the secret police.

Ivinskaya writes that Pasternak " raced frantically all over town, telling everybody that he was not to blame and denying responsibility for Mandelstam's disappearance, which for some reason he thought might be laid at his door.