SEELANGS Digest - 27 Jan 2007 to 28 Jan 2007 - Special issue (#2007-38)

[Zielinski]

Marina Aptekman:

> Just curious - does anyone kow anything about Ida Vysotsky, the
> daughter of prominent tea merchant and the girl to whom Pasternak's
> "Marburg" was written? He biography in most books ends right after her
> break with pasternak - but what happened later to her? Wyssotzky Tea
> now exists in Israel but she moved to Palestine after revolution too?
> Or did she live in Paris or America?

She married in 1917 a banker from Kiev, Emmanuel Fel'dzer, in 1918 they left
for Siberia, in the twenties she was living in Berlin, in the thirties in
Paris; she also functioed as an intermediary in the correspondence between
Pasternak and Rilke. She was still alive in 1975. See Guy de Mallac,
Pasternak and Marburg, "Russian Review" 38, 4, 327ff and Jacqueline de
Proyart, Une amitié d'enfance, Colloque Boris Pasternak, Cerisy-la-Salle,
September 1975.

Hope that helps,

Jan Zielinski

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