Larisa Antipova’s disappearance is the final, unresolved loss in her story: after helping sort Yurii Andreievich Zhivago’s papers and speaking with Evgraf Andreievich Zhivago, she goes out one day and does not return. The narration supposes that she was arrested, then can offer only a conjecture about her death in a northern camp. Her fate remains unverified, swallowed by the same machinery of anonymous records and forgotten lives that makes disappearance difficult to distinguish from death.

Circumstances

Larisa stays for several days on Kamerger Street after Yurii’s funeral. She helps begin the sorting of his papers, but the work is completed without her. Before she vanishes, she also speaks with Evgraf and tells him an important fact; the passage does not specify what she tells him. This sequence places her last known actions amid mourning, the preservation of Yurii’s writings, and a private disclosure whose contents remain outside the account.

Disappearance

One day Larisa goes out and does not come back. The narration states that she must have been arrested in the street at that time, but presents no witnessed arrest, named captor, or subsequent contact. Her disappearance is thus reported through absence: the return that does not occur becomes the only certain event, while its immediate cause is inferred.

Uncertain Fate

The account extends its inference to a likely death, imagining Larisa forgotten as a nameless number on a list that was later mislaid, in one of the many mixed or women’s concentration camps in the north. This is not confirmation of where she was taken or how she died. The passage makes uncertainty part of the event’s meaning: Larisa’s individual identity, established through her relationships and actions, is set against the bureaucratic anonymity of a number on a lost list.

Narrative Significance

The disappearance is narrated in a brief, stark sequence after the funeral and the unfinished sorting of Yurii’s papers. That contrast gives the episode its force: a life and a body of writings are being gathered into an account, while Larisa herself passes beyond recovery or reliable testimony. The narrative closes not with a confirmed death or a farewell, but with the possibility that she was arrested and the image of a record lost among countless others.