Doctor Zhivago (1957) (edit title/settings)

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• Yuri Andreievich Zhivago: A sensitive and poetic doctor who is thrown into the brutality of the Russian Revolution and WWI. He is married to Tonya Gromeko, but is deeply in love with Lara. (as a child, called Yura; affectionately, Yurochka) is the son of Andrei Zhivago, a profligate, and Maria Nikolaievna Zhivago.
• Larissa Feodorovna Guishar: More simply known as "Lara", she is married to Pasha Antipov who later disappears with the war. She falls deeply in love with Yuri. She is the daughter of a Russianized, widowed Frenchwoman, Amalia Karlovna Guishar. Rodion (Rodia) is her younger brother.
• Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko: The wife of Yuri, they lived together as children after Yuri's parents died. (Tonia) is the daughter of Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, a professor of chemistry, and his wife Anna Ivanavna, whose father was the landowner and ironmaster Ivan Ernestovich Krueger. As young people, Yurii Andreievich Zhivago and Misha Gordon, son of a lawyer, live with the Gromekos.
• Pavel Pavlovich Antipov: Started out as an idealistic young student involved in Bolshevism. Ended up being married to Lara, but he is forced to join the war, and disappears. Lara assumes him to be dead. (Pasha, Pashenka), Son of of a railway worker, Pavel Ferapontovich Antipov. After his father's exile to Siberia, he lives with the Tiverzins (Kuprian Savelievich and his mother, Marfa Gavrilovna), another revolutionary family of railway workers.
• Viktor Ippolitovich Komarovsky: A powerful lawyer with political connections. Lara ends up in an affair with him (before marrying Pasha), in which she is both repulsed and attracted by him. Was Andrei Zhivago's lawyer and is Madame Guishar's lover and adviser.
• Yevgraf Zhivago: The illegitimate half-brother of Yuri, he has power and influence with the Bolsheviks that helps his brother avoid arrest in several situations.
• Larissa Feodorovna Guishar: She is the daughter of a widowed French woman.named Amalia Karlovana
• Yurii Andreievich: The novel's protagonist, a poet-physician, also called Zhivago
• Yura: Add a description of this character.
• Yuril Andreievich: Another form of nomenclature for Zhivago
• Tonia: A form of nomenclature for Zhivago's first wife and childhood comrade, Tonya.
• Misha Gordon
• Antonina Alexandrovna
• Larisa Feodorovna
• Anna Ivanovna
• Antipova
• Alexander Alexandrovich
• Nikolai Nikolaievich
• Samdeviatov
• Markel
• Mary Magdalene
• Osip Gimazetdinovich Galiullin: (Yusupka) Son of Gimazetdin, the janitor at the Tiverzin's tenement; he is a Moslem.
• Strelnikov
• Krueger
• Marina
• Yurochka
• Sima
• Innokentii Dudorov: (Nika). Son of Dementii Dudorov, a revolutionary terrorist, and a Georgian princess.
• Victor Ippolitovich
• Mikulitsyn
• Kolchak
• Madame Guishar
• Katenka
• Yurii Andrelevich
• Tiverzin
• Christina
• Pamphil
• Sasha
• Katia
• Mademoiselle
• Yuriatin
• Ivan Ivanovich
• Komarovslcy
• Demina
• Pavel Pavlovich
• Voroniuk
• Shura Shlesinger
• Lavrentii Mikhailovich Kologrivov: Rich industrialist; his wife, Serafima Fillovna; their daughters, Nadia and Lipa.
• Markel Shchapov: Porter at the Gromekos' house, and his daughter Marina (Marinka).

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• “Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!”

• “A dark muffled figure will open the door, and the promise of her nearness, unowned by anyone in the world and guarded and cold as a white northern night, will reach him like the first wave of the sea as you run down over the sandy beach in the dark.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Moscow
• Russia
• Siberia
• Varykino
• Sashenka
• Meliuzeievo
• Vasia
• Zybushino
• Varyldno
• Ustinia
• Montenegro
• Duplyanka
• Paris
• Biriuchi
• Kolia
• Kuteiny
• Krestovozdvizhensk
• Pskov
• White
• Flour Town
• Marfa
• Petrograd
• Yusupka
• Gospel
• China
• Mongolia
• Pazhinsk
• Kubarikha

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Pnin, and followed by The Wonderful O.

Preceded by Perfume, and followed by Gormenghast.

Followed by Anatomy of a Murder.

Preceded by Exodus, and followed by Hawaii.

Preceded by The Captive Mind, and followed by The Lonely Crowd.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Boris Pasternak (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Max Hayward (Translator) - The first translator of the book along with Manya Harari
2. Manya Harari (Translator) - The first translator of the book along with Max Hayward
3. Angela Livingstone
4. B. V. Sokolov

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Nobel prize (1958: Literature, great)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PG3476.P27
• Dewey: 891.7342

Notes for Parents edit see section history

A good gift to a child. They may not understand some potion. However, it portrays the revolutionary period in graphic detail

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Political
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Dr. Zhivago (1965) (IMDb): Staring Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Julie Christie, and Geraldine Chaplin