Доктор Живаго

Roman Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) “Dr. Zhivago” was created for ten years (1945-1955) and is one of the most significant works of Russian literature of the second half of the 20th century.
Drawing a wide canvas of the life of the Russian intelligentsia against the backdrop of the dramatic period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Great Patriotic War, the book affects the secret of life and death, the problems of revolution and Russian history. Several plot lines are developing in the novel - the fate of the main characters are intertwined into a complex node. Dr. Zhivago was first published abroad. The novel received a full -fledged first publication in his homeland only during perestroika - in 1988