Summary
Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
The time of the novel "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak is the period from 1903 to 1945, and the core of the story is the events that mainly shape the lives of two characters: the doctor Yuri Zhivago and his fatal love Larisa Antipova. From this point of view, it is about the so-called a novel of space and time. The plot covers the key stages of Russian history in the first half of the 20th century: the 1905 revolution, the First World War, the 1917 revolution, the civil war, the establishment of the socialist order, and the Second World War. Unpredictable, dramatic, war and revolutionary events scattered the heroes across vast Russian territories, from the border with Austria-Hungary through Moscow to the Urals and the Far East.
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