Doctor Zhivago detailed summary. Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago": analysis of the work

1. Yuri Zhivago — main character Romana, a doctor, writes poetry in his spare time.
2. Tonya Zhivago (nee Gromeko) - Yuri's wife.
3. Lara Antipova- sister of mercy, wife of Antipov.
4. Pavel Antipov- revolutionary, Lara's husband.
5. Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky- a prominent Moscow lawyer.
6. Alexander Gromeko- Professor, deals with agronomic issues, Tony's father.
7. Anna Gromeko- Tony's mother.
8. Mikhail Gordon- philologist, Yuri's best friend.
9. Innokenty Dudorov- Studied with Zhivago at the gymnasium.
10. Osip Galiullin- general of the "whites".
11. Evgraf Zhivago- Major General, half-brother of the main character.

Yuri Zhivago and the Gromeko family

Yuri Zhivago was raised by his uncle, Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin. After his departure to St. Petersburg, Yura lived in the Gromeko family of educated and intelligent people. Alexander Alexandrovich was a professor who dealt with agricultural issues.

His wife, Anna Ivanovna, was a kind and sweet woman. Yura got along well with their daughter Tonya, and Misha Gordon was his best friend. In Gromeko’s house, a society of people close to them in interests often gathered.

When there was a concert in their house, Alexander Alexandrovich was asked to go to an urgent call. Amalia Karlovna Guichard, his good friend, tried to commit suicide. Despite the annoyance that he was called so suddenly, Gromeko agrees.

The boys, Yuri and Misha, persuade him to take them with him. The professor agrees, and when they arrive at their rooms, he leaves them to wait for him in the hallway.

The boys heard Guichard's complaints about the suspicions that forced her to take such a step, but they turned out to be far-fetched. At this time, a stately man of 40 years old comes out from behind the partition, approaches the chair, and wakes up the girl. Yuri is fascinated by their communication, which looks like a conspiratorial one. It seems to him that this man is a puppeteer, and the girl is his puppet.

Once outside, Gordon tells his friend that he once saw the man while riding with his father on the train. That man was with Yura’s father and kept getting him drunk, and then Zhivago Sr. threw himself off the train.

Christmas tree at Sventitsky's

This girl was the daughter of Amalia Karlovna, Lara Guichard. She was 16 years old, but she looked older than her age, and it was painful for her to feel that she was being treated like a child. The man was the famous lawyer Viktor Ippolitovich Komarovsky. The girl’s mother needed him not only as an assistant in her affairs, and Lara knew this very well.

Komarovsky took a liking to the girl and began to court her. Lara gave in to his advances, but later regretted it, because it seemed to her that he had enslaved her. Yura and Larisa were destined to meet under unusual circumstances.

Zhivago and Tonya were invited to the Sventitskys’ Christmas tree. Anna Ivanovna was seriously ill, so before they left, she called them to her place and said that they were made for each other.

It was true - Tonya understood Yura like no one else. When they were driving to the holiday, the young man saw a candle burning in the window. What he saw began to form the future poem “The Candle Was Burning...”.

This candle was lit by Lara, who at that moment was telling Pasha Antipov, who was in love with her, that they needed to get married as soon as possible. After this conversation, the girl went to the Sventitskys, where Yura and Tonya were already dancing. Among the guests was Komarovsky, who was playing cards.

When it was about 2 am, a shot was heard. It was Lara who shot at Komarovsky, but missed and the bullet hit the high-ranking official. When the girl was led through the hall, Yuri was shocked that it turned out to be the same one he had seen in the hallway.

And then there was this lawyer who was somehow involved in the death of his father. When Yura and Tonya returned home, Anna Ivanovna was no longer alive.

Lara, thanks to the intercession of Komarovsky, was saved from trial, but because of what happened, she suffered a severe nervous shock. No one was allowed to see her, but Kologrivov, in whose house she worked as a governess, managed to get through to her and give her the money she had earned.

Everything was fine with the girl, but her frivolous brother Rodya lost a large sum and was ready to shoot himself if his sister did not help him out. The Kologrivovs rescued her, and after giving the required amount to her brother, Lara took the revolver from him.

But the girl could not repay the debt to the benefactors, because secretly from Pasha, she sent money to his father and paid for his room.

Lara was tormented by the situation with the Kologrivovs, which seemed wrong to her. She couldn’t think of anything else but to borrow money from Komarovsky.

It became painful for her to live. When she arrived at the Sventitskys’ holiday, the lawyer pretended not to notice the poor girl and gave Lara’s familiar smiles to another girl. This was beyond what Lara could bear, which is why that unpleasant incident at the ball happened.

Moving of the Antipovs and Zhivago to the Urals

When Lara recovered, she and Pasha got married. After the ceremony, at night, they had a serious conversation in which Lara told everything about her life. Pasha was unpleasantly surprised by this. They moved to the Urals to Yuryatino.

In this city, a husband and wife taught at the same gymnasium. Lara was happy: she liked family life and housework. Soon their daughter Katenka was born. Pasha constantly doubted his wife’s love. Their family happiness seemed fake to him.

Therefore, when the war came, Antipov enrolled in officer courses. After they passed, he went to the front and disappeared without a trace. Lara decided to find her husband herself, so she became a nurse and went after her husband.

Second Lieutenant Galiulin, who met Pasha from childhood, said that he saw Pasha die. Meanwhile, Yura and Tonya got married. But the war began, and Zhivago was taken to the front.

He didn't even have time to spend time with his newborn son. Yuri saw how the army was defeated, how deserters went on a rampage, and when he returned to Moscow, he found decline and destruction. Everything he saw changed his attitude towards the revolution.

It was not possible for Zhivago’s family to survive in Moscow, so it was decided to go to the Urals to Varykino, where Tony’s mother had an estate, which was not far from Yuryatin. Their trip passed through places where robber gangs ruled.

They also passed through regions where the uprisings were brutally suppressed by a certain Strelnikov, whose name inspired horror and awe in the inhabitants. He was a revolutionary commissar, and the troops under his command pushed back the army of the “Whites”, commanded by Galiulin.

In Varykino, they had to stay with the estate manager Mikulitsyn, and then settle in an outbuilding for the servants. They gardened, tidied up their house, and Zhivago sometimes received sick people.

Unexpectedly for everyone, Yuri's half-brother Evgraf comes to them - he was a young man, active and occupying an important position among the revolutionaries.

He is grateful to Yuri that he at one time refused the inheritance in his favor, and thereby saved him and his mother. Evgraf helps the Zhivago family improve their situation. Meanwhile, it turns out that Tonya is pregnant.

After some time, Yuri was able to visit Yuryatin and go to the library. Unexpectedly, he meets Antipova, with whom life had previously confronted him at the front.

Lara tells Zhivago her story, and reveals to him that Strelnikov is actually her husband Antipov, who escaped from captivity, changed his last name and stopped all communication with his family. When he dropped shells on the city, he did not even inquire about the further fate of his wife and daughter.

Yuri and Lara felt kindred spirits in each other and they realized that they loved each other. But for each of them this love was complicated by the fact that Antipova continued to love her husband, and Zhivago loved his wife.

Such a double life weighed on him, he could no longer deceive Tonya, so after another meeting with Lara, Yuri made a firm decision to tell his wife about everything and not meet with Antipova again.

Captivity by the “red” partisans and further life with Lara

On the way home, his path is blocked by three armed men, who inform him that he is being taken into Livery Mikulitsyn’s detachment because he is a doctor. There was a lot of work for Yuri: in the winter he treated rashes, in the summer dysentery and constantly the wounded caused trouble.

Before his commander Liverius, Zhivago did not hide his attitude towards the revolution. He believed that the realization of ideals was still far away, and for lofty revolutionary speeches, people paid with thousands of lives and destruction, and in the end, the end did not justify the means. Yuri was with the Reds for two years, but he still managed to escape.

When the doctor reached Yuryatin, the “whites” left him, leaving him “red”. Zhivago was wild, exhausted, unwashed, but he was still able to reach Antipova’s house. Lara was not at home, but in the hiding place for the keys, the doctor finds a note in which the woman says that she went to Varykino to meet him there. Zhivago had difficulty thinking; he could only light the stove, eat and fall into a deep sleep.

When he woke up, he realized that someone had undressed him, washed him and put him in a clean bed. Zhivago took a long time to restore his strength, but thanks to Lara’s efforts he is recovering. But Yuri cannot return to Moscow until he recovers completely. To survive in the new regime, the doctor gets a job at Gubernia Health, and Antipova gets a job at Gubono.

But the residents of Yuryatin still perceive Zhivago as a stranger, at this time Strelnikov’s authority has been shaken, and in the city they begin to look for everyone objectionable to the revolution.

Yuri receives a letter from Toni, in which she reports that she and her children (they have a daughter, Masha) and father are in Moscow, but they will soon be sent abroad. But Zhivago realizes that he no longer feels the same love for Tonya as before. Therefore, he tells her to build her life as she wants.

Meanwhile, Lara fears that she will be taken away as an objection to the revolution, Zhivago is in the same position. They try to find a way out of a difficult situation.

Arrival of Komarovsky and Strelnikov

Unexpectedly, Komarovsky arrives in Yuryatino. He was offered to become the head of the Ministry of Justice in the Far Eastern region. He knows what danger Lara and Zhivago face, so he invites them to go with him.

Yuri immediately refuses: he has long known about the role he played in Lara’s life and about his involvement in his father’s suicide. Lara also refuses. Zhivago and Antipova decided to take refuge in Varykino, because no one had lived in the village for a long time.

Lara thinks she is pregnant. Viktor Ippolitovich comes to them once again, bringing a message that Strelnikov has been sentenced to death. Now Lara must take care of her daughter if she does not want to take care of herself. Zhivago tells Antipova to leave with a lawyer.

After their departure, Yuri began to gradually lose his mind. He drank and wrote poems, which he dedicated to Lara. Later, these poems turned into discussions about man, revolution, and ideals. One evening Strelnikov suddenly comes to him.

Antipov talks about what happened to him, how he managed to escape, about Lenin, the revolution. Zhivago tells him his story, that Lara never forgot him and loved him. Pavel is in despair because now he understands how wrong he was about his wife. They finished talking only in the morning, and upon waking up, Yuri saw that Strelnikov had shot himself.

The further fate of Zhivago

After Strelnikov’s suicide, the doctor goes to Moscow, where the NEP era already reigns. He was sheltered by the former Zhivag janitor Markelov. Later, his daughter Marina will become Yuri's wife and give him two daughters. Meanwhile, Zhivago gradually loses all his medical skills and practically stops writing. But sometimes he wrote thin books that amateurs liked.

Brother Evgraf comes to his aid and arranges for him to Good work and helps strengthen his position. But one day in August, when Yuri was riding the tram to work, he became ill and died of a heart attack.

Evgraf and all his friends and acquaintances come to say goodbye to him, among whom Lara appears. A few days after the funeral, Antipova suddenly disappears: most likely, she was arrested. No one saw Lara again.

In 1943, Major General Evgraf Zhivago found Yuri and Lara’s daughter Tanya at the front. The girl had a difficult fate: an orphan, wanderings. Her uncle takes full charge of caring for her. Evgraf also collects all the poems written by his brother and compiles a collection of his works.

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Early 1900s. After the death of his mother, Yura Zhivago is raised in Moscow in a family of distant relatives of Gromeko. Yura studies at the gymnasium, and later at the university at the Faculty of Medicine. Throughout his childhood, his closest friends were with him - Misha Gordon and Gromeko's daughter Tonya.
The widow Amalia Guichard came to Moscow from the Urals with her son Rodion and daughter Lara. The paths of Lara and Yura Zhivago first crossed in their youth. Yura saw her among young people and noticed her beauty, but they did not know each other.
Yura became a doctor and married Tonya. Lara married Pavel Antipov, who was passionately in love with her.
First Goes World War. Zhivago at the front. Lara had a difficult explanation with her husband, after which he disappeared. Lara, assuming that he was at the front, signed up as a nurse and went to the front to look for him. There he and Zhivago meet again.
Russia is being shaken by revolutionary events. Lara leaves the front. Later Zhivago also leaves. There is hunger and poverty in Moscow. Zhivago falls ill with typhus. Yuri's half-brother Evgraf helps them survive. He advises them to go to the former Varykino estate, in the Urals. There they plant a vegetable garden, which saves them from hunger.
One day in the library, Yuri meets Lara. A relationship begins between them. Now Yuri understands that Lara has become a part of his life. He decides to tell his wife Tonya about this. However, he did not have time to do this. He was met on the way by partisans and forcibly taken to partisan detachment, because they need a doctor. For a long time, Zhivago is in a partisan detachment, knowing nothing about either his family or Lara. When he finds out that Civil War finished, there are no whites in the area, he leaves the detachment. His family is no longer in the Urals. He heard that they were in Moscow. He comes to Lara. Their relationship is not easy. She always remembers her husband Pavel. They both understand that they need to leave the Urals. We need to somehow get to Moscow. They are invited to the government train by an old acquaintance of Lara Komarovsky. Zhivago knows what kind of relationship Lara and Komarovsky used to have. Pride does not allow him to accept this invitation. Lara and her daughter Katya leave with Komarovsky, and Zhivago, alone, begins to slide into despair.
In the spring of 1922, Zhivago finally reached Moscow. He and his companion Vasya covered half the distance on foot. Zhivago learns that all his relatives and his wife were deported abroad. He has no hope of seeing them. He begins a life together with Marina Shchapova, who is in love with him. They had 2 daughters.
One day, Yuri accidentally met his half-brother Evgraf. His brother began to help him in every possible way: he rented a room and gave him money. Zhivago writes articles, essays, and poems. Life should get better. He joined the hospital. On the way to work he dies. And again Lara is next to him. She arrived in Moscow and decided to go to the address where her late husband Antipov once lived. But it turned out that this particular room was rented for Zhivago by his brother. Lara says goodbye forever to her great love: “Your departure is my end.” No one saw Lara again.

After the death of Maria Nikolaevna’s mother, the fate of ten-year-old Yura Zhivago is dealt with by his uncle, Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin. The boy's father, having squandered the family's million-dollar fortune, abandoned them even before his mother's death, and subsequently took his own life by jumping off a train. An eyewitness to his suicide is 11-year-old Misha Gordon, who was traveling with his father on the same train. Yura experiences the death of his mother extremely acutely; uncle with his hair cut at will the priest consoles him with conversations about God.

Yura spends the first time on Kologrivov’s estate. Here he meets 14-year-old Nika (Innocent) Dudorov, the son of a terrorist convict and an eccentric Georgian beauty.

The widow of a Belgian engineer, Amalia Karlovna Guichard, who came from the Urals, settles in Moscow. She has two children - the eldest daughter Larisa and the son Rodion, Rodya. Amalia becomes the mistress of lawyer Komarovsky, a friend of her late husband. Soon the lawyer begins to show unequivocal signs of attention to the pretty Lara, and later seduces her. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that he has a real feeling for the girl and strives to arrange her life. Nika Dudorov, a friend of her classmate Nadya Kologrivova, is also courting Lara, but he does not arouse her interest due to the similarity of characters.

On Brestskaya railway, taking place near Guichard's house, a strike begins, organized by the workers' committee. One of the organizers, road foreman Pavel Ferapontovich Antipov, is arrested. His son Pasha, a student at a real school, is taken in by the family of driver Kipriyan Tiverzin. Pasha, through his neighbor Olga Demina, meets Lara, falls in love with her and literally idolizes the girl. Lara feels much older than him psychologically and does not have reciprocal feelings for him.

Thanks to his uncle, Yura Zhivago settles in Moscow, in the family of his uncle’s friend, Professor Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko. Yura became very close friends with the professor's daughter, Tonya, and classmate Misha Gordon. Music lovers, Gromeko often organized evenings with invited musicians. On one of these evenings, cellist Tyshkevich was urgently called to the Montenegro Hotel, where the Guichard family, frightened by the unrest in the city, had temporarily moved. Alexander Alexandrovich, Yura and Misha, who traveled with him, find Amalia Karlovna trying to poison herself there and Komarovsky helping her. In the room, Yura sees Lara for the first time - he is struck at first glance by the beauty of the sixteen-year-old girl. Misha tells his friend that Komarovsky is the same person who pushed his father to commit suicide.

Lara, trying to end her dependence on Komarovsky, settles with the Kologrivovs, becoming the teacher of their youngest daughter Lipa. Thanks to the money she borrowed from her owners, she pays off her younger brother's gambling debt, but is tormented by the inability to give them the money. The girl decides to ask Komarovsky for money, but just in case she takes with her the revolver taken from Rodya.

In the fall of 1911, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Tony's mother, fell seriously ill. The matured triumvirate of friends graduates from university: Tonya from the Faculty of Law, Misha from the Faculty of Philology, and Yura from the Faculty of Medicine. Yuri Zhivago is interested in writing poetry, although he does not perceive writing as a profession. He also learns about the existence of his half-brother Evgraf, who lives in Omsk, and renounces part of the inheritance in his favor.

Yura impromptu reads a speech about the resurrection of the soul to Anna Ivanovna, who is feeling worse and worse. The woman falls asleep to his calm story, and after waking up she feels better. She convinces Yura and Tonya to go to the Sventitskys’ Christmas tree, and before their departure she unexpectedly blesses them, saying that they are destined for each other and must get married in the event of her death. Going to the Christmas tree, young people drive along Kamergersky Lane. When looking at one of the windows, in which a candle light is visible, Yuri comes up with the lines: “The candle was burning on the table, the candle was burning.” Behind this window, Larisa Guichard and Pavel Antipov are talking intensely at this time - the girl tells Pasha that if he loves her, they should get married immediately.

After the conversation, Lara goes to the Sventitskys, where she shoots at Komarovsky, who was playing cards, but misses and hits another person. Returning home, Yura and Tonya learn about the death of Anna Ivanovna. Through the efforts of Komarovsky, Lara avoids trial, but due to the shock she experienced, the girl fell ill with a nervous fever. After recovery, Lara, having married Pavel, leaves with him to the Urals, to Yuryatin. Immediately after the wedding, the young people talked until dawn, and Lara told her husband about her difficult relationship with Komarovsky. In Yuryatino, Larisa teaches at the gymnasium and enjoys her three-year-old daughter Katya, and Pavel teaches history and Latin. However, doubting his wife’s love, after completing officer courses, Pavel goes to the front, where he is captured in one of the battles. Larisa leaves her little daughter in the care of Lipa, and herself, having gotten a job as a sister on an ambulance train, goes to the front in search of her husband.

Yura and Tonya get married, their son Alexander is born. In the fall of 1915, Yuri was mobilized to the front as a doctor. There the doctor witnesses a terrifying picture of the decay of the army, mass desertion, and anarchy. In the Melyuzeev hospital, fate pits the wounded Yuri against the nurse Lara working there. He confesses his feelings to her.

Returning to Moscow in the summer of 1917, Zhivago finds devastation here too; he feels loneliness, and what he sees makes him change his attitude towards the surrounding reality. He works in a hospital, writes a diary, but suddenly falls ill with typhus. Poverty and devastation force Yuri and Tonya to leave for the Urals, where the former estate of the manufacturer Kruger, Tonya’s grandfather, was located not far from Yuryatin. In Varykino, they are slowly getting used to their new place, setting up their daily life in anticipation of their second child. While visiting Yuryatino for work, Zhivago accidentally meets Lara, Larisa Fedorovna Antipova. From her he learns that the red commander Strelnikov, who brings terror to the entire neighborhood, is her husband, Pavel Antipov. He managed to escape from captivity, changed his last name, but does not maintain any relations with his family. For several months, Yuri secretly meets with Lara, torn between his love for Tonya and his passion for Lara. He decides to confess to his wife that he has deceived him and not to meet with Lara again. However, on the way home, he was captured by partisans from Liveriy Mikulitsyn’s detachment. Without sharing their views, the doctor provides medical care the wounded and sick. Two years later, Yuri managed to escape.

Having reached Yuryatin, captured by the Reds, the hungry and weakened Yuri collapsed from the hardships he had endured. Larisa has been caring for him throughout his illness. After the amendment, Zhivago got a job in his specialty, but his position was very precarious: he was criticized for intuitionism in diagnosing diseases and was considered a socially alien element. Yuri receives a letter from Tony, which came to him five months after it was sent. His wife informs him that her father, Professor Gromeko, and she and her two children (she gave birth to a daughter, Masha), are being sent abroad.

Komarovsky, who unexpectedly appeared in the city, promises his protection to Lara and Yuri, offering to go with him to Far East. However, Zhivago resolutely rejects this proposal. Lara and Yuri take refuge in Varykino, abandoned by residents. One day Komarovsky comes to them with alarming news that Strelnikov has been shot and they are facing deadly danger. Zhivago sends pregnant Lara and Katya with Komarovsky, while he himself remains in Varykino.

Left alone in a completely deserted village, Yuri Andreevich simply went crazy, drank, poured out his feelings for Lara on paper. One evening he saw a man on the threshold of his house. It was Strelnikov. The men talked all night long - about the revolution and about Lara. In the morning, while the doctor was still sleeping, Strelnikov shot himself.
Having buried him, Zhivago heads to Moscow, covering most of the route on foot. Thin, feral and overgrown, Zhivago settles in a fenced-off corner in the Sventitskys’ apartment. The daughter of former janitor Markel Marina helps him with housework. Over time, they have two daughters, Capa and Klava, and sometimes Tonya sends them letters.

The doctor is gradually losing his professional skills, but sometimes writes thin books. Unexpectedly, one summer evening, Yuri Andreevich does not appear at home - he sends Marina a letter in which he says that he wants to live alone for some time and asks not to look for him.

Without knowing it, Yuri Andreevich rents the very same room on Kamergersky Lane in the window of which he saw a burning candle many years ago. Again, out of nowhere, brother Evgraf helps Yuri with money and gets him a job at the Botkin hospital.

On the way to work on a sultry August day in 1929, Yuri Andreevich begins to have a heart attack. Coming out of the tram car, he dies. Many people gather to bid farewell to him. Among them was Larisa Fedorovna, who accidentally walked into her first husband’s apartment. A few days later, the woman disappeared without a trace: she left the house and no one saw her again. She may have been arrested.

Many years later, in 1943, Major General Evgraf Zhivago recognizes the linen worker Tanya Bezseredova as the daughter of Yuri and Larisa. It turned out that before fleeing to Mongolia, Lara left the baby at one of the railway sidings. The girl first lived with Martha, who was guarding the patrol, and then wandered around the country. Evgraf collects all his brother's poems.

When Uncle Yurin Nikolai Nikolaevich moved to St. Petersburg, other relatives took care of him, who was left an orphan at ten years old - Gromeko, in whose house on Sivtsev Vrazhek they visited interesting people, and where the atmosphere of the professorial family was quite conducive to the development of Yura’s talents.

The daughter of Alexander Alexandrovich and Anna Ivanovna (nee Kruger), Tonya, was a good friend to him, and his high school classmate Misha Gordon was a close friend, so he did not suffer from loneliness.

Once, during a home concert, Alexander Alexandrovich had to accompany one of the invited musicians on an urgent call to the rooms where his good friend Amalia Karlovna Guishar had just attempted to commit suicide. The professor gave in to Yura and Misha's request and took them with him.

While the boys stood in the hallway and listened to the victim’s complaints that she was pushed to take such a step by terrible suspicions, which fortunately turned out to be only a figment of her frustrated imagination, a middle-aged man came out from behind the partition into the next room, waking up the girl who was sleeping in the chair.

She responded to the man’s glances with a wink from her accomplice, pleased that everything worked out well and their secret was not revealed. There was something frighteningly magical about this silent communication, as if he were a puppeteer and she a puppet. Yura's heart sank at the contemplation of this enslavement. On the street, Misha told a friend that he had met this man. A few years ago, he and his dad were traveling with him on the train, and he soldered Yuri’s father on the road, who then threw himself from the platform onto the rails.

The girl Yura saw turned out to be the daughter of Madame Guichard. Larisa was a high school student. At sixteen, she looked eighteen and was somewhat burdened by the position of a child - the same as her friends. This feeling intensified when she succumbed to the advances of Viktor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, whose role under her mother was not limited to the role of an adviser in business and a friend at home. He became her nightmare, he enslaved her.

A few years later, already as a medical student, Yuri Zhivago met Lara again under unusual circumstances.

Together with Tonya Gromeko on the eve of Christmas, they went to the Sventitsky Christmas tree along Kamergersky Lane. Recently, Anna Ivanovna, who had been seriously ill for a long time, joined their hands, saying that they were made for each other. Tonya was truly a close and understanding person. And at that moment she caught his mood and did not interfere with admiring the frost-covered windows, glowing from the inside, in one of which Yuri noticed a black thawed patch, through which the fire of a candle could be seen, facing the street almost with a conscious gaze. At this moment, the lines of the poems that had not yet taken shape were born: “The candle was burning on the table, the candle was burning...”

He had no idea that outside the window Lara Guichard was telling Pasha Antipov at that moment, who had not hidden his adoration since childhood, that if he loved her and wanted to keep her from death, they should immediately get married. After this, Lara went to the Sventitskys, where Yura and Tonya were having fun in the hall, and where Komarovsky was sitting playing cards. At about two o'clock in the morning a shot was suddenly heard in the house. Lara, shooting at Komarovsky, missed, but the bullet hit a fellow prosecutor of the Moscow judicial chamber. When Lara was led through the hall, Yura was stunned - she was the same one! And again the same gray-haired man who was involved in the death of his father! To top it all off, upon returning home, Tonya and Yura no longer found Anna Ivanovna alive.

Through the efforts of Komarovsky, Lara was saved from trial, but she fell ill, and Pasha was not yet allowed to see her. However, Kologrivov came and brought “rewards”. More than three years ago, Lara, in order to get rid of Komarovsky, became the teacher of his youngest daughter. Everything was going well, but then her empty-headed brother Rodya lost the public money. He was going to shoot himself if his sister didn't help him. The Kologrivovs helped out with the money, and Lara gave it to Roda, taking away the revolver with which he wanted to shoot himself. Kologrivov was unable to repay the debt. Lara, secretly from Pasha, sent money to his exiled father and paid extra to the owners of the room in Kamergersky. The girl considered her position with the Kologrivovs to be false, and saw no way out of it except to ask Komarovsky for money. Life disgusted her. At the Sventitskys’ ball, Viktor Ippolitovich pretended to be busy with cards and not notice Lara. He turned to the girl who entered the hall with a smile, the meaning of which Lara understood so well...

When Lara felt better, she and Pasha got married and left for Yuryatin, in the Urals. After the wedding, the newlyweds talked until the morning. His guesses alternated with Lara’s confessions, after which his heart sank... In her new place, Larisa taught at the gymnasium and was happy, although she had a house and three-year-old Katenka. Pasha taught Latin and ancient history. Yura and Tonya also celebrated their wedding. Meanwhile, war broke out. Yuri Andreevich ended up at the front without having time to really see his born son. In another way, Pavel Pavlovich Antipov found himself in the thick of battle.

The relationship with my wife was not easy. He doubted her love for him. To free everyone from this fake family life, he completed officer courses and ended up at the front, where he was captured in one of the battles. Larisa Fedorovna entered the ambulance train as a sister and went to look for her husband. Second Lieutenant Galiullin, who knew Pasha since childhood, claimed that he saw him die.

Zhivago He witnessed the collapse of the army, the outrages of anarchist deserters, and upon returning to Moscow, he found even more terrible devastation. What he saw and experienced forced the doctor to reconsider a lot in his attitude towards the revolution.

To survive, the family moved to the Urals, to the former Kruger estate Varykino, not far from the city of Yuryatin. The path ran through snow-covered spaces dominated by armed gangs, through areas of recently pacified uprisings, which with horror repeated the name of Strelnikov, who were pushing back the whites under the command of Colonel Galiullin.

In Varykino, they stayed first with the former manager of the Krugers, Mikulitsyn, and then in an outbuilding for servants. They planted potatoes and cabbage, tidied up the house, and the doctor sometimes saw the sick. The unexpected appearance of his half-brother Evgraf, energetic, mysterious, very influential, helped strengthen their position. Antonina Alexandrovna seemed to be expecting a child.

Over time, Yuri Andreevich got the opportunity to visit the library in Yuryatin, where he saw Larisa Fedorovna Antipova. She told him about herself, that Strelnikov was her husband Pavel Antipov, who returned from captivity, but hid under a different name and did not maintain relations with his family. When he took Yuryatin, he bombarded the city with shells and never once inquired whether his wife and daughter were alive.

Two months later, Yuri Andreevich Once again was returning from the city to Varykino, He deceived Tonya, continuing to love her, and was tormented by this. That day he drove home with the intention of confessing everything to his wife and not meeting Lara again.

Suddenly three armed men blocked his way and announced that the doctor was from that moment mobilized into the detachment of Liveriy Mikulitsyn. The doctor had his hands full: in the winter - rash, in the summer - dysentery, and at all times of the year - the wounded. Before Livery, Yuri Andreevich did not hide the fact that the ideas of October did not ignite him, that they were still so far from being realized, and seas of blood had been paid for just talking about it, so that the end did not justify the means. And the very idea of ​​​​remaking life was born by people who did not feel its spirit. Two years of captivity, separation from family, hardship and danger ended with an escape.

The doctor appeared in Yuryatin at the moment when the whites left the city, handing it over to the reds. He looked wild, unwashed, hungry and weak. Larisa Fedorovna and Katenka were not at home. He found a note in the key hiding place. Larisa and her daughter went to Varykino, hoping to find him there. His thoughts were confused, fatigue was making him sleepy. He lit the stove, ate a little and, without undressing, fell fast asleep. When he woke up, he realized that he was undressed, washed and lying in a clean bed, that he had been sick for a long time, but was quickly recovering thanks to Lara’s care, although until he fully recovered there was nothing to think about returning to Moscow. Zhivago went to serve in the Gubernia Health, and Larisa Fedorovna - in the Gubernia. However, the clouds were gathering over them. The doctor was seen as a social alien; the ground began to shake under Strelnikov. The emergency was raging in the city.

At this time, a letter arrived from Tony: the family was in Moscow, but Professor Gromeko, and with him she and the children (now they, in addition to their son, have a daughter, Masha) were being sent abroad. The grief is that she loves him, but he doesn’t love her. Let him build his life according to his own understanding.

Komarovsky suddenly showed up. He is invited by the government of the Far Eastern Republic and is ready to take them with him: they are both in mortal danger. Yuri Andreevich immediately rejected this proposal. Lara had long ago told him about the fatal role that this man played in her life, and he told her that Viktor Ippolitovich was responsible for his father’s suicide. It was decided to take refuge in Varykino. The village had long been abandoned by its inhabitants, wolves howled around at night, but the appearance of people would have been worse, but they did not take weapons with them. In addition, Lara recently said that she seems to be pregnant. I no longer had to think about myself. Just then Komarovsky arrived again. He brought the news that Strelnikov was sentenced to death and Katenka must be saved if Lara does not think about herself. The doctor told Lara to go with Komarovsky.

In the snowy, forest solitude, Yuri Andreevich slowly went crazy. He drank and wrote poems dedicated to Lara. Crying for a lost loved one grew into generalized thoughts about history and man, about the revolution as a lost and lamented ideal.

One evening the doctor heard the crunch of steps, and a man appeared at the door. Yuri Andreevich did not immediately recognize Strelnikov. It turned out that Komarovsky had deceived them! They talked almost all night.

About the revolution, about Lara, about childhood on Tverskaya-Yamskaya. They went to bed in the morning, but when they woke up and went out to get water, the doctor discovered his interlocutor had shot himself.

In Moscow, Zhivago appeared already at the beginning of the New Economic Policy, emaciated, overgrown and wild. He traveled most of the way on foot. Over the next eight or nine years of his life, he lost his medical skills and lost his writing skills, but still took up the pen and wrote thin books. Fans appreciated them.

The daughter of a former janitor, Marina, helped him with the housework; she worked at the telegraph office on the foreign communication line. Over time, she became the doctor's wife and they had two daughters. But one of the summer days Yuri Andreevich suddenly disappeared. Marina received a letter from him that he wanted to live alone for a while and not to be looked for. He did not say that brother Evgraf, who had appeared from nowhere again, rented him a room in Kamergersky, provided him with money, and began to bother about good location work.

However, on a sultry August day, Yuri Andreevich died of a heart attack. An unexpectedly large number of people came to Kamergersky to say goodbye to him. Larisa Fedorovna was among those saying goodbye. She came into this apartment out of old memory. Her first husband Pavel Antipov once lived here. A few days after the funeral, she suddenly disappeared: she left home and did not return. Apparently she was arrested.

Already in the forty-third year, at the front, Major General Evgraf Andreevich Zhivago, asking linen worker Tanka Bezcheredova about her heroic friend intelligence officer Khristina Orletsova, inquired about her, Tanina’s, fate. He quickly realized that this was the daughter of Larisa and brother Yuri. Fleeing with Komarovsky to Mongolia, when the Reds were approaching Primorye, Lara left the girl at a railway crossing with the guard Marfa, who ended her days in a mental hospital. Then homelessness, wandering...

By the way, Evgraf Andreevich not only took care of Tatyana, but also collected everything his brother wrote. Among his poems was the poem “Winter Night”: “Shallow, shallow all over the earth / To all limits. / The candle was burning on the table, / The candle was burning...”

"Doctor Zhivago"- novel by Boris Pasternak. Showing a broad canvas of the life of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the dramatic period from the beginning of the century to the Great Patriotic War, through the prism of the biography of the doctor-poet, the book touches on the mystery of life and death, the problems of Russian history, the intelligentsia and the revolution, Christianity, and Jewry.

PART 1. FIVE HOUR AMBULANCE

The mother of ten-year-old Yura Zhivago, Maria Nikolaevna, is buried in the cemetery. The boy is very worried: “His snub-nosed face is distorted. His neck stretched out. If a wolf cub raised its head with such a movement, it would be clear that it would now howl. Covering his face with his hands, the boy began to sob.” Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin, his mother’s brother, a priest with a low-haired priest, and currently an employee of the publishing house, approached him. He took Yura away. The boy and his uncle go to one of the monastery chambers to spend the night. The next day they plan to leave for the south of Russia, in the Volga region. At night, the boy is awakened by the sounds of a blizzard raging in the yard. It seems to him that they will be swept away in this cell, that his mother’s grave will be swept away so that she “will be powerless to resist him, and will go even deeper and further from him into the ground.” Yura cries, his uncle consoles him and talks about God.

Little Yura's life passed "in disorder and among constant mysteries." The boy was not told that their father had squandered their family's million-dollar fortune and then abandoned them. Her mother was often sick, went to France for treatment, and left Yura in the care of strangers. He experiences the death of his mother painfully, he feels so bad that sometimes he loses consciousness. But he feels good with his uncle, “a free man, devoid of prejudice against anything unusual.”

Vedenyapin brings Yura to the estate of the manufacturer and patron of the arts Kologrivov Duplyanka, to his friend - the teacher and popularizer of useful knowledge Voskoboynikov. He is raising Nika, the son of the terrorist Dudorov, who is serving a sentence in hard labor. Nika's mother is the Georgian princess Nina Eristova, an eccentric woman, constantly carried away by "rebellions, rebels, extreme theories, famous artists, poor losers." Nika gives the impression of a “strange boy”. He is about fourteen years old, he likes the daughter of the owner of the estate, Nadya Kologrivova. He does not behave very well towards her - he is rude to her, threatens to drown her, says that he will run away to Siberia, where he will start real life, will start earning money himself, and then start a rebellion. Both understand that their quarrels are pointless. Eleven-year-old boy Misha Gordon travels from Orenburg to Moscow by train with his father. Boy with early age I realized that being a Jew in Russia is bad. The boy treats adults with contempt and dreams that when he becomes an adult, he will solve the “Jewish question” along with other problems. Misha's father suddenly pulls the stop valve and the train stops. A man jumps off the train, who during the trip visited the Gordons in the compartment, talked for a long time with Misha’s father, consulted about bills, bankruptcies and deeds of gift, surprised at what Gordon Sr. answered him. His lawyer Komarovsky comes after this fellow traveler and takes him away. This lawyer told Misha's father that this man was “a well-known rich man, a good-natured man and a rogue, already half insane” due to excessive alcohol consumption. This rich man gave gifts to Misha, talked about his first family, in which his son grew up, talked about his deceased wife, whom he abandoned. Suddenly he jumped off the train, which the lawyer was not surprised by. Misha even thought that this man’s suicide would only benefit his lawyer. After many years, Misha learned that this suicide was none other than the father of his future closest friend Yuri Zhivago.

PART 2. A GIRL FROM ANOTHER CIRCLE

Amalia Karlovna Guichard, the widow of a Belgian engineer, comes to Moscow from the Urals with her two children Larisa and Rodey. Lawyer Komarovsky, a friend of her late husband, advises her to buy a sewing workshop in order to preserve her capital. She does just that. In addition, Komarovsky advises her to assign Rodya to the corps, and Lara to the gymnasium. He himself makes the girl blush with his immodest glances. For some time, Amalia Karlovna and her children live in the squalid rooms of “Montenegro”. The widow is afraid of two things: poverty and men, on whom she nevertheless constantly becomes dependent. Komarovsky becomes her lover. During their love dates, Guichard sends the children to their neighbor, cellist Tyshkevich.

Amalia Karlovna moves to small apartment at the workshop. There Lara becomes friends with Olya Demina, who works part-time in this workshop, and with whom she also goes to the gymnasium. Komarovsky begins to show Lara unambiguous signs of attention, which she is afraid of. But intimacy still happens. Lara feels like a fallen woman, and Komarovsky unexpectedly realizes that the usual seduction of an innocent girl is developing into a great feeling for him. He can no longer live without Lara and strives to arrange her life. Lara tries to find solace in religion. Nika Dudorov, a friend of her friend Nadya Kologrivova, begins to court her. Nika is of no interest to Lara, because he is very similar in character to her, he is also proud, taciturn, straightforward. Guichard's home is located near the Brest railway. In the same place live Olya Demina, road foreman of the station section Pavel Ferapontovich Antipov, driver Kipreyan Savelyevich Tiverzin, who stands up for the son of the janitor Gamazetdin TOsupka, who is often beaten by master Khudoleev. Tiverzin and Antipov are part of the working committee organizing a strike on the railway. Antipov is soon arrested, and his son Pavel, a neat and cheerful boy who studies at a real school, is left alone with his deaf aunt. Pasha is taken in by the Tiverzins. One day he is taken with them to a demonstration, which is attacked by Cossacks, beating everyone. In the fall of 1905, there are fist fights in the city.

Through Olya Demina, Pasha meets Lara, with whom he not only falls in love, but idolizes her. He does not know how to hide his feelings, but Lara takes advantage of the influence she has on Pasha. But she does not have any feelings for him, because she understands that she is more mature than him psychologically. Guichard and his children move to “Montenegro” for a while because he is afraid of shooting.

Yura's uncle assigns his nephew to the Moscow family of his friend Professor Gromeko. Nikolai Nikolaevich, coming to Moscow, stays with his distant relatives, the Svetnitskys. He introduces Yura to the children of his relatives. The children - Yura Zhivago, his high school classmate Misha Gordon and the owners' daughter Tanya Gromeko - became very friendly with each other. "This triple alliance... is obsessed with preaching chastity." Tony's parents, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko and Anna Ivanovna, often organized chamber evenings and invited musicians. Gromeko family - " educated people, hospitable people and great music connoisseurs.” While organizing one of the evenings, Gromeko invited cellist Tyshkevich, who in the middle of the evening was asked to urgently come to Montenegro. Tyshkevich goes there together with Alexander Alexandrovich, Yura and Misha. In “Montenegro” they see an unpleasant sight - Amalia Karlovna tried to poison herself, but was unsuccessful. She sobs theatrically. Komarovsky appears and helps Guichard. Yura notices Larisa behind the partition, whose beauty amazes him. But he is offended by the way Komarovsky and Larisa communicate with each other. When everyone goes outside, Misha tells Yura that Komarovsky is the very lawyer with the help of whom Yura’s father went to the next world. However, at that moment, Yura is not able to think about his father - all his thoughts are about Larisa.

PART 3. TREE AT THE SVETNITSKYS

Alexander Alexandrovich gave Anna Ivanovna a huge wardrobe. Janitor Markel comes to collect this wardrobe. Anna Ivanovna tries to help the janitor, but suddenly the wardrobe falls apart, Anna Ivanovna falls and hurts herself. After this fall, she develops a predisposition to lung diseases. And throughout November 1911 she suffered from pneumonia. The children had grown up by this time and were graduating from university. Yura is a doctor, Misha is a philologist, and Tonya is a lawyer. Yura is passionate about writing poetry, which he “forgave the sin of their origin for their energy and originality,” and believes that literature cannot be a profession. Yura finds out that he has a half-brother Evgraf, refuses part of his father's inheritance in favor of his brother, because he wants to achieve everything in life himself.

Anna Ivanovna is getting worse, and Yura is trying to provide her with medical assistance. But something completely different helps her - when she says that she is afraid of approaching death, Yura tells her a lot about the resurrection of souls. He says that “there is no death. Death is not our thing... talent is another matter, it is ours, it is open to us. And talent, in its highest and broadest acceptance, is the gift of life.” Under the influence of Yura's speech, Anna Ivanovna falls asleep, and when she wakes up, she feels better. The disease is receding.

Anna Ivanovna often tells Yura and Tonya about her childhood spent on the Varykino estate in the Urals. She insists that Yura and Tonya go to the Svetnitsky Christmas tree, wearing new outfits. Before the young people leave, Anna Ivanovna suddenly decides to bless them, and says that if she dies, Tonya and Yura should get married, since they are made for each other.

Lara, who was kept by Komarovsky, decides to find an honest income for herself. Nadya Kologrivova invites her to work as a teacher for her younger sister Lipa. Lara lives with the Kologrivovs, who are very wealthy and pay Lara’s work very generously. The girl accumulates quite a substantial amount of money. This continues for three years, until Larisa’s younger brother Rodya arrives. He demands money from his sister to pay off gambling debts, threatening to shoot himself otherwise. He says that he met with Komarovsky and that he is ready to give him money in exchange for renewing his relationship with Lara. She refuses this option, gives her brother all her savings, and borrows the missing amount from Komarovsky. She takes the revolver with which Rodya threatened to shoot himself and practices shooting in her free time. He is very successful in this activity.

Larisa feels that she is becoming superfluous in the Kologrivovs’ house, since Lipa has already grown up. She cannot repay her debt to Komarovsky, since she also pays most of his rent secretly from her fiancé Pasha Antipov. Material difficulties oppress Lara, her only desire is to give up everything and go to the outback. To do this, she decides to ask Komarovsky for money. She believes that after everything that happened between them, he should help her for free. She finds out that Komarovsky will be at the Svetnitskys’ Christmas tree, she’s going there, taking Rody’s revolver with her, in case the lawyer tries to insult her. Before going to the Christmas tree, Larisa stops by to see Pasha Antipov and asks that they get married as quickly as possible, speak up! that she has difficulties in which only he can help her. Pasha agrees. When talking with Larisa, Pasha puts a candle on the window. During a conversation between Lara and Pavel, Tonya and Yura drive past the house in a sleigh, who draws attention to the candle burning in the window. He receives the lines “The candle was burning on the table. The candle was burning...” Lara comes to the Svetnitskys. Yura and Tonya arrive there and dance together at the ball. Yura discovers a new Tonya - a charming woman, and not just an old friend. She worries him, Yura presses Tony’s handkerchief to his lips, enjoys the happiness of being next to her, and at that moment a shot is heard. It is Lara who shoots at Komarovsky, but hits another person. This man is comrade prosecutor Kornakov. He is slightly wounded, and Yura provides him with first aid. Zhivago is shocked that the culprit of the incident was the same girl whom he saw in Komarovsky’s company in “Montenegro”. And again he draws attention to how beautiful Larisa is. Suddenly Tonya and Yura are called home - Anna Ivanovna is dying. Tonya takes her mother’s death extremely hard and spends hours on her knees at the coffin. Anna Ivanovna is buried in the same cemetery where Yura's mother is buried.

PART 4. IMPORTANT INEVITABILITIES

Thanks to the efforts of Komarovsky and the Kologrivovs, the case about the shot turns out to be hushed up. For a long time Lara lies in a nervous fever. Kologrivov writes her a check for ten thousand rubles. When Larisa comes to her senses, she tells Pasha that they should break up because she is unworthy of him. But, saying all this, she sobs so inconsolably that Pasha does not take her words about separation seriously.

Soon the young people get married, then leave Moscow and go to live and work in Yuryatin. Komarovsky asks Lara for permission to visit her in a new place, but she resolutely refuses him. On their wedding night, Lara tells Pasha about her relationship with the lawyer. In the morning, Pasha feels like a completely different person, “almost surprised that his name is still the same.”

In the family of Yuri Andreevich Zhivago and his wife Tony, the first child is born, who is named after Tony’s father Alexander. The birth of a child deeply worries Zhivago. By this time, Yuri Andreevich had a large medical practice, he was considered an excellent diagnostician. The second autumn of the war is underway. Doctor Zhivago is sent to active duty in the army, where he serves with his childhood friend Misha Gordon.

Lara and Pasha Antipov teach in Yuryatino. They have a daughter, Katya, who is currently three years old. Paul teaches ancient history and Latin. He is dissatisfied with the society in which he is forced to move - his colleagues seem to him to be narrow-minded people. In addition, Pavel constantly comes to mind that Larisa never loved him and married him only because of the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bself-sacrifice. In order not to be a burden to Lara, Pavel goes to military school and then to the front. Larisa believes that “he did not appreciate the maternal feeling that she had mixed into her tenderness for him all her life, and did not realize that such love was more than ordinary female love.”

At the front, Pavel realizes that he made a mistake by deciding to go there, and soon he goes missing. Larisa decides to leave Katya in the care of her former pupil Lipa, and she herself goes to the front as a sister of mercy in search of Pavel in order to explain things to him.

The son of the janitor Gamazetdin Yusupka rose to the rank of second lieutenant at the front. He fought with Pavel and had to inform his family that Antipov had died. But he never found the time to write a letter to Larisa, since there were endless fierce battles. Fate brings Yusupka together with Zhivago in the hospital, where both end up undergoing treatment. And in the same hospital Lara works as a nurse. Yusupka was never able to tell her that Pavel died, so he deceives Lara, saying that her husband is in captivity. But Larisa senses a lie. Zhivago recognizes Larisa as the girl who shot at the Svetnitskys’ Christmas tree, but does not tell her that he has seen her before. At the same time, news arrives that a revolution has occurred in St. Petersburg.

PART 5. FAREWELL TO THE OLD

New self-government bodies are being created in Melyuzeyevo. “Seasoned” people are elected to various positions. Yusupka, Zhivago and Antipova’s sister fall into the category of these people. Larisa and Yuri Andreevich even live in the same house, but in different rooms, while Zhivago does not know where exactly Larisa’s room is. He becomes increasingly interested in La-roy, but they maintain an official relationship. One of the letters that Yuri received from his wife contains advice to stay in the Urals with his “amazing sister.” Yuri Andreevich is going to go to Moscow to explain things to Tonya, but he is delayed by business. The doctor decides to explain himself to Lara so that she does not harbor any illusions about him, but he ends his chaotic speech by actually declaring his love to Larisa. Zhivago leaves for Moscow.

PART 6. MOSCOW CAMP

Zhivago comes home to Tonya, who asks him from the doorway to forget about the nonsense that she wrote in the letter. The child does not recognize his father, hits him in the face and cries. Both Tonya and Yuri feel that this is not a good sign. In the following days, Zhivago begins to feel how lonely he is. “My friends have become strangely dim and discolored. No one has their own world, their own opinion...” Communication with his closest friends Gordon and Dudorov also does not bring joy to Yuri Andreevich. He's annoyed that Gordon is trying to look funny. Yuri Andreevich's uncle, Nikolai Nikolaevich, who was “flattered by the role of a political talker and public charmer,” also seems strange to his nephew. They said about Nikolai Nikolaevich that in Switzerland, where he came from, “he was left with a new young passion, unfinished business, an unfinished book, and that he would only plunge into a stormy domestic whirlpool, and then, if he emerged unharmed, he would again wave to his Alps, and they only saw him.” On the occasion of the return of Yuri Andreevich, the Zhivago spouses invite guests. At the table, Zhivago makes a speech about the period of history in which they all happened to live: “An unheard-of, unprecedented thing is approaching... In the third year of the war, the people became convinced that sooner or later the border between the front and the rear would be erased, a sea of ​​blood would approach everyone and flood sitting back and entrenched. The revolution is this flood. During it, it will seem to you, as it did to us during the war, that life has stopped, everything personal is over, and only people die and kill, and if we live to see the notes and memoirs about this time and read these memories, we will be convinced that in five years we have experienced more than others in a whole century... Russia is destined to become the first kingdom of socialism in the existence of the world.”

Yuri Andreevich’s main task is to worry about how to feed his family. He considers his milieu of the intelligentsia doomed and powerless. He feels like a pygmy “before the monstrous colossus of the future.” However, it is a future he is proud of. Yuri Andreevich gets a job as a doctor at the Holy Cross Hospital, and Tonya and her father are rebuilding their house, part of which they give to the Agricultural Academy. The family now lives in three barely heated rooms. Zhivago spends a lot of time finding firewood.

From an emergency release of newspapers, Zhivago learns that Russia has installed Soviet authority and the dictatorship of the proletariat was introduced. To finish reading the purchased newspaper, Yuri Andreevich enters an unfamiliar entrance, where he encounters a young man in a reindeer hat, which is usually worn in Siberia. The young man wants to talk to the doctor, but does not dare. At home, Zhivago, lighting the stove, talks aloud to himself: “What a magnificent surgery! Take and cut out the old stinking sores at once!.. This is unprecedented, this is a miracle of history, this revelation is gasped into the very thick of the ongoing everyday life, without paying attention to its progress... Only the greatest is so inappropriate and untimely.”

Yuri Andreevich uses every chance to earn extra money. He goes on calls, and one of his patients is diagnosed with typhus. The woman needs hospitalization, which requires a referral from the house committee. The chairman of the house committee turns out to be Lara's old friend Olga Demina. She gives her cab to the sick woman, and she and Yuri Andreevich walk on foot. On the way, she talks about Larisa, says that she invited her to Moscow, promised to help with her work, but she did not agree. Olga is sure that Larisa married Pavel “with her head, not her heart, and has been naughty ever since.” After some time, Yuri Andreevich falls ill with typhus. In his delirium, he imagines that he is writing poetry that he has long dreamed of. His family is in desperate need during Zhivago's illness. Yuri Andreevich's half-brother Evgraf arrives from Siberia - the same young man whom the doctor met in an unfamiliar entrance. The brother is reading Yuri Andreevich’s poems. He brings food to Zhivago’s family, then leaves back to Omsk; before leaving, he advises Tonya to go to the former estate of Tonin’s grandfather Varykino, located not far from Yuryatin. In April, the Zhivago family leaves there.

PART 7. ON THE ROAD

The Zhivagos get themselves a business trip and, with great difficulty, find seats on a train traveling to the Urals for a long time. The train is prefabricated, it has passenger cars, heated cars with soldiers, with those recruited into the labor army, following under escort, and freight cars. Among those traveling on the train is Vasya Brykin, a sixteen-year-old boy who ended up in the labor army by accident. The railway track is covered with snow, and everyone traveling is mobilized to clear it. Zhivago learns that the region is ruled by Ataman Strelnikov, an incorruptible and brave Ataman who is liberating the area from Galiullin’s gangs. Several “volunteers” from the labor army, including Vasya Brykin, run away.

Yuri Andreevich at one of the stations decides to walk along the platform, but he is mistaken for a spy and brought to Strelnikov. It turns out that Streyanikov and Pavel Antipov are the same person. People called him Rastrelnikov. He repeats the name of Yuri Andreevich several times, while making it clear that he knows Zhivago from somewhere. Strelnikov says that he anticipates a new meeting with Zhivago in the future, but next time he promises not to spare him. This time he releases the doctor.

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PART 8. ARRIVAL

During the absence of Yuri Andreevich, Tonya meets the Bolshevik Anfim Efimovich Samdevyatov. He introduces her to all the things going on in Yuryatin, talks about the new owners of Toni’s grandfather’s estate. Varykin's new owners, the Mikulitsyns, give Zhivago a rather cold reception. Everyone in Yuryatin recognizes Tonya, although they have never seen her before, because she is very similar to her grandfather, the manufacturer. In addition to the unexpected arrival of Zhivago, the Mikulitsyns have many other problems - Averky Stepanovich, the head of the family, gave all his youth to the revolution, and then found himself on the sidelines, as the workers, among whom he worked, fled with the Mensheviks. But still, the Mikulitsyns give Zhivago a house and land on which they engage in peasant labor, taking care of food.

PART 9. VARYKINO

Yuri Andreevich keeps a diary in which he reflects on his predestination. Comes to the conclusion that his task is to “serve, heal and write.” Samdevyatov regularly comes to them, helping with food and kerosene. The Zhivagos live a quiet, measured life - in the evenings they gather to talk about literature and art. Suddenly Evgraf arrives, who “invades as a kind genius, a deliverer who resolves all difficulties.” Yuri Andreevich still cannot understand what his brother is doing, since he knows nothing about him.

Zhivago often goes to the library, where one day he meets Larisa, but never dares to approach her.

In the library he finds out Lara's address. He goes to her and meets her near the house with full buckets of water. And the thought occurs to him that she endures life’s hardships just as easily. Lara introduces him to her daughter Katenka, asks him for details of his meeting with Strelnikov, says that he is actually her husband Pavel and that he for a long time could not have any contact with his family, since this is how it should be for revolutionary figures. Lara still loves him and believes that only Pasha’s pride forced him to leave his family - he had to prove the strength of his character.

Very soon the relationship between Larisa and Yuri Andreevich develops into a love affair. Zhivago is very tormented by the fact that he is forced to deceive Tonya. He decides to break up with Larisa and confess everything to Tone. He tells Larisa about this, goes home, but then decides to return to see her again. Not far from Lara’s house, the doctor is seized by partisans from the “Forest Brothers” detachment, led by Comrade Liveriy, Mikulitsyn’s son from his first marriage.

PART 10. ON THE HIGH ROAD

For two years, Zhivago is captured by the partisans, working for them as a doctor. Liverius treats him well and likes to talk with him on philosophical topics.

PART 11. FOREST MARRIAGE

Zhivago tried never to participate in battles, but one day he still had to take a weapon from the hands of a dead telephone operator and shoot. Yuri Andreevich aimed at a tree, being careful not to hit anyone, but he did not succeed - he killed three people. Zhivago crawled to the murdered telephone operator and took an amulet from his neck, in which was the text of a psalm considered miraculous. After some time, he removes a small case from the neck of the killed White Guard, inside of which is the same text. The doctor understands that this man is alive, because the bullet bounced off the case, hitting him. Secretly, Yuri Andreevich nurses this man back to health and lets him go, although he says that he will return to the Kolchakites.

Zhivago observes how “mental illnesses of the most typical nature” begin in the partisan detachment. For example, soldier Pamfil Palykh was obsessed with fear for his loved ones.

PART 12. ROWAN BERRY IN SUGAR

Palykh went so far as to bring his wife and children into the detachment because he was afraid that the whites would kill them. All day long he made toys for children and looked after his wife. But after some time, Palykh himself kills his relatives, citing the fact that they should die an easy death, and not from torture by the White Guards. Palykh's comrades do not know what to do with him. Palykh himself soon disappears from the camp. After this, Zhivago runs on skis under the pretext of collecting frozen mountain ash in the forest.

PART 13. AGAINST THE HOUSE WITH FIGURES

Zhivago, having escaped from the partisans, gets to Yuryatin, to Larisa, despite the fact that for two years he was thinking about Tonya and his family, about his daughter, whom he had never seen. He gets to Lara's apartment and discovers a note from his lover addressed to him. That is, Larisa already knew that Zhivago had escaped. Wandering the streets, Zhivago reads the directives of the new government posted on the walls and remembers that he once admired “the unconditionality of this language and the directness of this thought. Should he really pay for this careless admiration by never seeing anything else in his life except these stretches? for long years unchanging naughty cries and demands, the further you go, the more lifeless, incomprehensible and unfulfillable? Zhivago learns that his family is now in Moscow.

Yuri Andreevich returns to Larisa. She loses consciousness because she is sick, and when she wakes up, she sees Larisa. She nurses him, and when Zhivago gets better, Larisa tells him that her love for her husband has not faded. Larisa, just like Yuri Andreevich, loves two completely different, but equally strong love. She talks about how she became friends with Tonya, at whose birth she was present. Zhivago admits: “I’m crazy, crazy, endlessly in love with you.”

Larisa explains why her marriage to Pasha broke up. “Pasha... took a sign of the times, social evil for a domestic phenomenon. He took the unnatural tone, the official tension of our reasoning to himself, attributed it to the fact that he was a cracker, a mediocrity, a man in a case... He went to war, which no one demanded of him. He did this to free us from himself, from his imaginary oppression... With some kind of youthful, misdirected pride, he was offended by something in life that one does not take offense at. He began to sulk at the course of events, at history... After all, to this day he is settling scores with her.”

Zhivago, Larisa and Katenka live like a family. Yuri Andreevich works in a hospital and gives lectures on medical and surgical courses. But pretty soon he realizes that he will have to quit his job. The doctor realizes that at first he is valued for his new thoughts and conscientious work, but it turns out that these new thoughts mean “a verbal garnish for the glorification of the revolution and the powers that be.”

Larisa fears for her fate and the fate of her daughter. There are reasons for this - Larisa's former Moscow neighbors Tiverzin and Antipov Sr., who do not like Larisa, were transferred to the Yuryatinsk board of the Revolutionary Tribunal. Both are capable of destroying even their own son in the name of the idea of ​​revolution. Larisa invites Yuri Andreevich to flee the city, Zhivago suggests leaving for Varykino.

Before leaving, a letter arrives from Tonya from Moscow, in which she reports that the daughter was named after Zhivago’s mother Maria, that the son yearns for his father, that Tonya herself knows everything about her husband’s relationship with Larisa, that they are being expelled from Moscow and they are leaving for Paris . She speaks well of Larisa, but admits their complete opposite: “I was born to simplify life and look for the right way out, and she was born to complicate it and lead astray.”

Tonya understands that she and her husband will no longer see each other, admits that she loves him and will raise her children with complete respect for their father. After reading the letter, Zhivago collapses.

PART 14. AGAIN IN VARYKINO

Zhivago lives with his new family in Varykino. Samdevyatov helps them triple their income. Yuri Andreevich devotes more and more time to creativity, writes poetry. “...He experienced the approach of what is called inspiration.”

Komarovsky is looking for Larisa, informing her that her husband has been arrested and will soon be shot. That is, Larisa can no longer stay in the vicinity of Yuryatin. Komarovsky, who has been offered a seat on a service train heading to the Far East, invites Larisa and Zhivago to go with him, but the doctor refuses. Then the lawyer, face to face, persuades Zhivago to pretend that he agrees to go, only he will catch up with Larisa later. For the sake of saving his beloved, Zhivago agrees, and Komarovsky takes Lara away.

Left alone, Yuri Andreevich quietly goes crazy, writes poems dedicated to Larisa, he constantly hears her voice. Samdevyatov scolds him for being down and promises to pick him up from Barykin in three. During these three days, Strelnikov comes to Zhivago. They talk a lot about Larisa, Yuri Andreevich talks about how she loved her husband. Paul says that he went on a six-year separation because he believed that “not all freedom has been won.” In the morning, Strelnikov shot himself in the yard.

PART 15. END

The doctor comes on foot to Moscow. On the way he meets Vasya Brykin, who recognizes Zhivago and volunteers to accompany him. Yuri Andreevich looks very bad - he is sagging, dirty, overgrown. For some time he and Vasya live in Moscow together. Vasya works in a printing house and has a penchant for drawing. He condemns Zhivago for not bothering enough about the political justification of his family and a foreign passport in order to leave after Tonya and the children. Zhivago settles in Flour Town, where his former janitor Markel protects him from former room Svetnitskikh. He meets the janitor's daughter Marina, and they have two girls. Zhivago corresponds with Tonya and also communicates with Dudorov and Gordon. Suddenly Zhivago disappears and transfers into Marina’s name a very large amount of money that he never had. No one can find him anywhere, although he lives very close to Muchny Lane in a rented room. Brother Evgraf helps him with money, he is also trying to get the doctor a good job, and promises to settle the issue of reuniting Zhivago with his family. Evgraf was amazed by his brother’s talent, and Yuri Andreevich composed a lot during this period.

One morning Zhivago is riding in a stuffy, crowded tram, he becomes ill, and, barely getting off the tram, the doctor falls dead on the sidewalk. The coffin with the body of the late Zhivago is placed on the table where Yuri Andreevich worked. Evgraf brings Larisa to say goodbye to him. She addresses the deceased: “Your departure is my end. The mystery of life, the mystery of death, the beauty of genius, the beauty of nakedness... we understood this.” After the funeral, Larisa and Evgraf sort through Zhivago’s archive. Larisa confesses to Yuri Andreevich's brother that she had a daughter from Yuri.

PART 16. EPILOGUE

In the summer of 1943, Evgraf, already with the rank of general, is looking for the daughter of Larisa and Zhivago Tanya, a linen worker in one of the units Soviet army. Gordon and Dudorov, who spent time in camps in the thirties, are familiar with Tanya. Evgraf promises to take her as his niece and enroll her in a university. After another ten years, Gordon and Dudorov reread the notebook of Zhivago's works. “Although the enlightenment and liberation that were expected after the war did not come with victory, as they thought, but still, the harbinger of freedom was in the air all the post-war years... And the book... knew all this and gave their feelings support and confirmation.”