Doctor Zhivago (novel)
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Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II.
Front page of the first edition
First Italian edition cover of book, published in November 1957 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Copy of the miniature Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago, covertly published by the CIA in 1959 as weapon against the Soviet regime. The front cover and the binding identify the book in Russian; the back of the book states that it was printed in France. Important note: the miniature paperback edition was in 1959, that is after 1958 Nobel Award, not to be confused with the hardcover book published by Mouton.
Pushkin Library, Perm
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
Pasternak in 1959
Boris (left) with his brother Alex; painting by their father, Leonid Pasternak
Pasternak c. 1908
Boris Pasternak in 1910, by his father Leonid Pasternak