''Doctor Zhivago'' is the title of a
novel
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ...
by
Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, ''My Sister, Life'', was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an imp ...
and its various adaptations.
Description
The story, in all of its forms, describes the life of the fictional Russian physician and poet
Yuri Zhivago
Yuri Andreievich Zhivago is the protagonist and title character of the 1957 novel ''Doctor Zhivago (novel), Doctor Zhivago'' by Boris Pasternak.
Yuri Zhivago, a doctor and poet, is sensitive nearly to the point of mysticism. Zhivago's idealism ...
and deals with love and loss during the turmoil of the
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution, social change in Russian Empire, Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia Dissolution of the Russian Empire, abolish its mona ...
and war.
Adaptations
Media using the name ''Doctor Zhivago'' includes the following:
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''Doctor Zhivago'' (novel), a 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak
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''Doctor Zhivago'' (film), a 1965 film adaptation by David Lean
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''Doctor Zhivago'' (TV series), a 2002 TV drama serial by Giacomo Campiotti, starring Hans Matheson
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''Doctor Zhivago'' (musical), a 2011 musical, composed by Lucy Simon
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