Doctor Zhivago | Characters
As one of Russia's greatest lyric poets, Pasternak inevitably incorporated autobiographical details into Yuri Zhivago, just as Zhivago's wife Tonya and his lover Lara possess traits discernible in Pasternak's own wife Zinaida and his mistress Olga Ivinskaya, but Zhivago is far more than a mirror of his creator. Shortly before his death, Pasternak wrote that he had seen three individuals transfigured — his close friend Dmitri Samarin; surprisingly, Lenin; and the fictional hero of Tolstoy's Resurrection, Prince Nekhludov; some critics believe that Pasternak incorporated all three...
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