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      Doctor Zhivago: Is the 1965 Film Based on a Real Love Story?
      • Boris Pasternak’s inspiration behind the novel was apparently his own love affair with a woman named Olga Ivinskaia, as told through the letters, manuscripts, and poems written by Pasternak that were discovered after Olga’s death in 1995.
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  2. Doctor Zhivago (/ ʒ ɪ ˈ v ɑː ɡ oʊ / zhiv-AH-goh; [1] Russian: До́ктор Жива́го, IPA: [ˈdoktər ʐɨˈvaɡə]) is a novel by Russian poet, author and composer Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy.

  3. Sep 4, 2015 · Boris Pasternak, Russia’s greatest living poet, hands a copy of his unpublished novel “Doctor Zhivago” to an Italian book scout intent on smuggling it out of the country. Understanding the risks of his action, Pasternak reportedly comments, “You are hereby invited to my execution.”

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  4. May 22, 2023 · No, Doctor Zhivago is not a true story. Written by Robert Bolt, the screenplay was adapted from the eponymous novel by Boris Pasternak, which was published in 1957. The novel, for which Pasternak received the Nobel Prize for Literature, was quite controversial in the USSR as it had anti-Communist sentiments weaved into it.

  5. Pasternak was the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the First World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy and was first published there in 1957.

  6. It wasn't until 1988 that "Doctor Zhivago" was finally published in the Soviet Union, and the following year when Yevgeny was allowed to go to Oslo and retrieve his father's denied prize.

  7. Jan 27, 2017 · In 1949, unable to arrest Pasternak for his private readings of drafts of the anti-Soviet “Doctor Zhivago,” the secret police arrested Olga instead. She spent several years in a labor camp but...

  8. Nov 10, 1996 · For the character of Lara in Boris Pasternak's Nobel prize-winning masterpiece, "Dr. Zhivago," was based on his mistress, Olga Ivinskaia, the woman he loved until he died in May, 1960.

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