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"Doctor Zhivago" is a novel by Boris Pasternak, the pinnacle of his work as a prose writer. Drawing a broad canvas of the life of the Russian intelligentsia against the backdrop 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 Judaism.