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I adore movies. I can trace my love to when I was a little boy sitting on the couch with my father watching Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne on the television. In a big family getting alone time with a parent is tough, especially if that parent has to work long hours putting food on the table and shoes on your feet. My siblings never loved movies like I did. So, it was just the two of us.

It was little wonder I wanted to see every Academy Award-winning film ever made. In a pre-Internet age, this was an ambitious goal. A person had to be either lucky enough to be home when a movie aired or have VHS tapes. I spent hours at my local mom and pop video store. Sadly, its selection of movies was always hit and miss.

When I was about fourteen, I was at my grandparents’ place and was looking at their VHS tapes, trying to decipher my grandmother’s handwriting on the movie stickers to see what she had taped off of television when I read the words Doctor Zhivago.

I was thrilled beyond belief. Even though Doctor Zhivago did not win Best Picture in 1966, losing out to The Sound of Music, it is considered a classic and took home five other Oscars that year. The relationship between Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and Lara (Julie Christie) is considered one of the most romantic couplings in the history of cinema.

There are a lot interesting facts about Doctor Zhivago. It is an epic Russian masterpiece with no actor of Russian descent in any of the key roles played by an international cast. Shot in Spain, during a Marxist rally scene, police showed up ready to bust heads thinking a real Marxist rally was taking place. The revolutionary songs sung by the crowd caused several people to believe the government had been over thrown.

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During the filming of the movie, it was an unusually warm winter. So, in scenes featuring ice and snow, it is really wax and flakes of plaster that the audience is looking

One of the most highly anticipated historical novels to hit shelves this fall was Lara Prescott’s The Secrets We Kept (Hutchinson, September 2019). Selected for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club for September 2019, the novel was also nominated as a Best Debut Novel in the 11th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards. The film and TV rights have already been optioned.

Prescott’s novel reveals the intriguing true-life espionage plot behind Boris Pasternak’s beloved novel, Doctor Zhivago. Set mainly in the US and the USSR in the 1950s, the two main protagonists in The Secrets We Kept are Sally Forrester and Irina Drozdov. Both women work as typists in the male-dominated CIA, but they are actually spies. Sally, the veteran spy, trains Irina and their mission is to first smuggle Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR in order to publish it and then they must disseminate banned copies of Doctor Zhivago to Soviet citizens. The goal of this mission is to make people in the USSR question their government and expose the realities of communist life. The other half of The Secrets We Kept is told from the perspective of Boris Pasternak and his lover Olga Ivinskaya, the inspiration behind the character of Lara in Doctor Zhivago.

While Sally and Irina are fictional characters, the covert spycraft behind Doctor Zhivago is entirely factual. The true-life back story of Doctor Zhivago first came to light in 2014, when 130 documents and declassified CIA files were released, exposing the CIA “Books Program” of the Cold War era. Up until that point, not many people knew about the story behind Doctor Zhivago and that the CIA viewed books as weapons during the Cold War, utilizing banned books to fight the Soviets and their propaganda.

Lara Prescott first learned about the history behind Doctor Zhivago in 2014 when her father sent her a Washington Post article about t

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Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
By Anna Pasternak
Ecco
310 pp; $34.99

It’s standard for biographers of writers to chronicle the sacrifice the artist makes for his muse. As Anna Pasternak evinces in Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago, the muse often suffers as well.

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Lara is the account of the tempestuous and often tragic love affair between renowned Soviet novelist and poet Boris Pasternak and his mistress Olga Ivinskaya, who became the inspiration for Lara – the heroine of Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak’s novel that shook Soviet society and the world. By the time the already legendary Boris met Olga, he was in the middle of a loveless marriage, his second.

Doctor Yuri Zhivago (1885-1935) was a famous multi-talented Russian doctor. Among his many lifetime and posthumous achievements, he is best known for the Lara cycle of poems that he penned. He is also the person who holds the record for most times seen crying in a film.

Medicine[edit | edit source]

Zhivago specialized in warmedicine. He was introduced to this important specialty when he was conscripted into the Red Army as a field doctor. Being a principled egalitarian, he subsequently saw to it that he was kidnapped by the opposing Partisan resistance forces, so that he could help them out as a field doctor and in the process, get even more experience in war medicine.

Later, his vast war medicine experience was useful and lucrative for him in terms of consultancy work on the World War I era war movie, "All is Quiet on the Western Front", and its failed sequel "Going For It, Hammer and Tongs On The Eastern Front".

Marriage and Love[edit | edit source]

He married his stepsister, Tonya, as he wanted her to marry well. He was lover to beautiful Lara Antipova, his co-worker war nurse, in her time of need when she was lonely, and continued the affair with Lara whenever she needed him. One could never fault the considerate Zhivago for caring about others.

Poetry[edit | edit source]

The 105-poem cycle of Lara poems is Zhivago’s main legacy. Despite stylistic similarities between the poems, scholars of Russian literature are unanimous in their assessment that each extant Lara poem is an original and distinct literary jewel.

Virtually all of the poems were written by him during his winter sojourn with Lara at his in-laws' summer mansion at Varikino.

Below are two of the best Lara poems, translated into English, and reproduced with the kind consent of Zhivago’s estate.

Science[edit | edit source]

While at medical school, Zh