Summary of the novel "Doctor Zhivago" in parts and chapters (B. Pasternak) * Reports

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Roman B. Pasternak, dedicated to the tragic fate of the intelligentsia in a revolutionary whirlwind, was highly praised by the international jury and awarded the Nobel Prize. This is a very complex and ornately written work that not everyone can understand the first time. To comprehend a text filled with symbols and images, you need to refer to it again and again. For the convenience of reading the book, the Literaguru team composed a brief retelling of the novel in parts and chapters. We also offer you a detailed analysis of Pasternak's work, with its help you will be able to penetrate deeper into the thoughts of a genius writer.

First book

Part One: Five Hour Fast

Little Yuri Zhivago (this is his description) was part of a large procession reporting a far from happy event - the death of his mother (Marya Nikolaevna). Already at the grave, a boy who seemed too quiet and calm, sat down on the bare ground and sobbed the howling “little wolf cub”, and only one person in all black could calm him - Uncle Yuri and his brother Marya Nikolaevna (priest Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin).
Throughout the night in the monastery chambers, where the orphan slept with his uncle, the boy felt that the cold wind and drafts were the harbingers of something scary and scary, and only the conversations of the awakened uncle about Christ somehow helped to cope with the seemingly impending danger.
Little Jura did not really know anything about his father's ramblings, the revelry that he arranged for, losing his millionth fortune at various fairs at the time when the abandoned mother fell ill with consumption. Treatment in the south of France yielded nothing, the woman was weakening. But he still remembered when factories, banks and manufactories, even rum women, were named after their last name - Zhivago. Now - there was only a barely visible trace left, "they are impoverished," the author writes.
In the summer of 1903, Yuri and his uncle went to Duplyanka, on the estate of the silk-spinning factory Kologrivoy and to the teacher Ivan Ivanovich Voskoboinikov. Yura liked Duplyanka because Voskoboinikov lived with Nick Dudorev, a gymnasium student (2 years older), with whom he had, one might say, friendly relations. While they were driving, the adults talked about how the people have disbanded recently: they killed a merchant, burned a stud farm, etc. The interlocutors are inclined to the fact that it is necessary to tighten the nuts, otherwise ordinary people will kill and destroy everything that is.
While Uncle Yuri was discussing the “Christian issue” with Voskoboinikov (the priest proved that Christ is the basis of culture and progress, and the gospel gives all living things an incentive to move forward), and the children were busy with their “children’s activities”, the train whistled, which, according to Voskoboinikov, was heard in the distance , "There was no reason to stop." Strangeness and nothing more.
Wandering around the house, Yura slipped into a ravine and cried for a long time about his mother, called her from the sky, and prayed. Then he lost consciousness, but woke up and remembered that he had not prayed for his missing father. He postponed this lesson because he did not remember him at all.
In the second-class compartment, the train rode 11-year-old Misha Gordon, a gymnasium student from Orenburg. Someone said that a man jumped out of the carriage onto the rails and crashed to death, which is why an emergency stop occurred. Misha knew this man who often came to them in the compartment and gave him all kinds of gifts in order to make amends for some “guilt” he mentioned. He also knew a lawyer - a man with a strange expression on his face, who was almost always next to this man. This suicide was the father of Yuri Zhivago. Before the tragedy, he drank for three months and said everything that he suffers inhuman torment.
Nika, to whom Yura arrived, ran away from home. This boy is a descendant of a political terrorist who is in hard labor for the murder. He, too, is eager to do the real thing, but so far he is playing with the neighbor's girl Nadia and wants to grow up.

Part Two: A Girl from Another Circle

While the war with Japan had not yet ended, and the revolutions were just beginning, the wife of engineer Amalia Karlovna Gishar came to Moscow from the Urals with two children: Lara and Rodion. She had some savings, so she bought a small sewing workshop on the advice of her lawyer - Komarovsky, who also advised her to send the boy to the "cadets" and the girl to the girls' gymnasium.
Amalia Karlovna, a frivolous and loving woman, “received” Komarovsky quite often, which in every possible way provoked her workers to shout after him like “buffalo” and “woman’s corruption”. To put it mildly, he inspired distrust and rejection. This widow was all afraid to lose the inheritance from her deceased husband, so she mercilessly saved the budget: she and the children lived in dirty furnished rooms.
Lara made friends with employee Olya Demina. An atmosphere of honesty and decency reigned in the workshop. Only now, Amalia Karlovna did not feel herself the mistress of this matter, he was always nervous, afraid to burn out.
Lara was a little over sixteen years old, but in beauty and “forms” she looked like an adult lady. The relationship of Komarovsky and Lara can be judged not only by his private exits with her into the "light", but also by the "closed hatred" that Lara felt for her "patron".
Near the Brest Railway, where the Gishar family’s housing is located, Pavel Antipov also lives - a road foreman who was infected by “revolutionary sentiments”. This chapter describes how he complains to his superiors about poor materials for the road. His words are ignored, because in this case the bosses make good money, because Fuflygin has expensive clothes, he has his own departure, etc.
Antipov and Tiversin come from an underground meeting of revolutionaries, there was talk of a strike. Tiversin goes to the city, where he gets into a fight, saving a boy who is beaten by the master Khudoleev.
Tiversin comes home and finds out that Antipov is being arrested for a strike organized by him. He is also recommended to hide, they are already looking for him.
The son of Antipov, Pashka now settled with the Tiberzins. Seeing the "uprising" of the Cossacks in 1905, he decides to choose his own path, consonant with his father.
Jura, at the insistence of his uncle, was identified as a “Moscow family” of Gromeko - educated people, true music lovers and good friends of Nikolai Nikolaevich.
His friend Vyvolochnov comes to Uncle Yura, they argue that humanity will save: beauty and faith, or schools and hospitals? Nikolai Nikolaevich is annoyed; he was unable to convince the interlocutor of anything.
It describes the luxurious life of a lawyer Komarovsky in a bachelor apartment.
After the intimacy with Komarovsky, which nevertheless happened, Lara feels herself to be immoral and a fallen woman, while the lawyer begins to feel a new feeling for her, called "love." Lara is trying to find solace in something that will help her get rid of self-hatred.
Komarovsky realizes that he is seriously in love with a girl, he is angry with himself and beats his dog.
Lara realizes that she is flattered by the attention of an adult man, so she is torn between the desire to end their relationship and the desire to continue them.
The heroine understands how a lover depends on her. However, her family also depends on him, because her mother does not understand anything in matters without his help.
Lara sees Komarovsky deceiving her, promising to marry her and open her mother.
The girl goes to church and experiences a painful awareness of her fall.
After meeting with Lara, he realizes that she is the meaning of his whole life ... Lara does not reciprocate, as she believes that she is already much older than all her peers. Amalia Karlovna decides to go to Montenegro for a while, until the "shooting ceases", riots around the house became more frequent.
The strike dragged on, the Lara family was cut off from the entire outside world by barricades. She rejoices that until she sees her tormentor. All workshop personnel are on strike. Amalia Karpovna cries and scolds ungrateful servants.
The Gromyko family, where Yura was sent to, has a daughter, Tonya, who becomes “third” in the strong company of Yuri Zhivago and Misha Gordon. During the visit of the cellist Tyszkiewicz, he urges the family to visit him in Montenegro. This is what happens, but during the visit of Yura, Misha and Alexander Alexandrovich, an unforeseen circumstance occurs that Yura will not be able to forget for a long time.
Amalia Karlovna, lying in her room, tried to set off, but not successfully: Alexander Alexandrovich with Yura and Misha came to the call, the beautiful Lara and Komarovsky stood in the room - their manner of communication prompted Yura with strange thoughts. Lara hits the heart of Jura. As soon as Amalia Karlovna regains consciousness, Misha and Yura go out into the street, there is Yura and learns from Misha that Komarovsky is the same lawyer from the train that was with Father Zhivago.

Part Three: The Christmas Tree at Sventitsky

In this part of the chapter are very small, so we reproduce their shortest content without separation.

Anna Ivanovna (Tony’s mother) Alexander Alexandrovich gives a large closet, but joy is saddened by a quick sadness: during its “assembly”, the closet breaks, and Anna Ivanovna falls - resulting in a predisposition to pulmonary diseases.

In 1911, Jura, Misha and Tonya graduated from their educational institutions and became doctors, philologists and lawyers. At the same time, Yura begins to get involved in poetry, the read by Misha becomes for him the “gift” that Zhivago possesses. Yura, however, believes that it is not necessary to earn this, since poetry is not a profession, but a “work of the soul”.

Inflammation of the lungs of Anna Ivanovna causes more and more pain, as a result of which Yura himself tries to treat the patient. He heals not only the body, but also the soul of Tony's mother: he speaks of the immortality of the soul and fearlessness before death. After this conversation, Anna Ivanovna becomes much better, and she is recovering.

Anna Ivanovna sends Yura and Tonya to the Sventitsky tree, as she believes that young people should unwind and give them prophetic instruction. If Anna Ivanovna becomes worse and she dies, then Yura and Tonya should get married, as they are "conscious of each other."

While Yura and Tonya were studying at the institute, Lara, after that terrible incident with her mother, was always under the care of Komarovsky, and therefore decided to find an independent “field”. She got a job as a teacher with the younger sister of Nadya Kologrivova - Lipa, thanks to this she saved up not a small amount of money in order to finally find something “her”. But this was not destined to come true, so her brother Rodion, returning to Moscow, asks Lara for the money that he lost in the cards, explaining that he would shoot himself without them. Lara gives him all the savings, borrowing at the same time a certain amount of money from Komarovsky. Rodion Lara’s revolver takes himself, practicing shooting.

Lipa - the girl Lara brought up has already grown up, so Lara believes that she has become superfluous for this family, but she still does not dare to leave - she has a duty to Komarovsky. The only salvation for the young Lara is to go live in the village, in solitude and peace. She again decides to borrow money from Komarovsky, the lawyer she hates, and meanwhile, he is at the Svetnitsky’s Christmas tree. Lara decides to take a revolver with her in case of insults in her direction. In order to finally “end” her past life, she decides to go to her longtime admirer Pasha Antipov and ask him to get married as soon as possible so as not to “delay” because of her problems. Pasha Antipov agrees and puts a candle on the table - it was at that moment that Yura and Tonya went to the Christmas tree in the sleigh, and here the poem "The Candle Burned" was born in the minds of the beginning poet.

At the Christmas tree, Yura and Tonya rediscover each other: Tonya for Yura becomes not just a friend, but a charming girl, who has become especially dear to him. However, his happiness from the “new feeling” is interrupted by a shot - it was Lara who tried to shoot Komarovsky. It turned out to be unsuccessful. Yura runs into the room where the shots are heard, in place she sees Lara lying almost unconscious on the sofa, Komarovsky and the prosecutor’s comrade Kornakov, in whom Lara got aiming at a lawyer. He is slightly injured, therefore Zhivago becomes his attending physician at this moment. Komarovsky, meanwhile, takes Lara away, trying to “hush up” this matter.

Yura and Tonya are urgently called home. Anna Ivanovna dies, she is buried in the same cemetery as Marya Nikolaevna.

Part Four: Overdue Inevitability

This part is also given in abbreviation, without division into chapters, since they are all very small in volume.

Lara lies almost in “unconsciousness”, heavily worrying about what happened. She tells Pasha that "is not worthy of his love," so they must leave. Pasha is trying to attribute these words to the "delirium" in which she is.

Pasha and Lara get married and decide to leave to live in Yuryatin, where Pasha was offered a job, but Lara is also not going to remain “idle” there. Komarovsky in every possible way tries to find the girl and come to her in a new house in order to "see", she resolutely refuses. Under pressure from Pasha, Lara decides to talk about her “special relationship” with a lawyer so that there is not a single secret between her lovers, but Arkhmpov’s reaction slows down Larin’s thoughts. He thinks that he has become a different person, and he will never be the same again.

There is a second year of war. Yuri and Tony have a son - Alexander, named after his wife's father. Yuri is torn between the good practice of a doctor and the custody of a new member of the family, so Tonya took care of the child. Zhivago is sent to the army, where he meets Misha Gordon.

The daughters of Pasha and Lara - Katya are already 3 years old. Mother is busy with French, which teaches children in elementary grades, while her father teaches ancient history and Latin. But, despite the external well-being, there is a discord within the family: Pasha believes that Lara married him not because of love (she, in his opinion, does not love him at all), but because of a sense of self-sacrifice to rid herself of what happened "Horrors" of her fate. Late at night, Antipov leaves his daughter and wife at a military school, from where he falls to the front so as not to be a burden to them.

Pasha, being inside the hostilities, understands that his departure is stupidity, and therefore - decides to return, but disappears under the shelling of his company. Learning about this, Lara gives Katya to Lipa's care, and she goes to the place where her husband served to find him. She feels the deepest guilt before this virtuous man.

Yusupka, the son of a janitor in the courtyard in which Amalia Karlovna lived with her children, fought along with Antipov. It was he who was supposed to write a letter to Lara stating that he died, but could not - there were fierce battles. Lara, having arrived at the hospital, becomes a sister of mercy and sees Yusupka. He can not tell the poor woman about the fate of her husband, so he tells her that he is in captivity, but the spouse knows that this is a lie. Zhivago, seeing Lara, hesitates to tell her that he recognized her as a girl on a Christmas tree. Communication is fastened. The first revolution took place in Petersburg.

Part Five: Farewell to the Old

Next are small novels, we will also briefly describe them, otherwise the story dragged on.

Inside the village, where Lara and Yuri “work,” some changes begin to take place: they are being identified in a new place where they will have to perform some functions. They come to a large house, once the home of a wealthy landowner, who has now given it to the "refuge" of soldiers. Lara and Jura live almost together, but still maintain official relations, despite their external nature.Tonya wrote a letter to Yuri in which she said that her husband should stay in the Urals with a “sister”, emphasizing in every way that she “loves him anyway”. Zhivago was supposed to leave for Moscow, but constant troubles with the sick did not allow him to do what he intended, so on the last day of his stay in the house, he decides to explain to Lara that there can be nothing but warm, friendly relations between them. However, his speech ends with a declaration of love to Larisa.

Part six: Moscow camp

Yuri arrives home in Moscow, Tonya kisses her husband from the doorway and tells him to forget all that she wrote to him. Little Sasha does not recognize his father, both parents pretend that everything is in order, but the child begins to cry at the sight of Yuri, who is trying to hug him - Tonya understands that this is far from a good sign.

Communication with Misha Gordon does not bring Yuri any joy, he believes that he behaves too cheerful, or rather pretends. Uncle Zhivago - Nikolai Nikolaevich - also does not help a man to join the situation, he now and then behaves too "strange". The hero understands that there is nothing left of his "old" uncle - now he is haunted by "unfinished books, an unfinished novel and an unfinished stay in Russia." Zhivago gather guests at his place, where Yuri makes a toast that all that they experienced in 5 years is commensurate with what other peoples experienced for centuries.

Yuri tries to feed his family and begins to work in the Krestovozdvizhensky hospital to raise money for at least the firewood needed for the house. Part of the Zhivago building was given to the Agricultural Academy, the other part is barely heated. Yuri learns from the purchased newspaper that power has changed in Russia - from tsarist to Soviet.

The hero is trying to find money to feed his family, so he takes on any work. Once, he begins to treat a woman who is sick with typhoid, but for her hospitalization she needs painting and sending a house committee - she turned out to be Olya Demina, Larina’s friend. Demina tells Zhivago that Lara did not want to come to Moscow, despite all sorts of persuasion and help from the outside.

Yuri falls ill with typhus. Evgraf, the half-brother of Yuri, arrives at the house, who brings the family food and urgently tries to send them to the village of Varykino, where Tony’s grandfather’s house is located. Nearby is Yuryatin.

Part Seven: On the Road

Zhivago go by train to the Urals, to the village of Varykino. Wagons ceased to resemble "classes", became a common "home" for all wandering. Among them was sixteen-year-old Vasya Brykin, who was “sold” to the army, which he himself could not understand until he was here. Driving through the Urals, the Yuri family finds out that there is a certain Strelnikov in the district, whom all living are afraid of.

He is incorruptible, angry and insane. Strelnikov is not white. During a train stop, Zhivago decides to get off the train, but notices how Vaska and other people flee from the railway in a hurry, sentries shoot at them. The hero will continue to refer to what he sees for a long time. At the same time, they notice him and, mistaking for a spy, lead to Strelnikov in a separate train, standing on rails. It turned out that the dead Antipov is a live Strelnikov. He tells Zhivago that they are still destined to meet, and therefore - lets him go.

Book Two

In this book, all parts are small, we will retell them completely, without division into chapters.

Part Eight: Arriving

The new owners of Varykino are evil and distrustful people, since they believe that Tonya came to take away their land, like her grandfather.

The cold reception will end quite optimistically: the Mikulitsins give Zhivago land and a house. Tonya and Yuri are trying to farm to feed their families.

Part Nine: Varykino

Yuri Zhivago writes his diary, in which he reflects on the meaning of life and his place in it, comes to the conclusion that his goal is “to serve, treat, write.” He and his wife live in friendship, peace and solitude, telling each other their opinions about home, art and nature - these thoughts fill almost all of their evenings. But the folded idyll falls apart when Yevgraf comes to them - the stepbrother of Yuri, to whom he gave all the remaining inheritance, when Yuri was only sixteen years old.

Zhivago, being in Yuryatin, wanted to go to the local library, where he saw Lara, but was unable to approach her. Every day he traveled to the city in the hope that she would see him and speak ...

Yuri finds out the address of Larisa and decides to go to her house, but, seeing her near the house with full buckets of water, understands that Lara is a man with a strong temper, and decides to help her. She introduces him to her daughter Katya, and explains that Strelnikov is her husband, simultaneously asking Zhivago about his meeting with him.

Lara and Yuri become lovers and commit adultery - adultery. Tortured, Yuri will decide to tell Tony about the betrayal and end his relationship with Lara, but on the way to Vyrykino he turns the wagon and goes back to see Lara again. Partisans grab him near her house and take him away ...

Part Ten: On the Highway

Yuri spent two long years in captivity, observing the hardships of life of howling, understanding his place in life and talking on philosophical topics about being. Once he observes a terrible picture: a sick horse is mercilessly cut, despite his healthy spirit and strength - this spectacle becomes a harbinger of fate for Zhivago.

The Civil War divides everything into friends and foes, and the doctor helps everyone in need.

Part Eleven: The Forest Army

A shootout begins in the woods. Yuri, who has sworn to himself all his life that he does not make lives, but saves them, picks up a gun and kills three people, aiming at a tree. He notices that one person remains alive, but is badly wounded. Zhivago decides to take him under his supervision and nurses him, constantly endangering himself. After recovery, Yuri lets him go.

The cruel killer Pamfil Palykh - a man who is in the detachment, kills his own children so that they will not be killed by enemies when they come for them. He was not the only one who was obsessed with his grief and vice.

Part Twelve: Rowan in Sugar

Yuri held back from the partisans. He went to Lara’s home, where he found a note stating that now Yuri has a daughter born to Tony. Yuri is absorbed in thoughts about the family.

Passing the streets that were familiar to him, he did not recognize this city, in which new decrees from the new government hang. Zhivago does not understand how he could consider their language beautiful and direct.

Yuri gets to Lara, but falls unconscious, waking up only when he sees Larisa in front of him. All the time when Zhivago was delirious, she looked after him like a wife, telling about the fate of Tony, who is in Moscow. Yuri recognizes a woman in love.

Yura, Lara and Katya become a real family. Zhivago works in a hospital where he is appreciated for his sharp mind and ability to make quick decisions when “medicine requires it”. Soon, he notices that behind his thoughts people - the heads of the hospital - see the urge for revolutionary convictions. Lara also has her own problems: Antipov Sr. and Tiverzin, who were identified as members of the Revolutionary Tribunal, are returning to Yuryatino. She is afraid for her daughter's life. Yuri offers to go to Varykino.

A letter comes from Tony stating that Alexander misses his father and his daughter’s name is Maria (in honor of Yuri’s mother). The doctor’s wife knows about the relationship between Lara and Yuri, but says only that Lara “leads him astray”, while she herself considers her a good girl. Tonya admits that she is raising children with love for her father in Paris, where they are sent from Moscow.

Yuri falls unconscious after reading a letter.

Part fourteen: Again Varykino

In Varykino, Yuri again takes up poetry, while Lara cares not only about the decoration of the house, but also about the owner.

News arrives that Strelnikov was caught and about to be shot - this was reported by Komarovsky, who arrived, who invites Lara and Yuri to leave with him on a train to the Far East. To protect his beloved, Yuri agrees, while deceiving Lara. He sends a family with Komarovsky, promising to catch up with them.

In Varykino, Yuri can hear the voices of Katya and Lara, but they are drowned out by the howling of the wolves. The hero decides to go out to drive them away from the house, but notices a person in front of him - this is Strelnikov. Yuri lets him in, they talk about Lara. The guest says that he loved Lara, but tried to defend the freedom of the people, so their relationship did not work out. In the morning he shot himself.

Part Fifteen: The End

Yuri walks from Varykino to Moscow on foot, but there does not find anything dear to his heart. He decides to move to Muchnoy Gorodok, where he soon gives birth to two girls from the daughter of a janitor - Marina. Zhivago maintains contact with Tonya and Misha Gordon. Suddenly, he disappears, transferring a large amount of money in the name of Marina. It turns out that he lives very close to his new family, and the money is the property of his brother Evgraf. He pays for his stepbrother, promising to take him to his family and settle all his “important issues”, while Yuri writes poetry and can do nothing with his fate.

Yuri rides in a stuffy tram, he feels bad, he decides to get out and falls dead on bare asphalt. Larisa came to say goodbye to him, who confesses to Evgraf that she gave birth to Yuri a daughter - Tatyana.

Epilogue

In the summer of 1943, Evgraf-General found Tatyana, who worked as a clothes line in the Soviet Army. It turned out that Misha Gordon and Dudorev had long known Tatyana when they were in camps in the thirties. Zhivago's half-brother invites the girl to triple her to college.

Ten years later, Gordon and Dudorev decide to re-read Zhivago's notebook, which says that