The Story of Doctor Zhivago | The Folio Society

In this film, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, an eminent translator of Dostoevsky and Pushkin and nephew of Boris Pasternak explains the story of Boris Pasternak’s only novel, Doctor Zhivago and why it was so controversial and disturbing to the Soviet regime.

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of 20th-century Russia, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of Yuri Zhivago, a poet and physician who finds himself drawn into a battle between the Bolshevik Red Army and the anti-Communist Whites and torn between his love of two women.

Lavishly decorated with more than 60 illustrations by the author’s father, Leonid Pasternak, selected by academic and author Maya Slater, this spectacular volume brings together the creative brilliance of three generations of Pasternaks.

Bound in leather and hand-marbled paper, and gilded on all three page edges, this edition is a work of art both in its content and binding. Limited to 750 hand-numbered copies, each edition is signed by the translator. Now available exclusively from The Folio Society.

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