One of the most interesting and relevant is Olga, mistress of Pasternak until his death. Different characters based on real-life people relate their particular part in the story over a period of a few years in the 1950s. Prescott has created a wonderful fictional account of the true story behind the publication of Dr. and anyone found to possess a copy was considered a traitor and sent to the gulag. Consequently, it was banned from publication in the U.S.S.R. The Soviet government, however, interpreted it as a put-down of the great revolution and considered it nothing short of treason. Zhivago and perceive it as a classic love story between the beautiful Lara and Dr. Thanks to the movie, we’re all familiar with the story of Dr. After the death of Stalin, Pasternak devoted himself to finishing a novel that he’d been labouring over for more than ten years. Stalin even prevented Pasternak from suffering the fate of other writers who were deported to gulags in Siberia.

As a favourite of Joseph Stalin, the position came with certain benefits such as a premium dacha in a closely monitored colony of writers and intellectuals near Moscow. Boris Pasternak was one of Russia’s most famous and revered poets. With the first name of one of the lead characters, Lara Prescott was obviously born with an inherent interest in the novel and its story. Zhivago by famous Nobel-prize winning writer Boris Pasternak. It’s not a coincidence that Lara Prescott, the author of The Secrets We Kept is named after one of the main characters in Dr.

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