Doctor Zhivago (classic Translation)
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Yuli Zhivago's mother died when he was only ten years old, and his father, who went bankrupt due to his extravagant spending, disappeared without a trace. The future father-in-law, the kind-hearted professor Alexander Gromyko, adopted the orphaned Zhivago. Misha Gordon and Tonya Gromeko became his playmates and most loyal friends. The young Zhivago loved to read poetry and began to write poetry. However, after graduating from high school, he was admitted to the university's medical major. At this time, a widow named Amalia Karlovna Kesar came to Moscow with her two children - Rodion and Lalisa. Relying on her lover relationship with the wealthy lawyer Komarovsky, the widow quickly settled in the city and opened a sewing shop. However, the lawyer soon defiled the young Lalisa and made her fall. The girl felt very painful for her moral degradation. Soon Larisa met Pavel Antipov, the son of a worker. For the girl, friendship with the ordinary and kind-hearted boy became the joy of her life. The fate of the protagonists in the novel gradually becomes a tightly wound ball of thread. Zhivago married Tonya, but in his heart he still held the beauty Lalisa. After graduating from school, Pasha (Pavel) Antipov married Larysa. After their marriage, they left Moscow to work as teachers in the Ural Mountains. But thrust unceremoniously into the lives of these protagonists were the First World War and the revolution that followed. Against the backdrop of national chaos, they suffered tragedies in their personal lives. Zhivago returned to Moscow after experiencing war, being captured, starving, separated from his family, etc. He saw a specious image of Lalisa from a distance on the street. Myocardial infarction caused by overly excited emotions dealt him a heavy blow. He fell on the streets of Moscow. At this time, he was only thirty-seven years old, leaving behind him wonderful poems and wonderful thought notes.
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