Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Short summary

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After his mother’s death, his uncle takes Yura to Professor Gromeko’s family, where his classmate Misha also lived. One day he tells Yura that he knows who ruined his father.

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After his mother’s death, Yuri is taken in by his uncle. The boy’s father left the family long ago. His mother tells Yura that he is in St. Petersburg. But, in fact, the man often traveled, because of which he squandered the entire fortune of the family.

Misha Gordon and his father take the train to Moscow. A drunken suicidal man throws himself from the train. The deceased man manages to tell that he had two sons and two families.

Revolutionary unrest begins in Russia. The widow Gishar comes to Moscow with her son Rodion and daughter Larissa. Once the widow lets her daughter go with an acquaintance of a lawyer to a birthday party, after which there is a secret connection between them.

The Gishar family finds themselves in the rebellion zone and is forced to move to a hotel. The uncle leaves Yura in the family of Professor Gromeko, where his classmate Misha Gordon and the hosts’ daughter Tonya also lived.

The professor is summoned to the hotel to see Gishar’s widow, who has tried to poison herself. He, along with Yura and Misha, meets Lara and a strange man there. After a while, Misha tells him that the man killed Yura’s father.