About the book: 2022 / Book by the famous literary historian, Doctor of Philology Boris Sokolov, author of the bestsellers "Dostoevsky Deciphered" and "Gogol Deciphered" , tells about the main secrets of the legendary novel by Boris Pasternak “Doctor Zhivago”, included in the Russian school curriculum. The author gives answers to many questions that invariably arise when reading this great book, which became perhaps the most famous novel of the 20th century. Who became the prototype of the main characters of the novel? How were love stories and other facts of the biography of Boris Pasternak himself reflected in Doctor Zhivago? was Pasternak’s relationship with Stalin refracted in the novel and how did Marshal Tukhachevsky end up on its pages? How did the great Russian poet receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for this novel and why was he forced to refuse it? Why did the authorities not like the novel and how was the persecution of its author organized? How Pasternak’s attitude towards Soviet power and the October Revolution of 1917, his passion for the ideas of anarchism were transformed in the images of the heroes of Doctor Zhivago?