I recently stumbled on one of my all-time favorite movies on TV. It was the 1965 film of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, ...

Sir David's letters show that the epic tale of romance set against the backdrop of the Russian revolution might have been even longer than it was if it had not been for the hit sixties drama Z-Car.

Rachmaninoff wanted to recreate the world as it once was. He was the last of the great Romantic composers. Fortunately, there are still pianists and conductors and listeners and critics such as Fiona ...

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February 1890 – 30 May 1960), a Soviet ... Some of the events in Pasternak’s most famous novel “Doctor Zhivago” take place in Vsevolodo-Vylva. The short stay in Perm ...

Boris Pasternak put his signature on every page he wrote. His lyric poems, letters, memoirs brim with personal feeling. Even Dr Zhivago is as much autobiography as epic. By contrast his son Evgeny, ...

Books, passed on in “flying libraries”, reached many. I remember my mother reading Doctor Zhivago in a single night so she could hand it to the next person. Funding was nearly cut more than once.