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Piedad Kisner
Yuri Zhivago loses his mother to tuberculosis when he is 10 years old. Two years later, his father dies by suicide. The orphaned Yuri is raised by friends and family, eventually settling with the relatively wealthy Gromeko family. The Gromekos raise Yuri as though he is one of their own children, and their daughter Tonya becomes his best friend. He studies to become a doctor and plans to graduate in 1912.
Yuri fights for the Forest Brotherhood, spending 18 months as the division's doctor. He witnesses the full brutality of war, though the worst is the arrogant, foolish Commander Liberius Forester. As Mikulitsyn's son, he takes a particular interest in Yuri. When word comes that Varykino has been attacked, Yuri ignores Forester's dismissive attitude and returns to his family on foot. He marches for many weeks through the winter and arrives in Varykino to discover that his family has already fled to Moscow. Rather than pursue them, he moves into the house in Yuriatin that Lara shares with her daughter. They are happy for a few months, until they learn that the Bolshevik officials are searching for them. The officials also want to find Strelnikov (a pseudonym used by Pasha, it is revealed). Tonya writes to Yuri to say that she and her family are being deported to France. She still loves Yuri, even if he no longer loves her. She hopes he will be happy.
"Now," he said, "would you like to lie down on the couch and tellme about it? Some people have preconceived ideas that I don't wantto fight with at the beginning. Or, if you prefer, you can sitthere in front of my desk and tell me all about it. Remember, I'm apsychiatrist, a doctor, not just a psychoanalyst."
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