Doctor Zhivago Characters

Poor Little BoyThe first thing we find out about Doctor Zhivago in this book is that he wasn't always Doctor Zhivago.Yup, this dude used to be a cute little kid.Now, little Yuri had to grow up pret...

Practical StudentLara can be a tough character to pin down, because it's hard to tell how much of her character is actually her and how much of it is what our main man Zhivago sees in her.That's wh...

Antonina (Tonya) Alexandrovna Gromeko is a loving, supportive wife… to a fault. She's so devoted to Yuri Zhivago that she basically serves as his emotional doormat for a lot of this book.We know...

Scumbag MosquitoFolks, this dude's name comes from the Russian word for "mosquito."That should tell you all you need to know.We mean, if you're looking for an insect—or an antagonist—in this bo...

Of all the characters in Doctor Zhivago, Antipov has to be one of the hardest to figure out. In the beginning, he seems like a pretty straightforward dude. He's a young man who lives in the same bu...

Evgraf is the half-brother of Yuri Zhivago, the son that Yuri's father had with a European woman who was apparently some sort of royalty.Evgraf is almost impossible to pin down. He first shows up a...

In the beginning sections of Doctor Zhivago, it seems like Misha Gordon's going to be a main character. It doesn't happen, though: the guy kind of fades to the margins of the book as the story unfo...

He isn't in the book for very long, but Yuri Zhivago's beloved uncle Nikolai is crucial for making Zhivago into the man he grows up to be. Above all else, the man believes deeply in the power of th...

Of all the characters who cross paths with Doctor Zhivago in this book, Liberius Mikulitsyn annoys him more than anyone. Don't get us wrong, Liberius is a brave and intelligent young man: "Libka fa...