In 1958, Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for outstanding achievements in modern lyric poetry, as well as for continuing the traditions of the great Russian epic novel,” but for his fellow countrymen the award became firmly associated with the novel “Doctor Zhivago.” A sweeping epic, a gripping love story, and a tragic testimony to a long-suffering era—this work is rightly considered one of the greatest novels in both Russian and world literature.