Boris Pasternak is a Nobel Prize winner, a brilliant poet, and the author of the famous novel 'Doctor Zhivago.'

'Doctor Zhivago' caused a huge literary scandal in the late 1950s and may have cost the poet his life. 'I made the whole world weep over the beauty of my land,' Pasternak himself wrote of his book. And we might add: was it not for this very purpose that the story of Yuri Zhivago's life and death was revealed to the world, so that once again 'the secret stream of suffering would warm the cold of existence'?