Sunday, July 18, 2010

"Dr Zhivago" Analysis

My next entries will include:

  • Analysis of the characterisation of both Tonya and Lara
  • I then hope to compare and contrast the characters of Tonya and Lara from Dr Zhivago with 0-90 and I-330 from Zamyatin's WE.
  • I would also like to explore how Marie from Camus's The Outsider relates to the female characters mentioned above.

I think this could be a possible starting point for my World Lit One Essay. I have previously looked at both Marie from The Outsider and I-330 from WE and am curious to see if these characters are at all linked or similar to Tonya and/or Lara from Dr Zhivago.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Characters of "Dr Zhivago"

Marya Nikolayevna - Yury Zhivago's mother

Yury Andreyvich Zhivago/Yura/Yurochka - Dr Zhivago

Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin/Uncle Kolya - Yury's Uncle (Marya's brother)

Ivan Ivanovich Voskoboynikov - Teacher and writer. Acquaintance of Uncle Kolya.

Pavel - Ivanovich's odd job man.

Nicky Dudorov - Boy two years older than Yury who lived with thw Voskoboynikovs.

Kologrivov - Manager of the estate.

Nadya and Lipa Kolgrivov - Kologrivov's two daughters. Lipa was a pupil of Lara's when she lived with them.

Misha Gordon - Son of lawyer on the train.

Grigory Osipovich Gordon - Laywer on the train on which Zhivago committed suicide.

Tiverzina - Widow travelling on the Gordons train. Mother of two of the engine drivers.

Dementiy Dudorov - Nicky's father and terrorist.

Nadya Kologrivova- School girl and "friend" of Nicky's (15 at beginning of book). Becomes Lara's best friend at girls' high school.

Amalia Karlovna Guishar/Madame Guishar- Mother if Larissa and Rodyon. Widow of a Belgian engineer moved from the urals to Moscow.

Larissa Fyodorovna Guishar/Lara - Daughter of Amalia Guishar and sister of Rodya.

Rodyon Fyodorovna Guishar/ Rodya - Son of Amalia Guishar and brother of Lara.

Komarovsky/Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky - Lawyer and harsh business man. Lover to Lara. Lawyer to Zhivago.

Tishkevich - Neighbour to the Guishars.

Olya Demina/Comrade Demina - Worker at Madame Guishar's. Friend of Lara's. Lodger at the building where Galiullina lived.

Faina Silantyevana Fetisova - Senior cutter and assistant to Madame Guishar.

Fuflygin - Divisional Manager of the Station district.

Pavel Ferapontovich Antipov - Track Overseer of the Station district.

Tiverzin/Kuprian Savelich/Kuprinka - Train station worker. Strong political views.

Pyotr Khudoleyev - Old foreman of train station

Yusupka - Khudoleyev's apprentice. Son of Gimazetdin.

Gimazetdin - Porter at block of tenenments where Tiverzin lived.

Saveliy Nikitich - Tiverzin's father. Married Marfa who was Khudoleyev's love.

Prov Afanasyevich Sokolov - Church psalmist and relation of Tiverzin's mother.

Darya Antipov - Wife of Pavel Antipov.

Pasha/Pashenka/Pavel Povlovich Antipov/Lieutenabt Antipov - Son of Darya and Pavel. Married to Lara. Went to love with the Tiverzins'.

Sventitskys - Family Nikolay Nikolayevich stayed with when in Moscow.

Gromeko Family - Mother Father and Daughter Tonya.

Tonya/ Antonina Alexandrovich Gromeko/ - Yury's first wife.

Nil Feoktissovich/Vyvolochnov - Nikolayevich's business associate.

Emma Ernestovna - Komarovsky's housekeeper.

Constantine Illarionovich Satanidi - Actor and Gambler. Friend of Komarovsky.

Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko - Professor of Chemistry. Brother of Nikolay Gromeko. Married to Anna Gromeko. Father of Tonya.

Nikolay Alexandrovich Gromeko - Professor of Chemistry. Brother of Alexander Gromeko.

Anna Ivanovna Gromeko/nee Krueger - Married to Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko. Mother of Tonya.

Shura Schlesinger - Anna's best friend. Theosophist.

Markel - Handyman to the Gromekos'.

Marinka - Daughter of Markel.

Serafima Kologrivov - Wife of Kologrivov.

Koka Kornakov - Son of an assistant public prosecutor, leading the cotillon at the Christmas Party.

Felitsata Semionovna - Friend of Tonya. Present at the Christmas party.

Dr Drokov - Doctor at the Christmas party who helped take care of Lara after the shooting.

Ruffina Onissimovna Voit-Voitkovsky- Lawyer friend of Komarovsky. Offered a room to Lara where she stayed after the shooting.

Lyudmila Kapitonovna Chepurko - Mother of Tusya a fellow student of Lara's. Made arrangements for Lara and Pasha's wedding.

Katya Antipov- Lara and Pasha's daughter.

Marfutka - The Antipovs' maid.

Friesendank - Married to Lipa Kologrivov.

Galiullin/Yusupka/Osip Gimazetdinovich - Mechanic by trade. Son of Gimazetdin. Garrison Commander in the military. Leader of the White forces.

Karpenko - Yury's housekeeper in the military.

Sasha Zhivago/Sashenka - Yury's first child with his wife Tonya.

Countess Zhabrinskaya - Owner of the house offered to the red cross to be used as a hospital in the war in the district Razdolnoye.

Ustinya - Countess Zhabrinskaya's head cook.

Mademoiselle Fleury -Brought up the countess's two daughters.

Comissar Gintz/Gintze - Military leader.

Kolya Frolenko - Biryuchi telegraphist, Son of a clockmaker.

Maxim Aristarkhovich Klintsov-Pogorevshikh - Passenger on Yury's train when travelling back to Moscow.


Nyusha - Zhivagos' servant.

Wounded Man - Prominent Political Leader helped by Yury in the street.

Aunt Fatima/Galiullina - Caretaker on the house committee. Mother of Galiullin.

Khrapugina - House committee member at the Borough Council meeting

Yevgraf Zhivago- Yury's half brother.

Zevorotina - Neighbour of the Zhivago family while they were living in Moscow.

Voronyuk - Guard of conscripts in Zhivagos' coach on the way to Varykino.

Prokhor Pritulyev - Cashier in government wine shop in Petersburg. Also a passenger on the train. Married to a woman named Luga. Lived with a woman named Pelagia Tyagunova.

Vassya Brykin - Passenger on the train. Apprentice to an ironmonger and 16 at the time.

Kostoyed-Amursky - Revolutionary in the labour co-operative party also a passenger on the train travelling with the gaurd.

Pelagia Tyagunova/Auntie Polya - Accompanied Pritulyev on the journey.

Ogryskova/Aunty Katie/Katie Ogryskova - Also accompanied Pritulyev on the journey. Rival of Tyagunova.

Army Comissar Strelnikov - Pasha who was believed to be dead returned from prison in Germany and was vouched for by Tiverzin. He had all the qualitites that a leader of the time needed and he impressed "those who controlled appointments". Strelnikov was entrusted with new responsibilities and strategic decisions.

Samdevyatov/Anfim Yefimovich - First introduced on the train from Moscow. Solicitor and a bolshevik.

Avercius Mikulitsin - Married Agrippina Tuntsevas. Second wife was called Helen. He is a social revolutionary and is the regional delegate to the Contituent Assembly.

Agrippina, Avdotya, Glaphira (Glasha) and Serephima (Sima) Tuntsevas - Four sisters of Yuryatin.

Liberius Avercievich/Libby/Commrade Forrester - Son of Mikulitsin and Agrippina. Commands the Forest Brotherhood. Partisan Leader.

Ivan Ernestovich Krueger - Grandfather of Tonya Gromeko.

Bacchus Mekhonoshin - Friver who took the Zhivagos't to Varykino to meet the Mikulitsin.

Pvael Ferapontovich Antipov - Pasha's father. Aformer political convict and worker.

Kammenodvorsky - Liberius's Chief Liaison Officer.

Admiral Kolchak - Supreme Commander of the Whites

Galuzina - The grocer's wife from Holycross. Sister of Olya and Polya.

Vlas Galuzin- The grocer from Holycross. Married to Galuzina.

Teryoshka/Terenty Galuzin - Son of Vlas and Galuzina. Expelled from school.

Ksyusha Galuzin - Daughter of Vlas and Galuzina.

Zalkind - Owner of the chemist in Holycross.

Schmulevich - Ladies tailor in Holycross.

Kaminsky - Engraver in the same building of flats.

Zhuk and Strodakh - The two photographers who worked in partnership.

Blazhein - Young assistant of the photographers.

Kerenyi Lajos - A Hungarian doctor. Later worked with Yury.

Lidochka/Commrade Lidochka - Representative of the Central Committee.

Vdovichenko - "Black Banner". Partisan Follower.

Goshka Ryabikh - Friend of Terenty Galuzin.

Colonel Stese - Officer of the selection board.

Koska - Boy from Yermolay. Hid with Goshka and Terenty.

Sanka Pafnutkin - Troublesome military recruit.