The book by the famous literary historian, Doctor of Philology Boris Sokolov, author of the bestsellers “Dostoevsky Deciphered” and “Gogol Deciphered”, tells about the main secrets of Boris Pasternak’s legendary novel “Doctor Zhivago”, included in the Russian school curriculum. The author gives answers to many questions that invariably arise when reading this great book, which became perhaps the most famous novel of the 20th century. Who became the prototype of the main characters of the novel? How were love stories and other facts from the biography of Boris Pasternak himself reflected in Doctor Zhivago? was Pasternak’s relationship with Stalin refracted in the novel and how did Marshal Tukhachevsky end up on its pages? How did the great Russian poet receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for this novel and why was he forced to refuse it? Why did the authorities not like the novel and how was the persecution of its author organized? How Was Pasternak’s attitude towards Soviet power and the October Revolution of 1917, his passion for the ideas of anarchism transformed in the images of the heroes of Doctor Zhivago?