Lara Antipova

thumb|right|335 pxLara Antipova is a character in Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago as well as it's 1965 film adaptation of the same name.
She is portrayed by Julie Christie.
==Prior to the WW1==
Lara is a young woman engaged to an idealistic Bolshevik reforner named Pasha, who while organising a peaceful protest march with impoverished Russian workers is injured during a Czarist calvery charge. Lara tends to his wounds and Pasha gives her a revolver he picked up during the massacre but unbeknownst to him she is secretly having an affair with an older man Viktor Komarovsky. Lara decides to break off with Viktor but is then raped by him. In retaliation Lara picks up the revolver Pasha gave her and tracks Viktor Komarovsky down to a lavish Christmas Evew party where she shoots him (injuring his wrist). Pasha then escourts her out of the building. Lara marries Pasha and has a daughter named Katya, however when World War One approaches, Pasha signs up for the army abandning Lara and Katya.
==Falling in love with Yuri Zhivago==
Pasha is reported MIA when he and his squad attempt a daring charge attack in "No Man's Land". As a result Lara enlists as an army nurse in the hope of finding Pasha. She crosses paths with Doctor Yuri Zhivago with whon she runs a battlefield hospital on the Ukrainian front for 6 months. Lara and Yuri are smitten with one another but suppres their love for one another just as the war has ended.
==Reunited in Yuriatin==
In the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution Yuri Zhivago, and his adopted family have fled their Moscow estate and have boarded a cattle train bound for the Ural Mountains where Tonya's mansion in Varykino is located. On the way, Yuri discovers that Pasha is alive and has taken on a new identity, Strelnikov. He also learns that Lara is living in Yuriatin, which is occupied by the Imperial Whites during the Russian Civil War against the Communist Reds. Yuri and Lara rekindle their affair.
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