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Pavel “Pasha” Antipov (Strelnikov)
Tonya Zhivago is the wife of Yuri Zhivago, mother of Sashenka and Masha, and daughter of Alexander Alexandrovich and Anna Ivanovna Gromeko. Tonya and Yuri grow close when Yuri is taken in by the Gromeko family, as they share an aversion to both high society and politics, preferring the quiet satisfaction of art and family life. Tonya marries Yuri soon after her mother’s death, and though she loves him deeply, she quickly grows used to living without him. Immediately after Sashenka is born, Yuri is sent to the frontlines of World War I and does not return until the summer of 1917. Tonya is a practical woman and manages the family excellently in his absence, perhaps better than Yuri is capable. She initiates the family’s departure for Varykino because she reasons that they will have a better chance of survival there, but also because she feels drawn there by the idyllic vision of Varykino her mother’s stories created in her mind. For a time, Tonya is happy in Varykino, until Yuri is taken away again. Tonya is also prone to fits of intense jealousy provoked by her husband’s relationship to Lara Antipova. Though Tonya reconciles with Lara in Yuri’s absence, she ultimately accepts the (perhaps untrue) idea that her husband never truly loved her, an admission she reveals in the letter she writes to Yuri to inform him of her deportation.
Antonina “Tonya” Alexandrovna Zhivago (neé Gromeko) Quotes in Doctor Zhivago
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Part 3: The Christmas Party at the Sventitskys’
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They were driving down Kamergersky. Yura turned his attention to a black hole melted in the icy coating of one window. Through this hole shone the light of a candle, penetrating outside almost with the consciousness of a gaze, as if the flame were spying on the passersby and waiting for someone.
“A candle burned on the table. A candle burned…” Yura whispered to himself the beginning of something vague, unformed, in hopes that the continuation would come of itself, without forcing. It did not come.
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Part 13: Opposite the House with Figures
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Outside the window it began to snow. Wind carried the snow obliquely, ever faster and ever denser, as if trying all the while to make up for something, and the way Yuri Andreevich stared ahead of him through the window was as if it were not snow falling but the continued reading of Tonya’s letter, and not dry starlike flakes that raced and flashed, but small spaces of white paper between small black letters, white, white, endless, endless.
Yuri Andreevich involuntarily moaned and clutched his chest. He felt faint, made several hobbling steps towards the couch, and collapsed on it unconscious.
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Part 17: The Poems of Yuri Zhivago
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It snowed, it snowed over all the world
From end to end.
A candle burned on the table,
A candle burned.
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Antonina “Tonya” Alexandrovna Zhivago (neé Gromeko) Quotes in Doctor Zhivago
The Doctor Zhivago quotes below are all either spoken by Antonina “Tonya” Alexandrovna Zhivago (neé Gromeko) or refer to Antonina “Tonya” Alexandrovna Zhivago (neé Gromeko). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 3: The Christmas Party at the Sventitskys’
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They were driving down Kamergersky. Yura turned his attention to a black hole melted in the icy coating of one window. Through this hole shone the light of a candle, penetrating outside almost with the consciousness of a gaze, as if the flame were spying on the passersby and waiting for someone.
“A candle burned on the table. A candle burned…” Yura whispered to himself the beginning of something vague, unformed, in hopes that the continuation would come of itself, without forcing. It did not come.
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Part 13: Opposite the House with Figures
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Outside the window it began to snow. Wind carried the snow obliquely, ever faster and ever denser, as if trying all the while to make up for something, and the way Yuri Andreevich stared ahead of him through the window was as if it were not snow falling but the continued reading of Tonya’s letter, and not dry starlike flakes that raced and flashed, but small spaces of white paper between small black letters, white, white, endless, endless.
Yuri Andreevich involuntarily moaned and clutched his chest. He felt faint, made several hobbling steps towards the couch, and collapsed on it unconscious.
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Part 17: The Poems of Yuri Zhivago
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It snowed, it snowed over all the world
From end to end.
A candle burned on the table,
A candle burned.
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