Yusupka Gimazetdin (Galliulin) Character Analysis in Doctor Zhivago

Yusupka Gimazetdin, later known as Galliulin, is the son of Tiverzin’s porter. Initially a railroad apprentice, he later becomes a soldier in the Russian and White armies. Yusupka is viciously abused by his master, Khudoleev, and depends on Tiverzin for protection. As an adult he develops a strict sense of honor. When his new position as an officer during World War I allows him to exact revenge on the elderly Khudoleev, he requests Khudoleev’s transfer to the frontlines instead. Galliulin spends the summer of 1917 with Yuri Zhivago and Lara in Meliuzeevo, but he goes on to side with the Provisional Government and lead the White Army in Siberia, where he becomes Strelnikov’s main rival. He remains an honorable man, however, protecting Lara from his own soldiers during the White occupation of Yuriatin.

Yusupka Gimazetdin (Galliulin) Character Timeline in Doctor Zhivago

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...him over to the workshop, where the engine master Khudoleev is viciously abusing his apprentice Yusupka Gimazetdin . Yusupka’s father works in Tiverzin’s building and the engineer intervenes on his behalf, but... (full context)

...Soldiers claim that in one of these attacks, Lieutenant Antipov was taken prisoner, but Lieutenant Galliulin disputes this rumor, claiming that he saw German artillery kill Antipov. (full context)

Galliulin is in fact Yusupka Gimazetdin (the former engine master’s apprentice at the railroad depot); initially... (full context)

...a horribly disfigured older soldier die of his wounds. These people are none other than Galliulin, Lara, and the elder Gimazetdin, respectively, though none of them recognize one another, nor do... (full context)

...in a hospital in a provincial town much farther from the front. With him are Galliulin, also wounded, and Lara, who is working there as a nurse. Galliulin cannot bring himself... (full context)

The town that Yuri , Lara, and Galliulin find themselves in is called Meliuzeevo. Meliuzeevo is buzzing with activity, both from the war... (full context)

...fright. Mademoiselle, convinced someone is angrily knocking on the hospital door, goes looking for help. Galliulin is already gone, having escaped after chaos broke out at the railway junction, resulting in... (full context)

Gintz’s death is widely blamed on a telegraphist who failed to communicate Galliulin’s order that Gintz refrain from approaching the deserters alone. Meanwhile, the arriving Cossacks surround the... (full context)

...as a guest house for the district soviet. Yuri is introduced to none other than Galliulin’s mother—he is in the Tiverzins’ old building, and Olya Demina is the chairwoman of the... (full context)

...and rumors spread that the White Army, commanded in this region by none other than Galliulin, is about to conquer Yuriatin. The sights and sounds continue to impress him, from the... (full context)

...experienced before Strelnikov captured the city, a period of indiscriminate killing that even the noble-minded Galliulin was unable to restrain. Just then, Katenka enters, interrupting Yuri and Lara’s argument. The child’s... (full context)

...that Strelnikov is indeed her husband, Pasha Antipov. Yuri is skeptical, but Lara is convinced—even Galliulin knows this, she argues, but he was too noble to try to use her and... (full context)

...Whites during their second occupation of Yuriatin, once again tempered only by Lara’s petitions to Galliulin. Yuri deduces that the seamstress is Glafira Tuntseva, but he keeps quiet to avoid revealing... (full context)