Ivan Tolstoy

Отмытый роман Пастернака - Otmyty roman Pasternaka
DOKTOR SHIVAGO - Pasternak's laundered novel
Non Fiction. Vremya Publishers, Moscow 2008, 400 pages + appendix.

Especially for foreign language editions, available May 2009: - bonus material from the Stockholm archives of the Nobel Prize Committee, - version for translations shortened by the author (approx. 25% of the Russian original)

In his work Ivan Tolstoy, a relative of Russian?s classic novelist Leo Tolstoy, shares his results of a 20 year lasting research project on the shady background of Pasternak?s super seller DOKTOR SHIVAGO and how it ended up getting the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958. A unique story that includes all the ingredients of a true international thriller: secret services, money and love, men and women torn between ideals and manipulation.