NMLP P-003234 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

Doktor Zhivago (Doctor Zhivago)

Boris Pasternak · Feltrinelli (Milan) · 1957

True world-first is the Italian translation 'Il dottor Zivago', Feltrinelli, Milan, November 1957 — the first appearance anywhere, as the novel could not be published in the USSR. The first Russian-language printing is the 1958 Mouton (The Hague) edition, distinguished by a two-page preface dated 1 August 1958, a higher page count than the Milan edition, and varying paper stocks tied to its clandestine production

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-003234 for "Doktor Zhivago (Doctor Zhivago)" by Boris Pasternak (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-003234, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).