Doctor Zhivago

Yuri, Lara, and Yusup are sent away from the front line. The trio goes to the small town of Meliuzeevo, where an old, stately home has been converted into a field hospital. With the Russian Revolution now in motion, travel is difficult. All three would prefer to return home, but their movement is restricted, as Yuri writes to Tonya to explain. He mentions to Tonya that Lara is with him, and in her response, Tonya warns him to stay away from Moscow. She recommends that he go to Yuriatin with “that wonderful nurse” (110). Yuri is surprised by Tonya's implication that he is romantically attracted to Lara. He resolves to clarify their relationship when he next sees Lara: They live in separate rooms, and he has never seen her quarters. He gradually begins to make plans to depart the hospital. He visits the commandant and meets the commissar of the region, Gint, who has been tasked with boosting the morale of the Russian military. In his discussions with the commandant, Gint talks disapprovingly of the revolution. He sees the revolutionaries as children who can be manipulated through emotional appeals (114). The commandant and Yusuf do not believe that such an approach will work.