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After escaping, Yuri finds Lara again, but their reunion is short-lived. Tormented by guilt, loyalty to Tonya (now exiled abroad), and the crushing weight of history, Yuri allows Komarovsky to spirit Lara away to the Far East. Yuri returns to Moscow, broken and silent, dying of a heart attack on a crowded tram—his life extinguished unnoticed. The novel ends with an epilogue set during World War II, where Lara and Yuri’s daughter, Tanya, is discovered, and Yuri’s posthumous poems are read—testifying that art outlasts every regime. Dr Zhivago