... study of the relation ship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots and in 1977 State of Revolution, a play about the Russian revolution and its aftermath. He won two best screenplay Oscars, one for his collaboration with David Lean for Dr Zhivago (1965) ...

... from town to town. At one point they had the misfortune to find themselves stuck in Moscow in 1917 in the middle of the Russian Revolution. Returning to Warsaw, Serge attended university while his two elder brothers, Bob and George, sought their fortunes ...

... Russian, French, German, Polish and Hebrew, before he was six years old, coming to this country in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and being educated at St Paul's School and St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classical Greek. Arabic and Sanskrit ...

... of a distinguished family one of her brothers being Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, the author of a famous book about the Russian Revolution she trained at the Royal Academy of Drama tic Art, making her debut at the Whitehall in 1927 and being noted chiefly ...