Very short content (in a nutshell)
The main character, Professor Preobrazhensky, picks up a hungry dog on the street, which he names Sharik. After some time, together with his assistant Bormental, he performs an operation with a dog - a pituitary gland transplant from a recently deceased alcoholic Klim Chugunkin. At the same time, proletarians and a new house committee headed by Shvonder move into the professor's house, even trying to take 2 rooms from Philip Filippych, but he enlists the support of his patient, a big boss. After the operation, Sharik quickly turns into a man, albeit a very bad one, similar to Chugunkin. Shvonder begins to help Sharik, and knocks out documents for him in the name of Sharikov Polygraph Poligrafych, and also arranges a job as the head of a cat catching organization. Sharikov begins to become impudent, then steals, then drinks, then tries to rape the servant Zina. Preobrazhensky and Bormental decide to reverse the operation. When, a few days later, Shvonder and the police came looking for Sharikov, they were shown a half-dog, half-man. And after a while, Sharikov finally turned back into a dog.
Summary (detailed by chapter)
Chapter 1
The action takes place in Moscow in the winter of 1924/25. In a snowy gateway, a homeless dog Sharik suffers from pain and hunger, who was offended by the canteen cook. He scalded the poor fellow's side, and now the dog was afraid to ask anyone for food, although he knew that people came across different. He lay against the cold wall and dutifully waited in the wings. Suddenly, from around the corner, there was a whiff of Krakow sausage. With the last of his strength, he got up and crawled out onto the sidewalk. The smell seemed to lift his spirits and make him bolder. Sharik approached the mysterious gentleman, who treated him to a piece of sausage. The dog was ready to thank his savior endlessly. He followed him and showed his devotion in every possible way. For this, the master gave him a second piece of sausage. Soon they came to a respectable house and entered there. To Sharik's surprise, the porter named Fyodor let him through too. Turning to Sharik's benefactor, Filipp Filippovich, he said that new tenants, representatives of the house committee, who would draw up a new settlement plan, had moved into one of the apartments.
Chapter 2
Sharik was an extraordinarily intelligent dog. He knew how to read and thought that every dog could do it. He read mainly by color. So, for example, he knew for sure that under the green and blue sign with the inscription MSPO they were selling meat. But after, guided by the colors, he got into an electrical appliance store, Sharik decided to learn the letters. I quickly remembered "a" and "b" in the word "fish", or rather "Glavryba" on Mokhovaya. So he learned to navigate the streets of the city.
The benefactor brought him to his apartment, where a young and very pretty girl in a white apron opened the door for them. Sharik was struck by the decoration of the apartment, especially the electric lamp under the ceiling and the long mirror in the hallway. After examining the wound on his side, the mysterious gentleman decided to take him to the examination room. The dog immediately did not like this dazzling room. He tried to run and even poked at a man in a dressing gown, but all in vain. Something nauseating was brought to his nose, causing him to immediately fall on his side.
When he woke up, the wound did not hurt at all and was bandaged. He listened to the conversation between the professor and the man he had bitten. Philip Philipovich said something about animals and that nothing can be achieved by terror, at what stage of development they would not be. Then he sent Zina for another portion of sausage for Sharik. When the dog recovered, he followed with unsteady steps to the room of his benefactor, to whom various patients soon began to come one after another. The dog realized that this was not a simple room, but a place where people came with various diseases.
This continued until late in the evening. The last to arrive were 4 guests, different from the previous ones. These were young representatives of the house management: Shvonder, Pestrukhin, Sharovkin and Vyazemskaya. They wanted to take two rooms away from Philip Philipovich. Then the professor called some influential person and demanded assistance. After this conversation, the new chairman of the house committee, Shvonder, retreated from his claims and left with his group. Sharik liked this and he began to respect the professor for his ability to upset the insolent.
Chapter 3
Immediately after the departure of the guests, Sharik was waiting for a sumptuous dinner. Having eaten his fill of a large piece of sturgeon and roast beef, he could no longer look at food, which had never happened to him before. Philip Philipovich talked about old times and new orders. The dog, meanwhile, was dozing blissfully, but the thought did not leave him that it was all a dream. He was afraid to wake up one day and find himself again in the cold and without food. But nothing terrible happened. Every day he grew prettier and better, in the mirror he saw a happy, well-fed dog. He ate as much as he wanted, did what he wanted, but they didn’t scold him for anything, they even bought a beautiful collar for the neighbor’s dogs to envy.
But one terrible day, Sharik immediately felt something was wrong. After the doctor's call, everyone fussed, Bormental arrived with a briefcase full of something, Philipp Philippovich was worried, Sharik was forbidden to eat and drink, they locked him in the bathroom. In a word, a terrible mess. Soon Zina dragged him to the examination room, where, from the false eyes of Bormental, which he had bitten earlier, he realized that something terrible was about to happen. A rag with a nasty smell was again brought to Sharik's nose, after which he lost consciousness.
Chapter 4
The ball lay spread out on a narrow operating table. They cut off a tuft of hair on his head and on his stomach. First, Professor Preobrazhensky removed his testicles and inserted some other, sagging ones. Then he opened Sharik's skull and transplanted the brain appendage. When Bormenthal felt that the dog's pulse was dropping rapidly, becoming threadlike, he made some kind of injection into the region of the heart. After the operation, neither the doctor nor the professor hoped to see Sharik alive.
Chapter 5
Despite the complexity of the operation, the dog came to his senses. From the professor's diary, it was clear that an experimental pituitary transplant operation was carried out in order to find out the effect of such a procedure on the rejuvenation of the human body. Yes, the dog was on the mend, but behaved rather strangely. Hair fell out in tufts from his body, his pulse and temperature changed, and he began to look like a man. Soon Bormental noticed that instead of the usual barking, Sharik was trying to pronounce some word from the letters “a-b-s-r”. They concluded that it was a fish.
On January 1, the professor made an entry in his diary that the dog could already laugh and bark happily, and sometimes he said “abyr-valg”, which apparently meant “Glavryba”. Gradually he stood on two paws and walked like a man. While he managed to hold out in this position for half an hour. Also, he began to swear at his mother.
On January 5, his tail fell off, and he uttered the word "beer". From that moment on, he began to often turn to obscene speech. Meanwhile, rumors about a strange creature were circulating around the city. In one newspaper they printed a myth about a miracle. The professor realized his mistake. He now knew that a pituitary transplant would lead not to rejuvenation, but to humanization. Bormenthal recommended that Sharik be brought up and his personality developed. But Preobrazhensky already knew that the dog was behaving like a man whose pituitary gland had been transplanted into him. It was the organ of the late Klim Chugunkin, a conditionally convicted thief-recidivist, alcoholic, brawler and hooligan.
Chapter 6
As a result, Sharik turned into an ordinary man of short stature, began to wear lacquered boots, a poisonous blue tie, made acquaintance with Comrade Shvonder, and day by day shocked Preobrazhensky and Bormental. The behavior of the newly appeared creature was impudent and boorish. He could spit on the floor, scare Zina in the dark, come drunk, fall asleep on the floor in the kitchen, etc.
When the professor tried to talk to him, the situation only worsened. The creature demanded a passport in the name of Polygraph Poligrafovich Sharikov. Shvonder demanded to register a new tenant in the apartment. Preobrazhensky objected at first. After all, Sharikov could not be a full-fledged person from the point of view of science. But they still had to register, since formally the law was on their side.
The habits of the dog made themselves felt when a cat quietly made its way into the apartment. Sharikov rushed after him into the bathroom like crazy. The fuse clicked. So he was trapped. The cat managed to escape through the window, and the professor canceled all the patients in order to save him together with Bormental and Zina. It turned out that while chasing the cat, he turned off all the taps, causing water to flood the entire floor. When the door was opened, everyone together began to remove the water, but Sharikov at the same time let out obscene words, for which he was expelled by the professor. The neighbors complained that he broke their windows and rushed after the cooks.
Chapter 7
During dinner, the professor tried to teach Sharikov proper manners, but all in vain. He, like Klim Chugunkin, had a craving for alcohol, bad manners. He did not like to read books, go to the theater, but only to the circus. After another skirmish, Bormental went with him to the circus, so that temporary peace reigned in the house. At this time, the professor was thinking of a plan. He went into the office and looked at the glass jar with the dog's pituitary gland for a long time.
Chapter 8
Soon they brought Sharikov's documents. Since then, he began to behave even more cheekily, demanded a room in the apartment. When the professor threatened that he would no longer feed him, he calmed down for a while. One evening, Sharikov, with two strangers, robbed the professor, stealing from him a pair of chervonets, a commemorative cane, a malachite ashtray, and a hat. Until recently, he did not admit to what he had done. By evening, he became ill and everyone was busy with him as if he were a child. The professor and Bormental were deciding what to do next with him. Bormental was even ready to strangle the insolent man, but the professor promised to fix everything himself.
The next day, Sharikov disappeared with the documents. The house committee said that they had not seen him. Then they decided to contact the police, but this was not required. Polygraph Poligrafovich himself showed up, announced that he had been hired for the position of head of the subdepartment for cleaning the city from stray animals. Bormental forced him to apologize to Zina and Darya Petrovna, and also to keep quiet in the apartment and show respect for the professor.
A couple of days later a lady in cream stockings came. It turned out that this is Sharikov's bride, he intends to marry her, and demands his share in the apartment. The professor told her about the origin of Sharikov, which greatly upset her. After all, he had been lying to her all this time. The wedding of the insolent man was upset.
Chapter 9
One of his patients in a police uniform came to the doctor. He brought a denunciation drawn up by Sharikov, Shvonder and Pestrukhin. The case was not given a move, but the professor realized that it was no longer possible to delay. When Sharikov returned, the professor told him to pack his things and get out, to which Sharikov replied in his usual boorish manner and even took out a revolver. By this, he convinced Preobrazhensky even more that it was time to act. Not without the help of Bormental, the head of the cleaning department soon lay on the couch. The professor canceled all his appointments, turned off the bell and asked him not to be disturbed. The doctor and professor performed the operation.
Epilogue
A few days later, policemen showed up at the professor's apartment, followed by representatives of the house committee, headed by Shvonder. Everyone unanimously accused Philip Philipovich of killing Sharikov, to which the professor and Bormental showed them their dog. The dog, although it looked strange, walked on two legs, was bald in places, covered in patches of fur, but it was quite obvious that it was a dog. The professor called it an atavism and added that it is impossible to make a man out of an animal. After all this nightmare, Sharik again happily sat at the feet of his master, did not remember anything and only occasionally suffered from a headache.
Retelling plan
1. The dog talks about his difficult life.
2. Professor Preobrazhensky takes him to him.
3. Sharik's first impressions in the professor's house.
4. Visit of members of the House Committee to Preobrazhensky.
5. Conversation between Dr. Bormenthal and Philipp Philippovich about the new "orders".
6. Operation.
7. Dr. Bormenthal describes the stages of Sharik's transformation.
8. Sharikov claims his rights.
9. Sharikov becomes impudent.
10. One more operation.
11. Preobrazhensky and Bormental are charged with the murder of Sharikov.
12. The dog stays with the professor.
retelling
I
In the doorway near the public dining room lay a yard dog and complained about his hard life. The cook from the dining room poured boiling water over his side, and now he was unbearably sick. It was winter, there was a snowstorm, the dog was very cold. He thought that if he managed to eat, he might still recover. But the dog was ready to accept his fate. He scolded the cook, the janitor to himself, called them "human cleansings", said that he could not stand the proletarians. A girl passed by, a typist, she took pity on the dog. But the blizzard forced her to quickly hide in the dining room. The dog also felt sorry for the typist. He knew what kind of filth she had to eat in this cafeteria, but she did not have enough money for good food. The dog laughs at the nickname given to him by the typist - Sharik. In his opinion, Sharik should be round, well-fed, stupid, but he is shaggy, lanky and homeless.
From the store opposite came a citizen in a good expensive coat, with a pointed beard and a fluffy gray mustache. The dog immediately smelled that he had sausage. “Sir, if you saw what this sausage is made of, you would not come close to the store. Give it to me." The dog gathered his last strength and crawled to the master. He noticed the dog, took out a sausage, broke off a piece and gave it to the dog. Then he called him after him. “Follow you? Yes, to the end of the world. Kick me with your felt boots, I won't say a word." And the dog crawled after the master. His side hurt, but the dog only thought about how to express his love and devotion to the "wonderful vision in a fur coat." The master brought the dog to his house. The dog noticed the porter and was very frightened, but the master led her on. The porter greeted the gentleman, called him Philipp Philippovich, said that “living comrades moved into the third apartment. Now they will move into all apartments.” Now they have a meeting, they have chosen a new partnership, and the old one has been expelled. This news greatly upset Philip Philipovich.
Sharik began to study as soon as he was four months old. He began his training in flowers. Green and blue signs hung all over Moscow - meat trade. But he soon realized that green does not always mean meat, for example, he once went to an electrical supply store, from where he was chased away by being hit with an insulated wire. Then he learned the letter “a” in the word “Glavryba”, then the letter “b”, because it was more convenient to run up to this word from the tail, since at the beginning there was a policeman. He also knew other letters, knew how to put the word "sausage". But he could not read the signs on the door of the apartment to which the master brought him, because the word contained a strange "pot-bellied two-sided rubbish, it is not known what it means."
The door was opened by a beautiful young woman. There was a lot of light in the apartment, and the dog began to look around. But then the owner noticed that the side of the dog was burned, and ordered the woman, whose name was Zina, to take him to the examination room. The dog decided that he was in a dog clinic, got scared and began to break out. He broke the glass door and bit the leg of the young man who was helping Philip Philipovich to hold him back. Then a sickening smell hit his nose, and the dog fell asleep.
When he woke up, he realized that he had not died, but they had only bandaged his side, which now did not hurt at all. He looked at the young man, smearing the bite with green paint. Philipp Philippovich asked the dog why he had bitten Dr. Bormental and broken the glass, but the dog only whimpered plaintively. Zina asked how the professor managed to lure such nervous dog. “Weasel, sir, the only way that is possible in communication with a living being. Terror cannot do anything with an animal, no matter what stage of development it is at, ”answered Philipp Philippovich. Then he asked to feed the dog sausage.
The professor beckoned Sharik into his office, surprising him with bright light and magnificent decoration. The dog was especially interested in a stuffed owl, which he immediately disliked. Clients began to come to the professor, whom he examined, and the dog lay on the floor and watched. Sometimes he fell asleep, but the call of new visitors or a loud conversation woke him up. He finally woke up only when four modestly dressed young people entered the office. One of them said that they had business with the professor, but Philipp Philippovich did not let him finish, but asked why in such weather they go without galoshes, because now they have ruined his Persian carpets. He addressed them: "Gentlemen", to which the young man replied that they were not gentlemen. Then the professor asked him if he was a man or a woman. It turned out to be a woman. All four head the new house management, Shvonder is the main one. Their council decided that Philip Philipovich occupies too much space, so they decided to take two rooms from him. But the professor replied that his apartment was exempt from eviction and compaction: he not only lives in the apartment, but also works in it, operates on people. Shvonder threatened to file a complaint with higher authorities. The professor called someone and told him that his operation was canceled, he was going to go abroad, because it was impossible to work in such an environment: people from the house management were going to take away his rooms. And since Philip Philipovich cannot operate on people where he butchers rabbits, he will not operate on anyone at all. The man on the other end of the receiver demanded that same Shvonder on the phone. After talking with him, Shvonder blushed, the others looked at him with their mouths open. Then the woman offered the professor to buy several magazines from her in favor of the children of Germany, but Philipp Philippovich refused, which caused even more bewilderment among the members of the house management. They left, and the professor went to dinner.
There was so much food on the table that Sharik salivated. He sat near Philip Philipovich with the air of a sentry and waited for him to give him something. Philip Philipovich treated the dog to sturgeon, which he did not like very much, then to a piece of roast beef. After that, the dog could no longer look at food. He lay down on the floor and began to doze off. Singing was heard from somewhere above, and the professor asked Zina what it was. It turned out that there was another meeting upstairs. Filipp Filippovich remarked: "Kalabukhov's house has disappeared." First, in the evenings, the house management will sing, then the pipes will freeze in the toilets, then the boiler with steam heating will burst. And all because people are minding their own business. He said that he had been living in this house for a long time. Previously, there was a galoshes stand below. But now she is gone, because one day someone stole all the galoshes, coat and samovar of the porter. Why was the carpet and flowers removed from the entrance, because they did not bother anyone? For twenty years, the electricity was turned off only once or twice, and now they turn it off every month. “If I, instead of operating every evening, start singing in chorus in my apartment, I will have devastation ... Therefore, devastation is not in the closets, but in my heads.” Dr. Bormental noticed that the professor was saying counter-revolutionary things, and if anyone heard him, he would feel worse. But Philip Philipovich paid no attention to his words. He said that he was going to go to Aida in the evening. Then he reminded Dr. Bormenthal that if a suitable corpse appeared, he should be immediately informed.
Sharik began to live with the professor. He decided that he pulled out the most important dog ticket. He called Philipp Philippovich a magician, and himself - "prince-incognito". The dog was waiting for the owner to go home and met him in the hallway with a cheerful bark. Once he tore apart a stuffed owl and smashed a portrait of Mechnikov. He was dragged to poke his muzzle at an owl, and he thought: "Beat, just don't kick me out of the apartment." We even bought a collar for the dog. At first he wanted to take it off, but when Zina took him for a walk, he noticed how enviously street dogs were looking at him, and put up with the collar. After he had a collar, the dog dared to enter the kitchen, where the cook Darya Petrovna was in charge. At first she drove Sharik away, but soon he began to lie quietly on the floor and watch her cook. Sometimes Darya Petrovna fed him. During the week spent with the professor, the dog ate as much as he ate in the last year and a half of street life.
One morning, the dog began to be haunted by strange forebodings, he even ate breakfast without appetite. After Zina took him for a walk, the anxiety subsided a bit. But then an alarm bell rang. Philipp Philippovich got excited and ordered Bormental, who called, to bring something here immediately. A commotion arose in the apartment, which Sharik did not like very much. Bormental arrived and brought a foul-smelling suitcase, which he immediately took to the examination room. Philipp Philippovich rushed to him without even finishing his coffee. Zina was told to lock the dog in the bathroom. Sharik thought that in revenge he would tear apart the professor's new galoshes and a stuffed owl. But then he was taken out of the bathroom and taken to the operating room. There he noticed Bormenthal, whose eyes stubbornly avoided the dog. Zina, dressed in a white coat, had exactly the same eyes. Bormenthal went up to him and jabbed a piece of cotton wool in his nose. The dog's head was spinning. Through his sleep he heard Philip Philipovich ordering him to be put on the table. Then he stopped feeling anything.
The ball lay on the operating table. His belly was shaved, now Bormental was shaving his skull. Zina asked permission to leave and disappeared behind the door. Philipp Philippovich took a knife and cut open Sharik's stomach. He pulled out his seminal glands with scissors, while Bormenthal gave him other glands, which the professor immediately sewed on to the dog. After that, Bormental began to quickly sew up the wound. Then they took up the head. First, the professor cut the skin on the skull, then with the help of a brace he drilled small holes in the dog's skull and cut it with a saw. Sharik's brain was exposed. "Sweat from Bormental crept in streams, but Philip Philipovich became positively terrible." Sharik's pulse began to drop. Bormenthal injected some medicine into his heart. And so Philipp Philippovich reached the most important moment of the operation. Bormenthal gave him an appendage, which the professor snatched from a jar. Finally the operation was completed. Bormenthal sewed the skin of the skull back in place. Philip Philipovich called Zina and told her to prepare fresh linen and a bath. He was sure that the dog would not survive. "Oh, Dr. Bormenthal, sorry for the dog, he was affectionate, although cunning."
From the diary of Dr. Bormenthal
Dr. Bormenthal describes the history of the disease of the dog Sharik. He writes that the world's first operation was performed on him: Sharik's seminal appendages and pituitary gland were removed, and instead of them, the seminal appendages and pituitary gland of a deceased man were transplanted. With this operation, the professor
wants to find out the influence of the pituitary gland on the rejuvenation of the body. The dog gets better and worse, but soon he begins to get better. And then strange changes are observed in the state of health: hair loss on the forehead and on the sides of the body, barking remotely resembles a groan, the bones lengthen. The dog barks distinctly: "Abyr". The professor deciphered this word, it means "fish". The dog began to smile and walk on its hind legs. Then Sharik scolded Professor Preobrazhensky for his mother. His tail fell off, and he began to utter other words: "beer house, a couple more, a cab driver, there are no seats, an evening newspaper." Soon rumors swirled around Moscow. An amazing article appeared in the morning newspaper: “The rumors about Martians in Obukhovsky Lane are not based on anything. They have been disbanded by merchants from Sukharevka and will be severely punished.” An article about a newborn child who plays the violin appeared in the Evening Newspaper, and under it was a photograph of Dr. Bormental.
“Philip Filippovich, as a true scientist, admitted his mistake - a change in the pituitary gland does not give rejuvenation, but complete humanization. That doesn’t make his amazing, amazing discovery any less.” The professor ordered the creature to buy clothes. Sharik's lexicon is constantly enriched. Soon he began to speak consciously. So, when Professor Preobrazhensky ordered him not to throw leftovers on the floor, Sharik answered him: "Leave me alone, nit." Bormental realized that, being a dog, Sharik had heard different words in the street and was now repeating them.
Something incomprehensible was going on in Moscow. Several Su-Kharev merchants were arrested for spreading rumors. They began to say that soon the earth would fly into the celestial axis and the world would end. Bormental moved to Preobrazhensky's apartment. When he told the professor about his hypotheses, about the possibility of turning this creature into a "highly psychological personality," Philipp Philippovich replied with a smirk: "Do you think so?" He began to study the medical history of a person from whom the pituitary gland was transplanted. It turned out to be Klim Grigoryevich Chugunkin, convicted three times. He was engaged in thefts, played the balalaika in taverns, was an alcoholic. In the end, the dog has completely turned into a man who dresses himself, eats human food, talks and smokes.
In the evening Philipp Philippovich read a note written by Shvonder. It said that Sharik was the illegitimate son of Professor Preobrazhensky: "Everyone knows how to occupy seven rooms until the shining sword of justice flashed over him with a red beam." In the next room, the former Sharik played the balalaika and sang "The Moon Shines". Preobrazhensky asked to bring Sharik to him.
“At the curtain, leaning against the lintel, stood with his legs crossed, a man of small stature and unsympathetic appearance ... The jacket, torn under the left arm, was strewn with straw, the striped trousers on the right knee were torn, and on the left stained with purple paint”, around the neck of a man hung a poisonous tie, and on his feet were patent leather shoes, from which peeped out white leggings. Preobrazhensky did not like the way the former Sharik was dressed, his patent leather shoes were especially irritating. He asked Sharik not to throw cigarette butts on the floor, not to talk to Zina, not to swear in the apartment, not to spit. Sharik replied that they were oppressing him too much, he didn’t ask for an operation on him, he demanded documents: you can’t live in Moscow without documents, Shvonder constantly asks him why he lives with the professor. It turned out that the house committee "defends the interests of the working people", and hence Sharik. He said that now he would be called Polygraph Poligrafovich, he found this name in the calendar. And he agrees to take a hereditary surname - Sharikov.
Shvonder demanded a receipt from the professor, confirming that Sharikov was indeed born in his apartment in a laboratory way. “You can’t imagine anything more stupid,” said Preobrazhensky, but wrote a receipt. Shvonder said that Sharikov should be registered with the police, but he said that he was not going to fight, because he was sick, because he had to undergo such a serious operation. The professor and Dr. Bormenthal looked at each other meaningfully. Shvonder and Sharikov left the professor's office. Preobrazhensky admitted that he was more exhausted this week than in the last 14 years. But then screams and roar were heard in the apartment. The professor and the doctor ran to see what was the matter. It turned out that Sharikov saw a cat in the kitchen and ran after him. He drove the animal into the bathroom, and he himself was locked there. The cat managed to escape, but during the chase, Sharikon broke the faucet in the bathroom, and now the whole apartment was full of water. Sharikov could not get out of the bathroom because he had broken the lock. I had to call the porter Fedor. He fixed the faucet, opened the bathroom door, and the whole apartment was flooded. Fyodor told Preobrazhensky that Sharikov had broken the glass in the neighboring apartment because he had thrown stones at its owner. The professor asked to be sure to report on such incidents.
During dinner, Bormental taught Sharikov how to behave at the table. Sharikov listened to him little, but constantly poured himself vodka. The professor asked what Sharikov was going to do in the evening. He wanted to go to the circus. Preobrazhensky reminded him that he constantly goes to the circus anyway, it would be better if he visited the theater at least once. But Sharikov refused. The professor asked what he was reading, and he answered: "Engels' correspondence with Kautsky." But he did not understand anything from it, except that everything must be taken and divided. “Otherwise, some have seven rooms and forty trousers, while others have to climb through garbage dumps.” “You are at the lowest stage of development,” exclaimed the professor. He wondered how such an undeveloped being allowed himself, in the presence of two educated people, to give advice on a cosmic scale and cosmic stupidity at the same time. Having found out that this correspondence was given to Sharikov by Shvonder, Preobrazhensky ordered Zina to throw it into the stove. Then he asked Bormental to take Sharikov to the circus, only if they didn't show cats there. When they left, Preobrazhensky went into his office, took out a jar with a dog's pituitary gland from the closet, looked at it for a long time, and then said: "Honest to God, I think I will make up my mind."
Six days after the incident with the cat, Sharikov received the documents. He stated that he had the right to 16 square arshins in Preobrazhensky's apartment, so he was not going to move out of here for anything. The professor said that maybe he had rights to an apartment, but no one would feed him if he did not learn to behave decently. After these words, Sharikov did not disturb anyone for the whole day. But the next day, Sharikov stole money from the table and got drunk in a tavern. He dragged with him to the apartment two drunken individuals, who managed to drive away only with the police. But after they left, the professor's hat and the cane presented to him by the students with a dedicatory inscription disappeared.
Late at night Dr. Bormental sat in the professor's office. Bormenthal thanked the professor for giving him shelter in his department when he was still a poor student. Now Preobrazhensky is more than a teacher for him. Preobrazhensky was very touched by his words, he asked for forgiveness for sometimes raising his voice to the doctor during operations. Bormental began to persuade the professor to perform the reverse operation, but Preobrazhensky did not even want to listen, because a scandal might arise, and they might be sued. And since they do not have a suitable labor heredity, they will definitely be imprisoned. If the professor can be saved by his world fame, then Bormental will be imprisoned anyway, and Preobrazhensky cannot leave him in trouble, because he is not only a student for him, but, as it turned out, a friend. Philipp Philippovich spoke about the fact that he had made the biggest mistake in his life. He could not understand why he had studied the appendages of the brain for so many years. Is it really in order “to one day turn the sweetest dog into such scum that your hair stands on end”? Bormental asked what would happen if, instead of Klim's brain, they took the brain of, for example, Spinoza. But Preobrazhensky did not see the point in cultivating geniuses in the laboratory, if nature itself can take care of this: “After all, Madame Lomonosov gave birth to this famous one in Kholmogory!” The professor recalled that he made all his experiments only in order to find the key to eternal youth.
Bormental was horrified at what might grow out of Sharikov if Shvonder treated him properly. To this, Preobrazhensky replied that “Shvonder is the most important fool”, because he is now setting Sharikov against the professor, and what will happen to Shvonder himself if Sharikov is set against him? At that moment, some rustlings were heard in the corridor, and soon Darya Petrovna appeared on the threshold of the office. She was wearing only a nightgown and was dragging a stubborn Sharikov behind her: “Look, Mr. Professor, at our visitor Telegraph Telegrafovich. I was married, and Zina is an innocent girl. It's good that I woke up." After these words Darya Petrovna blushed and ran away. Bormental went up to Sharikov and wanted to hit him, but Preobrazhensky prevented him. Then the doctor promised to punish him tomorrow morning when he sobered up.
Dr. Bormenthal failed to punish Sharikov the next day, as he disappeared from the apartment. Fyodor searched the whole house, and Bormental was even in the house committee, but they did not find Sharikov anywhere. The women rejoiced at his disappearance and hoped that he would never return at all. Two days later Sharikov arrived in a truck. He was wearing a leather jacket and leather boots. He said that Shvonder got him a job as the head of the subdepartment for cleaning the city from stray animals. The stench emanating from him, he explained as follows: “Yesterday, cats were strangled, strangled.” Bormental went up to him, took him by the throat and forced him to ask for petitions from Zina and Darya Petrovna for daring to come to them at night. Then he said that if Sharikov was going to live in the professor's apartment, then he should be quieter than water, lower than grass, otherwise he would have to deal with him. There was silence in the apartment for two days. Sharikov went to work in the morning, returned by lunchtime and dined with Preobrazhensky and Bormental. Two days later, Sharikov brought an embarrassed young girl. He announced that he was going to sign her, so Bormental must get out of the waiting room, in which he had slept until that time. Preobrazhensky called the girl to his office and talked to her there. She was crying: Sharikov completely intimidated her, told her that he had been wounded in battle, and now he was in charge of her. She can no longer eat corned beef in the dining room, she will soon be poisoned, and Sharikov promised her pineapples every day, and even took the ring from her. When the girl left the office, Sharikov threatened to fire her. Bormental grabbed him by the lapels and said that he would personally check every day whether she was fired, and if it turned out that she was fired, he would kill Sharikov.
The next day, Sharikov left for work, and his old patient came to the professor. But he did not come to the reception, but brought the professor a paper written by Sharikov. It said that Preobrazhensky and Bormenthal were having counter-revolutionary conversations, threatening to kill the chairman of the house committee, Shvonder, and even ordered the servant Zina to burn Engels' book. In addition, Bormental secretly, without a residence permit, lives in Preobrazhensky's apartment. This paper came to the patient on his duty, and he decided to show it to Philip Philipovich, as he respects him, and considers Sharikov a scoundrel. He promised to destroy the denunciation.
In the evening, Sharikov returned home, and Preobrazhensky called him into his office. There he asked him to pack his things and get out of his apartment. Sharikov began to threaten him and even pulled out a pistol. But Bormenthal managed to cope with him. Having twisted, they put Sharikov on the operating table. After that, the doctor hung a note near the entrance bell with a request not to disturb the professor, then closed the back entrance, took the key to the door and asked Zina and Darya Petrovna not to leave the apartment for some time. Then there was silence in the apartment. It was said that a bright light burned in the professor's examination room all evening. Zina said that after a while Dr. Bormenthal burned his notebook in the stove, in which he kept notes on Sharikov.
Epilogue
Ten days after that evening, two people in police uniforms came to Preobrazhensky's apartment: one in a black coat, the other - Shvonder. The man in the black coat said that they needed to search the professor's apartment and, if necessary, arrest Preobrazhensky, Bormental, Zina and Darya Petrovna. It turned out that they were accused of killing Sharikov. Preobrazhensky replied that they did not kill any Sharikov, the dog Sharik lives in his apartment, but he is completely alive, although he underwent a serious operation. The policemen demanded that the dog be produced immediately. Bormenthal brought Sharik, who either walked on his hind legs or stood on all fours at once.
The man in the coat looked at the creature and asked how it could serve in cleaning? The professor replied that it was not he who appointed him there, but Shvonder. The policeman asked how he used to talk? “Sharik can still talk, but less and less,” replied the professor. - Science does not yet know how to turn animals into people. So I tried, but only unsuccessfully, as you can see. He spoke and began to turn into a primitive state. Atavism". Sharik spoke, causing the man in the black coat to turn pale and faint.
The ball finally turned into a dog. Sometimes he had a headache, but in the warmth of the apartment, the pain quickly stopped. He was happy because he now lives in such an apartment. “True, the whole head was slashed for some reason, but it will heal before the wedding. We don't have to look at it."
Heart of a Dog - a story by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, was written in 1925.
Chapter 1
Winter Moscow in the mid-20s. In the courtyard of December, the month is frosty and snowy. In the backyard of the catering canteen, the cook poured boiling water on the homeless dog Sharik, and now he cannot escape starvation.
Howling and trying to lick his scalded side, Sharik hid in the doorway. Suddenly, a respectable, well-dressed gentleman came out of a nearby store smelling of delicious food.
Looking around, he noticed a dog in the alleyway, unwrapped the package, which turned out to be Krakow sausage, and, miraculously, threw a piece to the unfortunate dog. The whole piece was instantly swallowed.
The wonderful stranger beckoned the dog to follow him, and Sharik ran after his benefactor without hesitation. They walked along Prechistenka and turned into Obukhov Lane. There the dog got another piece of sausage.
A decent gentleman called the dog into the front entrance of a rich house and past the porter, the worst enemy of all homeless dogs, they began to climb the marble steps of the elegant staircase. In front of the apartment with a shiny sign “Professor F.F. Preobrazhensky”, the benefactor took out a key, opened the door, and they found themselves in the hallway of a clean and smelling of stable prosperity apartment.
Chapter 2
A servant, a young girl, Zina, came out into the hallway. She helped the owner, whom she called Philip Philipovich, to undress, and he ordered her to take the dog to the examination room. Once in a room full of characteristic hospital odors, Sharik tried to escape. But a second man, much younger, appeared in the room and thrust something nasty smelling under the dog's nose, from which he fell into oblivion. Before that, he still managed to grab the young man by the leg.
When he woke up, he felt that the pain in his side had disappeared, probably from the bandage applied. The dog was in a half-asleep, grateful state and, feeling guilty for his inappropriate behavior, dragged himself behind Philip Philipovich into the office. The professor received patients and Sharik, who was difficult to embarrass, was shocked by the behavior of elderly men and women who had to take off their underwear before the examination.
They asked the professor to help them restore the ability to satisfy their sexual desires, and the doctor promised to help them by all means. With the thought that this is not a good apartment, but how lucky he was to get here, Sharik fell into a deep sleep. He woke up from a loud intrusion into the apartment of visitors of clearly proletarian origin. This delegation was headed by Shvonder, and even Sharik understood that he was a Jew.
Shvonder announced to the professor that they were representatives of the house management and wished to take away his surplus living space. To the professor's explanation that he uses most of the apartment for medical work, Shvonder said that Preobrazhensky was obliged to give two rooms to the needy.
An angry professor called some high-ranking official and announced that he was canceling his operation, ending his practice and going abroad because he could not work in such conditions. Shvonder was invited to the telephone and ordered to leave Professor Preobrazhensky alone. The disgraced delegation retreated with nothing.
Chapter 3
In the evening Philipp Philippovich and an assistant named Bormental, who had been bitten by Sharik, ate excellent food at an exquisitely set table. Sharik, who found himself in the dining room, got pieces of salmon and roast beef, and for the first time in his life he ate to satiety. The dinner was followed by a conversation between the teacher and his student.
The professor complained that since a “housing association” appeared in the house, then normal life ended. Instead of working, the proletariat is busy studying philosophical literature and singing revolutionary hymns. To Bormenthal’s remark that his words could be regarded as “counter-revolution”, and the Bolsheviks now are not at all the same as in the eighteenth year, the professor replied that for him personally this word was also incomprehensible, like devastation.
Sharik listened with interest to the conversation and thought that Filipp Filippovich could earn good money at rallies, although, apparently, he already had them. The professor decided that he would go to the Bolshoi to "Aida", and the well-fed dog only dreamed that this blissful state would not end and he would not end up on the street.
Chapter 4
A few days of a well-fed life turned a stray dog into a well-groomed dog, which was taken out for a walk in a collar. Sharik was happy. Everything changed when Bormenthal called that he had what the professor needed. After his arrival, the dog was taken to the examination room, euthanized, and the doctors performed a complex operation. His pituitary and seminal glands were replaced with the human organs of the deceased. In this way, Preobrazhensky intended to speed up the process of rejuvenation.
Chapter 5
Contrary to the predictions of Professor Sharik, he quickly recovered. Along with the recovery, there was also a radical change in appearance. He ate a lot and began to grow in size. Then his hair began to fall out. When his height and weight reached the average human, he began to stand on his hind legs and tried to pronounce words. All of them were abusive or uncensored.
Since Sharik now looked more like a man than a dog, they began to seat him at the table and teach him good manners. To these attempts, he answered briefly "Get off, nit." The professor received not rejuvenation, but humanization. The dog became the continuer of the life of a drunkard, gambler and thief Klim Chugunkin. The most incredible rumors spread around Moscow.
Chapter 6
Soon a human being with an unpleasant appearance and disgusting habits settled in the prosperous apartment of Professor Preobrazhensky. The professor and Bormenthal tried to stop the vile acts of a human being with a dog's heart - not to spit on the floor and not to throw themselves at cats, to use a urinal and not to pester the servants and the cook with voluptuous offers.
But the most unpleasant thing was that the operated dog became friends with the “housing comrades” and, at the instigation of Shvonder, began to demand that he be issued human documents. He even chose a future name for himself - Polygraph Poligrafovich Sharikov and classified himself as a labor element. In addition to documents, he began to apply for housing. Preobrazhensky and Bormental were horrified, but saw no way out of the situation.
Chapter 7
During the next dinner, when Bormenthal tried to make another remark about Sharikov's manners, it turned out that he had learned to read and was now studying Engels' correspondence with Kautsky. Struck by such news, the professor ordered Zina to burn the harmful little book. The polygrapher said that this book was not his, but Shvonder's, and he did not agree with the authors. In his opinion, everything should be taken and shared.
Bormental took Sharikov to the circus, having previously made sure that cats would not participate in the program, thus giving Preobrazhensky time to come to his senses.
Chapter 8
Having received human documents, Sharikov became completely insolent and began to bring drinking companions into the house, declaring that he had the right to a living space of sixteen square arshins. Preobrazhensky flew into a rage and announced that in this case he would refuse to feed him. This somewhat reasoned with Sharikov, but he soon stole money from the office and disappeared for several days.
Chapter 9
He returned in a leather jacket and on a truck. It stank terribly indecent. Sharikov, with great aplomb, confirmed by an official document, announced that he had got a job and now he is the head of the sub-department for cleaning up stray animals. And the nasty smell is because they crushed the cats, from which they will later sew "polta" for the proletarians.
Soon he brought a young typist with him and announced that he would live with her. The professor explained to the young woman who Sharikov was, and she burst into tears and left. A few days later, one of Preobrazhensky's patients warned him that Sharikov and Shvonder had denounced the doctor, accusing him of counter-revolution.
In the evening, Bormental demanded that Sharikov, who had returned, leave the professor's apartment; in response, he reached into his pocket for a pistol. Bormental threw him down on the couch, and Philipp Philippovich came to his aid...
Epilogue
Ten days passed and policemen and an investigator appeared in Preobrazhensky's apartment. They were going to investigate Shvonder's statement that the head. sub-department cleaning Sharikov killed. The professor explained to them that Sharikov was not a person, but the victim of a failed medical experiment. He was never a human and is now reverting back to his canine form.
Indeed, the criminal police officers saw a strange dog with a fresh scar on his forehead. His body was hairy only in some places. The investigator stated that he had evidence that Sharikov could speak. As if in confirmation of this, the strange dog loudly uttered sounds resembling barking, introducing the investigator into a stupor. The police left. The professor returned to his former way of life, and the dog Sharik lay on the carpet and was glad of his well-fed life in the apartment of Professor Preobrazhensky.
Title of the work: dog's heart
Year of writing: 1925
Genre: story
Main characters: Professor Preobrazhensky, doctor Bormental, Evgraf Sharikov- former dog Sharik
Plot
A medical scientist conducts a bold experiment: he transplants the endocrine glands of Klim Chugunkin, a criminal and an idler, into a dog picked up on the street, in order to determine their functions. The dog does not die, but begins to gradually turn into a person.
A few weeks later, this is already a mature person with a disgusting character and terrible habits. He harasses the professor by constantly getting into some unpleasant situations: he breaks the glass, breaks the tap, strangles the neighbor's cats, is rude, gets drunk and makes friends with inveterate villains.
But Sharikov finds support in the person of Shvonder, who hates the professor, and he helps him get a job as head of the cleaning department (they kill stray cats).
A few days later, Sharikov wrote a denunciation of the professor to the GPU. This turned out to be the last straw in the patience of the doctors, and after a desperate resistance and a fight, they again perform an organ transplant operation. And soon the unpleasant person again turns into an affectionate and obedient dog.
Conclusion (my opinion)
Each scientist is responsible for the results of his work. Sometimes, in pursuit of a scientific sensation, he does not think what catastrophic consequences a bold scientific experiment will lead to.
Usually, schoolchildren read the works of M. A. Bulgakov with pleasure, because this author invariably manages to tell an interesting story about what, it would seem, cannot be. That's the beauty of his books. However, before the lesson there is no time to reread the whole story, so brief retelling"Heart of a Dog" chapter by chapter becomes a necessity. And for a complete understanding of the book you read, you can take note .
Stray dog Sharik gets burns from the canteen cook. This is not the first time that an animal that was simply looking for food in the garbage has faced the cruelty of this man. The dog complains about his difficult fate - and they beat him with a boot, and pour boiling water over him, and beat him in the ribs with a brick.
Sitting in the doorway, the dog sees a certain gentleman. And this gentleman gives Sharik a piece of Krakow sausage. Filled with gratitude, the dog follows the man. Together they come to the house, where Philip Philipovich (that is the name of this kind passer-by) is greeted by the porter. And, lo and behold, no one drives an animal out of a warm house.
Chapter 2
As they go up to the apartment, Sharik reminisces about how he learned to read different letters. "M" - from the sign of the butcher's shop, "A" and "B" - from the "Glavryba".
The dog and Philip Filippovich are met by the maid Zina, and, literally from the doorway, they want to take him to the examination room. The ball does not like this idea, and he tries to escape. He is caught by Zina, and F.F., and another gentleman (Dr. Bormental). The animal is treated with wounds, bandaged.
While Sharik comes to his senses, he observes an unusual visitor in this apartment - with green hair, a wrinkled pink face. His legs were also strange - one jumped like a child's nutcracker, and the second did not bend. He tells Philip Philipovich about his extraordinary success with the ladies and thanks him.
After the man comes the lady, stubbornly hiding her age. She receives some kind of miraculous injection and talks about her great passion for one man. F.F. informs the lady that he will insert monkey ovaries into her.
The visitors change one by one, Sharik falls asleep.
Waking up, he sees that four people from the new house administration have come - Shvonder, Vyazemskaya, Pestrukhin and Zharovkin. They are trying to convince Professor Preobrazhensky (Philip Filippovich) that seven rooms are too many for him alone, and the house management wants him to give at least two. In response to this, the scientist calls his friend and patient, Peter Alexandrovich. After a short conversation with the authorities, the applicants no longer want to take extra rooms.
Finally, they try to sell magazines to the professor in favor of the children of Germany, but nothing comes of it.
The company, calling the owner a hater of the proletariat, is removed.
Chapter 3
Preobrazhensky and Bormental are having lunch. Sharik sits right there and gets a piece of sturgeon and roast beef as lunch.
From another floor, the sounds of a general meeting are heard, and the professor is very upset about this. He recalls that until March 1917 there was a galoshnika in the house, and not a single pair of shoes was lost from it, but now there is no galoshnika, and everyone walks in dirty shoes on the marble stairs. He is also upset that the flowers have been removed from the sites, and the electricity now disappears regularly.
Dinner ends, Bormental leaves, and Preobrazhensky is going to the Bolshoi Theater for Aida.
For a second it seems to the dog that he is in a magical dream, where he is taken care of, fed, and is about to wake up and find himself on the street again.
Chapter 4
But the doorway already seemed like a dream. Sharik got better, overgrown and looked at himself in the mirror with interest. Philip Philipovich became his master and God, the dog joyfully met him, chewed his jacket and was invariably present at dinners. He was not punished even for chewed galoshes and only a little for a torn stuffed owl. A collar was bought for Sharik, and he quickly got used to it and already proudly walked past stray dogs.
At some point, he decided to visit the kingdom of Darya Petrovna - to the kitchen. The first couple of times he was driven away, but then he lay next to the basket of coals and watched how it worked.
But one day, Sharik seemed to be stung by a premonition, longing flooded over him. I didn't want to eat. After a walk with Zina, everything seemed to go on as usual. Exactly until the moment the professor called.
Dr. Bormenthal arrived with a foul-smelling suitcase. Sharik was locked in the bathroom and left without lunch. The dog darted about in the darkness and howled. Then he was dragged to the examination room. They put a collar on him, poked cotton in his nose, and his legs suddenly stopped holding Sharik.
The dog lies on the table, with its belly and head cut off. The professor and the doctor are discussing the upcoming operation. Preobrazhensky admits that it would be a pity to lose the dog, but he was already used to Sharik.
First, the animal's seminal glands were replaced with human ones. And then they opened the skull and replaced one of the parts of the brain - the pituitary gland. The operation is over, the dog is alive. But the professor is sure that not for long.
Chapter 5
Diary of Bormenthal. He describes the details of the past operation and the days after it. First, the dog is in a dying state, with a high temperature. A few days later, improvements appear - the pulse normalizes, the reaction of the pupils. December 29 Bormental records hair loss on the forehead and sides of the dog. Then - the first bark, which is similar to groans. The hair continues to fall out, and the dog itself grows by about 30 cm. On December 31, at noon, Sharik distinctly pronounces “abyr”, and on January 1 he laughs. In the evening he pronounces the word "abyrvalg". January 2 - get up. Then - he scolds Preobrazhensky for his mother, and says the word "beer". The tail falls off. Sharik's lexicon is replenished with the words "cabman", "there are no places", "evening newspaper", "the best gift for children" and abuse.
Wool remained only on the head, chest and chin. The genitals are like those of an emerging man.
On January 8, the professor realizes that his theory was wrong: the replacement of the pituitary gland does not rejuvenate, but humanizes.
Sharik walks around the apartment on his own and swears. The professor asks him to stop, but it has no effect.
He is forced to wear clothes. The patient begins to eat at the table, consciously swear and keep up the conversation.
The professor is sitting over the case history of the man from whom Sharik was given a pituitary gland transplant. Klim Chugunkin, 25 years old - drunkard, thief. The former dog finally forms into a man - small, poorly built, smoking and independent in everything.
Chapter 6
At the door to the reception room there is a sheet with notes from all the tenants of the apartment. There are bans on seeds, and a “moratorium” on playing musical instruments, and the question of when the glazier will come, and correspondence that Sharik has gone somewhere, and Zina should bring him.
Preobrazhensky reads a newspaper article written by Shvonder. He accuses the professor of having an illegitimate son and too in large numbers rooms.
Sharik arrives, wearing a tie, a tattered jacket, and patent leather boots. Preobrazhensky scolds him for his appearance and for the fact that Sharik sleeps in the kitchen, disturbing the women.
In the course of the dialogue, it becomes clear what the interlocutor is like - he scatters cigarette butts, is sloppy with the urinal, is rude to women.
Sharik also claims that he did not ask him to turn into a person, and can sue the professor. He also wants to get a passport and other documents. Plans to be named as Polygraph Poligrafovich Sharikov.
Together with Shvonder, Philip Philipovich draws up a passport for a new person.
Suddenly a cat appears in the apartment, Sharikov drives him into the bathroom and locks himself in there, accidentally turning the pipe along the way. To get him out of there, you have to deploy a whole rescue operation - the doorman Fyodor climbs through the dormer window into the bathroom. Sharikov was saved, the apartment was slightly flooded.
Fyodor says that the tenants of Sharikov's house no longer like him very much - either he threw stones at one, then he hugged someone else's cook. And to pay for the damage done - to Philip Philipovich.
Chapter 7
Dinner. Sharikov sits with a napkin behind his collar. But this does not affect his behavior. He leans on vodka, and the professor and Dr. Bormental understand that this is the legacy of his donor, Klim. They are planning the evening. The hero, as always, wants to go to the circus. The scientist invites him to visit the theater, but he refuses, saying that "this is all one counter-revolution."
Sharikov begins to promote the idea of "sharing everything." And then someone lives in seven rooms, and someone rummages through the garbage heaps. In response, he is offered to chip in to eliminate the consequences of the flood. The professor did not accept 39 people, which means that let the tenant of the apartment pay for it. He is outraged. He is reminded that he killed someone else's cat, grabbed a woman by the chest, and then bit her. They try to explain to him the need for education and socialization. But the only book that Sharikov is ready to read is Engels' correspondence with Kautsky.
After dinner, Bormental goes to the circus with Sharikov. Left alone, Preobrazhensky takes out a jar in which a piece of the dog's brain floats.
Chapter 8
Sharikov received his documents. But Bormental and Preobrazhensky refuse to call him by his first name and patronymic. And the hero, in turn, does not want to be "Mr. Sharikov", because "the gentlemen are all in Paris." The professor understands that Shvonder's influence is getting stronger. And he offers the victim of the experiment, in this case, to move out of the apartment. In response, he shows papers from Shvonder that Preobrazhensky is obliged to provide him with living space. The situation is getting more and more tense.
The tenant behaves more and more cheekily - he steals money, comes drunk and with incomprehensible comrades (who steal the hat, cane and ashtray from the professor), accuses Zina of stealing. After this story, the professor and the doctor finally understand that it will not work to make a standing person out of Sharikov. And there is no sense in all this operation and discovery. Because ordinary women and evolution can create geniuses, albeit from tons of all sorts of scum. It is the pituitary gland that creates the personality, and therefore they received Klim Chugunkin - a thief and a drunkard.
Bormental offers to poison the resulting nonentity, but Philipp Philippovich refuses.
Darya Petrovna appears with a drunken Sharikov. He climbed into the women's bedroom.
Chapter 9
The next morning Sharikov disappears - he is neither in the house nor in the trade union committee. It turns out that he left at dawn, along with all his documents. The day before he had taken money from the trade union committee and borrowed it from Darya Petrovna. Three days later, the hero appears and reports that he has entered the position of head of the subdepartment for cleaning Moscow from stray animals.
A few days later, Sharikov brings the typist Vasnetsova, his bride, to the house. The professor opens her eyes to the origin of her fiancé, she refuses to marry him. He threatens to fire her in return. Bormenthal takes the matter under personal control and promises to find out every day whether the girl was fired.
One of his patients comes to the professor and shows Sharikov's complaints and accusations against Filipp Filippovich. When the former dog arrives from work in the evening, the scientist orders him to get out of the apartment. The tenant shows a shish and takes out a revolver. An enraged Bormental rushes and begins to choke him.
All doors in the apartment are closed, a note about the lack of reception hangs at the entrance, and the bell wires are cut.
Epilogue
The police come to Preobrazhensky and accuse him, Bormental, Zina and Daria Petrovna of killing Sharikov.
He replies that he did not kill anyone, the dog is alive and well. The police are trying to insist that there was a man, Poligraf Poligrafovich. A dog with a purple scar on his forehead, bald in places, appears in the hallway and sits down in a chair.
He hardly speaks anymore and walks mostly on four legs. Preobrazhensky reports that all this was a bad experience, and science has not yet learned how to turn animals into people.
Later in the evening, the dog lies next to the professor's chair, watching him work and thinking about how lucky he was to be in this apartment.
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