![]() Bormental, who implant it with the pituitary gland and testicles of a recently deceased criminal. ![]() However, just as the dog, nicknamed Sharik (a common Russian dog name), begins to acclimatize, it is taken to an unexpected operation by Preobrashenzky and his assistant Dr. The dog is adopted by Professor Filipp Preobrazhensky, a brilliant surgeon who specializes in rejuvenation operations, for an impending experiment, and gradually heals in his absurdly spacious (by Soviet standards) seven-room apartment that also serves as his clinic. The narration begins from the perspective of a sickly stray dog freezing to death on the streets of Moscow. ![]() ![]() As it was typical of blatantly anti-Soviet works, it was not published in the Soviet Union until Perestroika in 1987. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!"Ī 1925 novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, about a dog turned by Russian scientists into a human and back. ![]() "The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. ![]()
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