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The action takes place in Moscow in the winter of 1924/25. Professor Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky discovered a method of rejuvenating the body by transplanting animal endocrine glands into people. In his seven-room apartment in a large house on Prechistenka, he receives patients. The building is undergoing “densification”: new residents, “tenants,” are being moved into the apartments of the previous residents. The chairman of the house committee, Shvonder, comes to Preobrazhensky with a demand to vacate two rooms in his apartment. However, the professor, having called one of his high-ranking patients by phone, receives armor for his apartment, and Shvonder leaves with nothing.

Professor Preobrazhensky and his assistant Dr. Ivan Arnoldovich Bormental are having lunch in the professor's dining room. Choral singing comes from somewhere above - it passes general meeting"tenants". The professor is outraged by what is happening in the house: the carpet was stolen from the main staircase, the front door was boarded up and people are now walking through the back door, all the galoshes disappeared from the galosh rack in the entrance at once. “Devastation,” notes Bormental and receives the answer: “If instead of operating, I start singing in chorus in my apartment, I will be in ruins!”

Professor Preobrazhensky picks up a mongrel dog on the street, sick and with tattered fur, brings him home, instructs the housekeeper Zina to feed him and care for him. After a week, a clean and well-fed Sharik becomes an affectionate, charming and beautiful dog.

The professor performs an operation - transplants Sharik with the endocrine glands of Klim Chugunkin, 25 years old, three times convicted of theft, who played the balalaika in taverns, and died from a knife blow. The experiment was a success - the dog does not die, but, on the contrary, gradually turns into a human: he gains height and weight, his hair falls out, he begins to speak. Three weeks later he is already a short man with an unattractive appearance who enthusiastically plays the balalaika, smokes and curses. After some time, he demands from Philip Philipovich that he register him, for which he needs a document, and he has already chosen his first and last name: Polygraph Poligrafovich Sharikov.

From his previous life as a dog, Sharikov still has a hatred of cats. One day, while chasing a cat that had run into the bathroom, Sharikov latches the lock in the bathroom, accidentally turns off the water tap, and floods the entire apartment with water. The professor is forced to cancel the appointment. The janitor Fyodor, called to fix the tap, embarrassedly asks Philip Philipovich to pay for the window broken by Sharikov: he tried to hug the cook from the seventh apartment, the owner began to chase him away. Sharikov responded by throwing stones at him.

Philip Philipovich, Bormental and Sharikov are having lunch; again and again Bormenthal unsuccessfully teaches Sharikov good manners. To Philip Philipovich’s question about what Sharikov is reading now, he answers: “The correspondence of Engels with Kautsky” - and adds that he does not agree with the description.

them, but in general “everything must be divided,” otherwise “one is settled in seven rooms, and the other is looking for food in trash bins.” The indignant professor announces to Sharikov that he is at the lowest level of development and nevertheless allows himself to give advice on a cosmic scale. The professor orders the harmful book to be thrown into the oven.

A week later, Sharikov presents the professor with a document, from which it follows that he, Sharikov, is a member of the housing association and is entitled to a room in the professor’s apartment. That same evening, in the professor’s office, Sharikov appropriates two chervonets and returns at night completely drunk, accompanied by two unknown men, who left only after calling the police, however, taking with them a malachite ashtray, a cane and Philip Philipovich’s beaver hat.

That same night, in his office, Professor Preobrazhensky talks with Bormenthal. Analyzing what is happening, the scientist comes to despair because he is from sweetest dog received such scum. And the whole horror is that he no longer has a dog’s heart, but a human heart, and the lousiest of all that exist in nature. He is sure that in front of them is Klim Chugunkin with all his thefts and convictions.

One day, upon arriving home, Sharikov presents Philip Philipovich with a certificate, from which it is clear that he, Sharikov, is the head of the department for cleaning the city of Moscow from stray animals (cats, etc.). A few days later, Sharikov brings home a young lady, with whom, according to him, he is going to marry and live in Preobrazhensky’s apartment. The professor tells the young lady about Sharikov’s past; she sobs, saying that he passed off the scar from the operation as a battle wound.

The next day, one of the professor’s high-ranking patients brings him a denunciation written against him by Sharikov, which mentions Engels being thrown into the oven and the professor’s “counter-revolutionary speeches.” Philip Philipovich invites Sharikov to pack his things and immediately get out of the apartment. In response to this, Sharikov shows the professor a shish with one hand, and with the other takes a revolver out of his pocket... A few minutes later, the pale Bormenthal cuts the bell wire, locks the front door and the back door and hides with the professor in the examination room.

Ten days later, an investigator appears in the apartment with a search warrant and the arrest of Professor Preobrazhensky and Doctor Bormental on charges of murdering the head of the cleaning department, Sharikov P.P. “What Sharikov? - asks the professor. “Oh, the dog I operated on!” And he introduces the visitors to a strange-looking dog: in some places bald, in others with patches of growing fur, he walks out on his hind legs, then stands on all fours, then again rises on his hind legs and sits in a chair. The investigator faints.

Two months pass. In the evenings, the dog sleeps peacefully on the carpet in the professor’s office, and life in the apartment goes on as usual.

Usually, schoolchildren read the works of M. A. Bulgakov with pleasure, because this author invariably manages to interestingly tell an extraordinary story about something that, it would seem, cannot happen. This is the beauty of his books. However, there is no time to re-read the entire story before class, so brief retelling“Heart of a Dog” becomes a necessity chapter by chapter. And to fully understand the book you read, you can take note .

The stray dog Sharik gets burns from the canteen cook. This is not the first time that an animal simply looking for food in a garbage heap has encountered the cruelty of this person. The dog complains about his difficult fate - they beat him with a boot, pour boiling water on him, and hit him in the ribs with a brick.

Sitting in the gateway, 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 doorman. And, lo and behold, no one drives the animal away from a warm home.

Chapter 2

While they go up to the apartment, Sharik remembers how he learned to read different letters. “M” is from the sign of a butcher shop, “A” and “B” are from Glavryba.

The dog and Philip Philipovich are met by the maid Zina, and, literally from the threshold, they want to take him to the examination room. Sharik doesn't like this idea and tries to escape. He is caught by Zina, F.F., and another gentleman (Dr. Bormental). The animal's wounds are treated and bandaged.

While Sharik comes to his senses, he observes an unusual visitor in this apartment - with green hair and a wrinkled pink face. His legs were also strange - one jumped, like a child’s nutcracker, and the other did not bend. He tells Philip Philipovich about his extraordinary success with the ladies and thanks him.

After the man comes a lady who stubbornly hides her age. She receives some kind of miraculous injection and talks about her great passion for one man. F.F. tells the lady that he will insert monkey ovaries into her.

The visitors change one after another, Sharik falls asleep.

Waking up, he sees that four people from the new building management have arrived - Shvonder, Vyazemskaya, Pestrukhin and Zharovkin. They are trying to convince Professor Preobrazhensky (Philip Fillipovich) that seven rooms for him alone is too much, and the house management wants him to give at least two. In response to this, the scientist calls his friend and patient, Pyotr Alexandrovich. After a short conversation with the authorities, the applicants no longer want to take extra rooms.

Finally, they try to sell the professor magazines in favor of children in Germany, but nothing works.

The company, calling the owner a hater of the proletariat, leaves.

Chapter 3

Preobrazhensky and Bormenthal are having lunch. Sharik sits right there and gets a piece of sturgeon and roast beef as lunch.

The sounds of a general meeting can be heard from another floor, and the professor is very upset about this. He recalls that until March 1917 there was a shoe shoe in the house, and not a single pair of shoes was lost from it, but now there is no shoe shoe, and everyone walks up the marble stairs in dirty shoes. He is also upset that the flowers have been removed from the sites, and the electricity now goes out regularly.

Lunch ends, Bormenthal leaves, and Preobrazhensky is going to the Bolshoi Theater to see 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 gateway already seemed like a dream. Sharik gained weight, grew taller and looked at himself in the mirror with interest. Philip Philipovich became his master and God, the dog greeted him joyfully, chewed his jacket and was invariably present at dinners. He was not even punished for chewing his galoshes and only slightly for tearing up a stuffed owl. They bought a collar for Sharik, and he quickly got used to it and was already proudly walking past stray dogs.

At some point, he decided to visit Daria Petrovna’s kingdom - the kitchen. The first couple of times he was chased away, but then he was already lying next to the basket of coals and watching how it worked.

But one day Sharik seemed to be struck with a premonition and was overcome with melancholy. I didn't feel like eating. After the walk with Zina, everything seemed to be going as usual. Exactly until the professor got a call.

Dr. Bormenthal arrived with a foul-smelling suitcase. Sharik was locked in the bathroom and left without lunch. The dog rushed about in the dark and howled. Then he was dragged into the examination room. They put a collar on him, poked him in the nose with cotton wool and his legs suddenly stopped holding Sharik.

The dog lies on the table, with its belly and head trimmed. The professor and the doctor are discussing the upcoming operation. Preobrazhensky admits that it would be a pity to lose the dog, but he is already accustomed 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 completed, the dog is alive. But the professor is sure that it won’t last long.

Chapter 5

Bormenthal's diary. He describes the details of the operation and the days after it. First the dog is in a dying state, with high temperature. A few days later, improvements appear - the pulse and pupil reaction normalize. On December 29, Bormental notes hair loss on the dog’s forehead and sides. Then - the first bark, which looks like moans. The fur continues to fall out, and the dog itself grows by about 30 cm. On December 31, at noon, Sharik clearly pronounces “abyr”, and on January 1 he laughs. In the evening he pronounces the word “abyrvalg”. January 2 – gets up. Then he scolds Preobrazhensky for his mother’s sake and says the word “beer house.” The tail falls off. Sharik’s vocabulary is replenished with the words “cab driver”, “no seats”, “evening newspaper”, “ best gift children" and swearing.

The fur remained only on the head, chest and chin. The genitals are like those of a developing man.

On January 8, the professor realizes that his theory was wrong: replacing 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, deliberately swear and carry on a conversation.

The professor is sitting over the medical history of the man from whom Sharik received a pituitary gland transplant. Klim Chugunkin, 25 years old – drunkard, thief. The former dog is finally developing into a human being – small, poorly built, smoking and independent in everything.

Chapter 6

At the door to the reception area hangs a sheet of paper with notes from all the residents of the apartment. There are bans on seeds and a “moratorium” on gambling musical instruments, and the question of when the glazier will come, and the 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 being too large quantities rooms.

Sharik arrives wearing a tie, a torn jacket and patent leather boots. Preobrazhensky reprimands him for appearance and because Sharik sleeps in the kitchen, disturbing women.

During the dialogue, it becomes clear what the interlocutor is like - he throws cigarette butts, is careless with the urinal, is rude to women.

Sharik also makes a claim that he did not ask to be turned into a human, and can sue the professor. He also wants to get a passport and other documents. He plans to be named as Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov.

Together with Shvonder, Philip Philipovich issues a passport for the new person.

Suddenly a cat appears in the apartment, Sharikov drives it into the bathroom and locks himself there, accidentally twisting a pipe along the way. To get him out of there, an entire rescue operation has to be launched - the doorman Fyodor climbs through the dormer window into the bathroom. Sharikov was saved, the apartment was slightly flooded.

Fyodor says that the residents of Sharikov’s house no longer like him very much - sometimes he threw stones at one, sometimes he hugged someone else’s cook. And Philip Philipovich has to pay for the damage caused.

Chapter 7

Dinner. Sharikov sits with a napkin behind his collar. But this does not affect his behavior. He drinks 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 just counter-revolution.”

Sharikov begins promoting the idea of “dividing everything.” Otherwise, someone lives in seven rooms, and someone rummages through garbage dumps. In response, he is offered to chip in to help eliminate the consequences of the flood. The professor did not accept 39 people, which means that the tenant of the apartment should pay for it. He is indignant. They remember that he killed someone else's cat, grabbed a woman by the breast, and then bit her. They are trying to explain to him the need for education and socialization. But the only book that Sharikov is ready to read is the correspondence between Engels and Kautsky.

After lunch, Bormenthal 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 becoming stronger. And he invites 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 becoming increasingly tense.

The tenant behaves more and more cheekily - he steals money, comes drunk and with strange comrades (who steal the professor’s hat, cane and ashtray), accuses Zina of theft. After this story, the professor and the doctor finally understand - to make Sharikov standing man will not work. And there is no point in this whole operation and discovery. Because simple women and evolution can create geniuses, albeit from tons of all kinds of scum. It is the pituitary gland that creates personality, and that is why they got Klim Chugunkin - a thief and a drunkard.

Bormenthal offers to poison the resulting nonentity, but Philip Philipovich refuses.

Daria 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 took money from the trade union committee and borrowed it from Daria Petrovna. Three days later, the hero appears and reports that he has accepted the position of head of the department for clearing Moscow of stray animals.

A few days later, Sharikov brings the typist Vasnetsova, his fiancée, to the house. The professor opens her eyes to the origins of her fiancé, and she refuses to marry him. He responds by threatening to fire her. Bormenthal takes the matter under personal control and promises to find out every day whether the girl has been fired.

One of his patients comes to the professor and shows Sharikov’s complaints and accusations against Philip Philipovich. 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 Bormenthal rushes over and begins to strangle him.

All the doors in the apartment are closed, there is a note at the entrance stating that there is no reception, 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 to turn animals into people.

Later in the evening, the dog lies next to the professor's chair, watches him work and thinks about how lucky he is to get into this apartment.

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The action takes place in Moscow in the winter of 1924/25. Professor Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky discovered a method of rejuvenating the body by transplanting animal endocrine glands into people. In his seven-room apartment in big house On Prechistenka he sees patients. The building is undergoing “densification”: new residents are being moved into the apartments of the previous residents - “ tenants" The chairman of the house committee, Shvonder, comes to Preobrazhensky with a demand to vacate two rooms in his apartment. However, the professor, having called one of his high-ranking patients by phone, receives reservation for his apartment, and Shvonder leaves with nothing.

Professor Preobrazhensky and his assistant Dr. Ivan Arnoldovich Bormental having lunch in the professor's dining room. Choral singing can be heard from somewhere above - this is a general meeting of “tenants”. The professor is outraged by what is happening in the house: the carpet was stolen from the main staircase, the front door was boarded up and people are now walking through the back door, all the galoshes disappeared from the galosh rack in the entrance at once. “Devastation,” notes Bormental and receives the answer: “If instead of operating, I start singing in chorus in my apartment, I will be in ruins!”

Philip Philipovich, Bormental and Sharikov have lunch; again and again Bormenthal unsuccessfully teaches Sharikov good manners. To Philip Philipovich’s question about what Sharikov is reading now, he answers: “The correspondence of Engels with Kautsky” - and adds that he does not agree with both, but in general “everything must be divided,” otherwise “one sat in seven rooms, and another is looking for food in trash bins.” The indignant professor announces to Sharikov that he is at the lowest level of development and nevertheless allows himself to give advice on a cosmic scale. The professor orders the harmful book to be thrown into the oven.

That same night, in his office, Professor Preobrazhensky talks with Bormenthal. Analyzing what is happening, the scientist comes to despair that he received such scum from the sweetest dog. And the whole horror is that he no longer has canine, namely human heart, and the lousiest of all that exist in nature. He is sure that in front of them is Klim Chugunkin with all his thefts and convictions.

Ten days later, an investigator appears in the apartment with a search warrant and the arrest of Professor Preobrazhensky and Doctor Bormental on charges of murdering the head of the cleaning department, Sharikov P.P. “What Sharikov? - asks the professor. “Oh, the dog I operated on!” And he introduces the strangers to a strange-looking dog: in some places bald, in others with patches of growing fur, he walks out on his hind legs, then stands on all fours, then stands up on all fours again. hind legs and sits down in a chair. The investigator faints.

Two months pass. In the evenings, the dog sleeps peacefully on the carpet in the professor’s office, and life in the apartment goes on as usual.

“The Heart of a Dog” is a unique story by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, on which he worked in 1925. This is a fantastic work, where the author emphasizes the inadmissibility of interference in nature: no matter how noble the attempts to make a higher being out of an animal, the opposite, negative result will result. The story also aims to show the wrong side of the post-revolutionary time with its devastation, unbridledness and phony ideas. According to Bulgakov, revolution is nothing more than bloody terror, violence against the individual, and nothing good can come from this, rather the opposite. Its consequences are a global tragedy for humanity.

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Chapter One: Dog Ordeals

The story “The Heart of a Dog” by Mikhail Bulgakov begins in a very unusual way - with the reasoning of a poor dog whose side was scalded by the cook. The dog seems to be thinking about his difficult life, where he was beaten with a boot and “got a brick in the ribs” - and dreams of only one thing: to eat.

The animal does not dare hope for luck, when suddenly... the dog is called to him by a representative gentleman. What a stroke of luck - Sharik, as his unexpected benefactor called him, received a piece of Krakow sausage. And the dog, having satisfied his hunger, went where he called, without looking back, ready to follow the benefactor even to the ends of the world.

Chapter two: new life for Professor Preobrazhensky

Professor Philip Philipovich – that was the name of Sharik’s new owner – brought the dog into a spacious apartment. Seeing the wounded side, he decided to examine the dog, but that was not the case. The dog struggled for a long time and stubbornly, but we still managed to treat the dog with anesthesia. When Sharik woke up, he realized that he was in the same room. The side no longer bothered me. He began to watch with interest how the doctor received patients. The astute dog guessed that the professor’s activities were related to rejuvenation. However, in the evening the professor received a visit from special visitors, Bolshevik activists, who began to make claims, saying that his apartment of seven rooms was too large, and people needed to be moved into it, taking away the observation room and dining room. Shvonder was especially zealous in this. The problem was resolved when Philip Philipovich called some influential official, and he resolved the conflict.

Chapter Three: Dog's Everyday Life in Preobrazhensky's House

“You need to be able to eat,” Preobrazhensky said over dinner. For him, eating was special ritual. The dog was fed too. They were condescending to what Sharik sometimes did. They were patient. But not for nothing. The dog was needed for an incredible experiment. But they haven’t talked about this yet: they were waiting for the right moment.

During the meal, the household talked about the new Soviet order, which Philip Philipovich did not like at all. After all, before, galoshes weren’t stolen at all, but now they disappear without a trace. And after the revolution, they began to walk in dirty shoes on marble stairs, which, in the opinion of an intelligent person, is completely unacceptable.

Sharik listened to these conversations and mentally sympathized with the owners. He was quite happy with life, especially since he managed to sneak into the kitchen and receive tidbits from Daria Petrovna there. Sharik felt that he had the right to this hitherto forbidden territory when the collar was put on him. Now he is truly the owner's dog. However, happy life in a dog's body was coming to an end. But Sharik did not know what he would soon experience.

On that day, an unusual, even alarming turmoil reigned around Sharik. Everyone was running and fussing, Doctor Bormenthal brought with him a foul-smelling suitcase and rushed with it to the examination room. Sharik decided to eat, but suddenly, for no apparent reason, he was locked in the bathroom. And then they took me for surgery.

Chapter Four: Unusual Operation

The experiment of transplanting human seminal glands into a dog has begun. The instruments flashed in the hands of the surgeons, they worked very energetically, acted with unusual dexterity: they cut, sewed up, but in the depths of their souls they did not hope for a successful outcome of the operation, being almost sure that the dog would die.

Chapter Five: From Dog to Man

Contrary to the doubts of doctors, the unprecedented experiment was successful: the dog survived. Gradually, Sharik, in front of the amazed eyes of Bormental and Preobrazhensky, began to turn into a man. But the doctor and the professor did not rejoice for long, because along with the miracle that they observed, bad things happened: having turned from Sharik into Sharikov, the former dog behaved impudently, was rude to the professor, and used profanity, played bad songs on the balalaika.

The strange habits of the former dog haunted Preobrazhensky and Bormental. And they began to look for the reason for this. It soon became clear that the pituitary gland of the twenty-five-year-old former drunkard and rowdy Klim Chugunkin, who was convicted three times for theft and died in a knife fight, was transplanted to Sharik.

Chapter Six: Man is worse than a dog

After conducting an experiment, the professor and doctor made a fortune for themselves big problems. They constantly fought with a human being who attacked cats, tore down pipes, causing a flood in the bathroom, and broke glass in cabinets and cupboards. In addition, a man with a dog’s heart had the audacity to pester the cooks and the maid Zina. But that wasn't the worst thing yet. Recently, the dog became friends with the “tenants” who hated Professor Preobrazhensky, who taught him to defend his rights. In the end, he asked the professor to make human documents. He took the hereditary surname - Sharikov, but came up with the name, according to the ideas of the revolution - Poligraf Poligrafovich. In Preobrazhenskoe and Bormental the former dog saw oppressors.

Chapter Seven: Sharikov’s behavior upsets the professor and doctor

Bormenthal and Preobrazhensky are trying to teach Sharikov good manners, but he is difficult to educate. But he really loves vodka, and for entertainment he loves going to the circus. Having become friends with Shvonder, he very quickly adopted his style of behavior. When Philip Philipovich and his colleague found out that Polygraph could read, they were very surprised. But real amazement and shock was caused by the fact that Sharikov was reading nothing more than the correspondence between Engels and Kautsky, given to him by Shvonder. The enraged Preobrazhensky orders Zina to find this book and burn it in the stove. Sharikov’s mind is primitive, however, Polygraph does not hesitate to give advice, for example, about the seven rooms of Preobrazhensky: just take everything and divide it - he offers his own option.

Day after day, Sharikov behaves more and more defiantly: in a fit of animal rage, he kills a cat belonging to a neighbor; accosts women on the stairs; he bit one of them when she hit him in the face in response to the fact that he brazenly pinched her, and does many other indecent things that cause inconvenience to the residents of the apartment. Professor Preobrazhensky is thinking about a new operation - this time to transform a person into a dog. But final decision has not yet accepted, although he admits with great regret: greatest discovery, made as a result of a unique operation, can result in harm to others.

Chapter Eight: Sharikov is becoming more and more rowdy

The former dog, and now a man, demands that documents be made for him, and, having received them, he tries to abuse his position: he claims the right to living space in Preobrazhensky’s apartment, to which the angry Philip Philipovich says that he will stop giving him food.

Soon Sharikov does even worse: he steals twenty rubles from the professor’s office and returns in the evening completely drunk, and not alone, but with friends who would also like to spend the night in good conditions. They were threatened that the police would be called, and the drunkards retreated, but valuable things disappeared with them: the professor’s cane, a malachite ashtray and a beaver hat. Polygraph shifts the blame for the chervonets onto Zina.

While the scientists are discussing the situation and deciding what to do now, Daria Petrovna appears at the door, holding the half-naked Sharikov by the collar and reporting that he dared to pester them. An angry Bormenthal promises to take action.

Chapter Nine: Operation Again

The polygraph reports that he has accepted a position in the department of cleaning the city of Moscow from stray animals and presents the corresponding paper in this regard.

After some time, a modest-looking girl, a typist, appears in the apartment, and Sharikov reports that this is his fiancee who will live with him. Philip Philipovich calls the young lady into his office and explains Sharikov’s true origins. A typist named Vasnetsova is crying and says that she has very little food. Preobrazhensky borrows her three chervonets.

After the “result of an unsuccessful experiment” begins to write slander against the professor, Preobrazhensky decisively tries to kick him out of the apartment. But that was not the case: Polygraph picks up a revolver and threatens them. Bormenthal quickly finds his bearings and throws Sharikov onto the couch. Scientists, in order to protect themselves and others, are again deciding to perform surgery.

Chapter Ten: Epilogue

Policemen who are investigating the disappearance of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov cross the threshold of Preobrazhensky’s apartment. In response to the charge of murder, Philip Philipovich asks that Sharik be brought before the investigator. A very strange-looking dog runs out of the door, bald in spots, and fur is growing on it in spots. The dog still talks, but less and less. Surprised law enforcement officers leave Philip Philipovich's home.

Sharik is glad that now he will live with Preobrazhensky all the time. He is no longer a rebel man, but an ordinary dog, and, dozing on the carpet next to the leather sofa, he reflects on his dog’s life. Which, it seems to him, is very good.

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Chapter 1

The action takes place in Moscow in the winter of 1924/25. In a snow-covered gateway, a homeless dog Sharik, who was offended by the canteen cook, is suffering from pain and hunger. He scalded the poor fellow's side, and now the dog was afraid to ask anyone for food, although he knew that people come across different people. He was lying at 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 stood up and crawled out onto the sidewalk. From this smell he seemed to perk up and become 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 demonstrated his devotion in every possible way. For this, the gentleman gave him a second piece of sausage. Soon they reached a decent house and entered it. To Sharik's surprise, the doorman named Fedor let him in too. Turning to Sharik’s benefactor, Philip Philipovich, he said that new residents had moved into one of the apartments, representatives of the house committee, who would make up new plan upon check-in.

Chapter 2

Sharik was an unusually smart dog. He knew how to read and thought that every dog could do it. He read mainly by colors. For example, he knew for sure that under a blue-green sign with the inscription MSPO they were selling meat. But after, guided by colors, he ended up in an electrical appliance store, Sharik decided to learn the letters. I quickly remembered the “a” and “b” in the word “fish”, or rather “Glavryba” on Mokhovaya. This is how he learned to navigate the city streets.

The benefactor led him to his apartment, where the door was opened for them by a young and very pretty girl in a white apron. 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 grabbed some man in a robe, but it was all in vain. Something sickening was brought to his nose, causing him to immediately fall onto 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 Phillipovich said something about animals and that nothing can be achieved by terror, no matter what stage of development they are at. Then he sent Zina to get 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 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 away two rooms 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 respected the professor for his ability to put down impudent people.

Chapter 3

Immediately after the guests left, a luxurious dinner awaited Sharik. Having eaten his fill of a large piece of sturgeon and roast beef, he could no longer look at the 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 still haunted him that it was all a dream. He was afraid of waking up one day and finding himself again in the cold and without food. But nothing terrible happened. Every day he became prettier and healthier; in the mirror he saw a well-fed dog happy with life. He ate as much as he wanted, did what he wanted, and they never scolded him for anything, they even bought him a beautiful collar. neighbors dogs to envy.

But one terrible day, Sharik immediately sensed something was wrong. After the doctor’s call, everyone began to fuss, Bormental arrived with a briefcase filled with something, Philip Philipovich was worried, Sharik was forbidden to eat and drink, and was locked in the bathroom. In a word, terrible turmoil. Soon Zina dragged him into the examination room, where, from the false eyes of Bormental, whom he had previously grabbed, he realized that something terrible was about to happen. They brought a rag to Sharik’s nose again nasty smell, after which he lost consciousness.

Chapter 4

The ball lay spread out on a narrow operating table. A clump of hair was cut off from his head and stomach. First, Professor Preobrazhensky removed his testes and inserted some other, drooping ones. Then he opened Sharik's skull and performed a brain appendage transplant. When Bormenthal felt that the dog’s pulse was rapidly falling, becoming thread-like, he gave some kind of injection to the heart area. After the operation, neither the doctor nor the professor any longer 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 operation to transplant the pituitary gland was carried out in order to determine the effect of such a procedure on the rejuvenation of the human body. Yes, the dog was recovering, but he was behaving rather strangely. The hair fell out of his body in clumps, his pulse and temperature changed, and he began to resemble a person. Soon Bormenthal noticed that instead of the usual barking, Sharik was trying to pronounce some word from the letters “a-b-y-r”. They concluded that it was a “fish”.

On January 1, the professor wrote in his diary that the dog could already laugh and bark happily, and sometimes said “abyr-valg,” which apparently meant “Glavryba.” Gradually he stood on two legs and walked like a man. So far he was able 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 pronounced the word “beerhouse.” From that moment on, he began to often resort to obscene speech. Meanwhile, rumors about a strange creature were circulating around the city. One newspaper published a myth about a miracle. The professor realized his mistake. Now he knew that a pituitary gland transplant does not lead to rejuvenation, but to humanization. Bormenthal recommended taking up the education of Sharik and the development of his personality. But Preobrazhensky already knew that the dog behaved like a person whose pituitary gland was transplanted to him. It was the organ of the late Klim Chugunkin, a conditionally convicted repeat thief, alcoholic, rowdy and hooligan.

Chapter 6

As a result, Sharik turned into an ordinary man of short stature, began to wear patent leather boots, a poison-blue tie, made an acquaintance with comrade Shvonder and shocked Preobrazhensky and Bormental day by day. The behavior of the new 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 got worse. The creature demanded a passport in the name of Polygraph Poligrafovich Sharikov. Shvonder demanded that a new tenant be registered 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 it, since formally the law was on their side.

The dog’s habits made themselves felt when a cat sneaked into the apartment unnoticed. Sharikov rushed after him into the bathroom like crazy. The safety latched. So he found himself trapped. The cat managed to escape out the window, and the professor canceled all the patients in order to save him together with Bormenthal 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 began to clean up the water, but Sharikov used obscene words, for which he was kicked out by the professor. Neighbors complained that he broke their windows and ran after the cooks.

Chapter 7

During lunch, the professor tried to teach Sharikov proper manners, but all in vain. He, like Klim Chugunkin, had a craving for alcohol and bad manners. He did not like to read books or go to the theater, but only to the circus. After another skirmish, Bormenthal went with him to the circus so that temporary peace could reign in the house. At this time, the professor was thinking about some kind of plan. He went into the office and looked for a long time glass jar with the pituitary gland of a dog.

Chapter 8

Soon they brought Sharikov's documents. Since then, he began to behave even more cheekily, demanding a room in the apartment. When the professor threatened that he would no longer feed him, he calmed down for a while. One evening, with two unknown men, Sharikov robbed the professor, stealing from him a couple of ducats, a commemorative cane, a malachite ashtray and a hat. Until recently, he did not admit to what he had done. By evening he felt bad and everyone was treating him like he was a little boy. The professor and Bormenthal were deciding what to do with him next. Bormenthal 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 necessary. Poligraf Poligrafovich himself showed up and announced that he had been hired for the position of head of the department for cleaning the city from stray animals. Bormenthal forced him to apologize to Zina and Daria Petrovna, and also to not make noise in the apartment and show respect to the professor.

A couple of days later a lady in cream stockings came. It turned out that this is Sharikov’s fiancee, he intends to marry her, and demands his share in the apartment. The professor told her about Sharikov’s origins, which greatly upset her. After all, he was lying to her all this time. The insolent man's wedding was upset.

Chapter 9

One of his patients came to the doctor in a police uniform. He brought a denunciation drawn up by Sharikov, Shvonder and Pestrukhin. The matter was not set in motion, but the professor realized that he could not delay any longer. When Sharikov returned, the professor told him to pack his things and get out, to which Sharikov responded in his usual boorish manner and even took out a revolver. By this he further convinced Preobrazhensky that it was time to act. With Bormenthal's help, the head of the cleaning department was soon lying on the couch. The professor canceled all his appointments, turned off the bell and asked not to disturb him. The doctor and the professor performed the operation.

Epilogue

A few days later, the police showed up at the professor’s apartment, followed by representatives of the house committee, led by Shvonder. Everyone unanimously accused Philip Philipovich of killing Sharikov, to which the professor and Bormental showed them their dog. Although the dog looked strange, walked on two legs, was bald in places, and covered in patches of fur in places, 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 a beast. After all this nightmare, Sharik again sat happily at the feet of his owner, did not remember anything and only sometimes suffered from a headache.

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