The Heart of a Dog

The action of the brilliant phantasmagoria by Mikhail Bulgakov, offered to you in Dmitry Bykov’s performance, takes place in the 1920s in Soviet Russia. The well-known Moscow professor Philip Filippovich Preobrazhensky decides to carry out an experiment: transplanting the seed glands and pituitary gland of the dead drun­ken bum and hooligan Klim Chugunkin into the sweet dog Sharik, found on the street. The experiment succeeds in making him more human—but, alas, it fails. Instead of a kind dog, a hideous, dull, and aggressive creature appears: Poligraph Poligraphovich Sharikov, who inherited from his “donor” only the worst traits.

The audiobook also includes a lecture—a fascinating story by Dmitry Bykov about the book he has just read.