Собачье сердцеMikhail Bulgakov

Characters in Собачье сердце

6 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazhensky
A celebrated Moscow surgeon who takes in a stray dog and performs the transplant that sets the story in motion.

Polygraph Polygraphovich Sharikov
The stray dog Sharik, known as Sharik before the operation, whose coarse and hostile manner makes the professor's household unbearable.

Dr. Ivan Arnoldovich Bormenthal
The professor's student and assistant, who helps with the operation and grows increasingly resentful of Sharikov.
Schwonder
The head of the house committee, a committed young communist who presses to take over rooms of the professor's apartment and befriends Sharikov.
Zinaida Prokofievna Bunina
Known as Zina, the young maid of the professor's household, who is overwhelmed by Sharikov's behaviour.
Darya Petrovna Ivanova
The professor's cook, who feeds and befriends the stray dog and later suffers from Sharikov's conduct.