My Disillusionment in Russia · Character
Doctor Pervukhin
Doctor who treated the narrator during illness.
minor
First appearance: xxiv back in petrograd
Doctor Pervukhin shows up with force in XII: Beneath the Surface. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Doctor Pervukhin, the political Commissar of the Board of Health, wastes the time of non-Communist doctors and nurses, embodying the system's discrimination.
Doctor Pervukhin first appears in 0026 xxiv back in petrograd.
In XII: Beneath the Surface: Doctor Pervukhin, the political Commissar of the Board of Health, wastes the time of non-Communist doctors and nurses, embodying the system's discrimination.
Later, in XXII: Odessa: Doctor N, owner of a sanatorium overlooking the Black Sea, hosts the narrator and discusses the corruption of the Cheka and the failure of Bolshevik policies.
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See Doctor Pervukhin in xxiv back in petrograd