# Doctor Pervukhin — My Disillusionment in Russia character guide

> Doctor Pervukhin in My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0026-xxiv-back-in-petrograd

## Who they are

Doctor who treated the narrator during illness.

## In the story

### [XII: Beneath the Surface](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/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.

### [XXII: Odessa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/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.

### [XXIII: Returning to Moscow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxiii-returning-to-moscow)

The woman physician in the village, sister of an Odessa Bundist friend, living in isolation and disillusionment.

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