Philipp Philippovich Preobrazhensky.

Appearance, clothing, character.

The appearance of Professor Preobrazhensky from Mikhail Bulgakov's novella "Heart of a Dog": a solid, sixty-year-old gentleman with gray hair, gold-rimmed glasses, a pointed French beard, and bushy mustache. Gray hair showed from under his white cap, and his high forehead was balding. When the professor laughed, his mouth resembled a palisade of gold and porcelain crowns. If he was indignant, his face either flushed or paled. In winter, the professor wore a warm fur coat of black-brown fox, a beaver hat, galoshes, and always carried a cane. He wore a black suit of English cloth, and a gold watch chain gleamed on his stomach. During operations, he wore a cap and a medical gown, and over it – a rubber apron; at home, he preferred a light blue robe and red slippers. Filipp Filippovich is a perceptive, decisive, intelligent, and just man. The author notes the professor's analytical abilities, his strictness, demandingness, honesty, and upbringing. Negative traits of his character include irritability, sharpness, and a love of luxury.