“The Wonderful Doctor”: the evolution of the image of a doctor in pre-revolutionary and Soviet literature

Abstract

In the article the author addresses the topic of the evolution of the image of a doctor in the Russian literature of the 19th century (in particular, in the works of A.P. Chekhov). The author shows the changes that the image of a doctor in the literature of the twentieth century has undergone (the image of the heroine of the play by A.N. Arbuzov “Tanya”, the image of a doctor in the novel by B.L. Pasternak “Doctor Zhivago”).