''A Young Doctor's Notebook'' (

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: «» ''Zapiski yunogo vracha'', literally, "A Young Doctor's Notes"), also known as ''A Country Doctor's Notebook'', is a

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by the Russian writer

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( ; rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel ''The M ...

. The stories written in 1925–1926 and inspired by Bulgakov's experiences as a newly graduated young doctor in 1916–18, practicing in a small village hospital in

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in revolutionary Russia. The stories initially appeared in Russian medical journals of the period and were later compiled by scholars into book form. The first English translation was done by

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and was published by

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in 1975. A more recent translation (2011) has been done by Hugh Aplin under the Oneworld Classics imprint. The title of the Aplin translation is ''A Young Doctor's Notebook''.

Stories

* "The Towel with a Cockerel Motif" (, translated by Michael Glenny as "The Embroidered Towel") * "Baptism by Version" (, translated by Michael Glenny as "Baptism by Rotation") * "The Steel Throat" (, translated by Michael Glenny as "The Steel Windpipe") * "The Blizzard" () * "Egyptian Darkness" (, translated by Michael Glenny as "Black as Egypt's Night") * "The Missing Eye" (, translated by Michael Glenny as "The Vanishing Eye") * "The Star Rash" (, translated by Michael Glenny as "The Speckled Rash" and by Hugh Aplin as "The Starry Rash") The Michael Glenny translation includes the short stories "The Murderer" (1926) and "Morphine" (1927) which are not included in the original cycle. The Hugh Aplin translation also includes "Morphine" but does not include "The Murderer".

Adaptations

*In 2008, a Russian film adaptation, titled ''

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'', was released. *In 2012, the book was turned into a British television miniseries with the same title and broadcast by

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as a part of the

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strand,

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."''A Young Doctor's Notebook'': From the Operating Table to the Screen", ''The Guardian'', 4 December 2012
/ref> The role of the narrator/doctor is played by

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and

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, both fans of Bulgakov's works. The show also features

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(as the

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Demyan Lukich),

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, and Paul Popplewell.

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