Trivia
In Michael Glenny's English translation, when Preobrazhensky asks Sharikov what do he and his co-workers do with the dead cats, he replies: "They go to a laboratory, where they make them into protein for the workers". In the original Russian text (as well as in Vladimir Bortko film) Sharikov's reply is: "They will be made into fur collars on the coats, workers would buy them as squirrels". This is a mistake of the translator, who has apparently confused the word белок ('belok, Russian genitive plural for белка (squirrel)) for a homographic белок (bel'ok, protein), .
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