What was the name of Dr. Aybolit’s sister? This question is often found in literary quizzes dedicated to children's tales. A good test for checking memory, isn't it? You will learn the answer to this question from this article.
History of occurrence
The tale "Doctor Aibolit" was created by Korney Chukovsky based on the work of Hugh Lofting "The History of Dr. Doolittle." The question of wrestling in Soviet Russia has always been resolved very harshly, it was considered a bourgeois remnant. Despite this, Chukovsky wrote a free retelling of a foreign fairy tale in the language that her youngest daughter, Murochka, usually narrated. In the history of Lofting, Dr. Dolittle lived in a small town, all the inhabitants of which knew him by sight and considered him very intelligent. What was the name of Dr. Aybolit’s sister? We don’t know yet. But Dr. Doolittle's sister bore the name Sarah, she looked after the household and helped her brother look after the many animals that lived in his house. The doctor lived in the house with furry lodgers and not only: a hedgehog in the basement, white mice in the piano, a squirrel in the closet, and so on. What did Chukovsky adopt from this tale?
Dr. Aibolit
Korney Ivanovich endowed this hero with all the qualities most dear to his heart of a Russian intellectual. For him, Dr. Aibolit is the personification of the forces of good. It is interesting that the description of the famous doctor and writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, which Chukovsky will publish many years later in the collection of biographies "Contemporaries," strongly echoes the image of Aibolit. Both doctors at Korney Ivanovich’s are delicate, selfless, unkempt, with a strong inner core. Sick and exhausted Chekhov travels to Sakhalin in order to help the outcast and disenfranchised people suffering from the "soulless police system", and Dr. Aibolit rushes to the ends of the world to help sick animals. It is unlikely that Chukovsky himself thought about the similarity of these two doctors, but all the more clear what the author meant when he described a kind and disinterested person. The sister of Dr. Aibolit, in contrast to her positive brother, is a very malicious person.
Good and evil
The tale of Korney Ivanovich begins with the words "Once upon a time there was a doctor. He was kind." If you carefully read the diaries of the writer, it will immediately become clear that it was with these words that he began to tell this tale to his four-year-old daughter, Murochka. In Chukovsky’s memoirs, the girl reacted to the appearance of each new character in history with the same question: “Is he kind?” Therefore, in the work all the accents are placed very clearly. What was the name of Dr. Aybolit’s sister? Barbara And she was angry. Why? She just really did not like the animals that the doctor kept at home.
Character names
It is interesting that for Murochka Korney Ivanovich came up with new names for animals. So, the doctor’s dog was called Abba, which in the children's language of the girl meant “dog”. Aibolit owl was called Bumba. This name also appeared in the fairy tale not by chance. So the four-year-old daughter of the writer called the secretary of Chukovsky, Ryzhkin Maria Nikitichna. The woman published her literary works under the pseudonym Pambet. What was the name of Dr. Aybolit’s sister? Barbarian, as we have already figured out. And is it not because she was barbaric about animals?
Barmaley
An interesting story is the emergence of this hero. Once Chukovsky and artist Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky walked around St. Petersburg and thought about the origin of the name "Barmaleeva Street". Who was Barmaley? Dobuzhinsky decided that this man was a famous pirate "in a cocked hat, with such weapons." The artist drew an invented character and invited the writer to make a fairy tale about him. Barmaley never liked Chukovsky, in his diary Korney Ivanovich claimed that he wrote this image especially for Dobuzhinsky, in the style of his pictures. For him, the crooked-legged, mediocre, rude robber is the antithesis of the merciful Dr. Aibolit. And this coordinate system permeates the entire Aibolite-Barmalean cycle of works by Chukovsky.
Barbara
What was the name of Dr. Aybolit’s sister? The writer gave her the name Barbara, and this heroine behaved really barbaric - she beat and offended the defenseless animals that lived with the doctor. Without a doubt, this character was assigned a place near Barmaley. The evil Barbarian was punished for her mischief. The sailor Robinson drove her to an uninhabited island, where she had no one to torment. The doctor’s retaliation for animal cruelty was extremely humane - they did no harm to Barbara. Just isolated from others.
Conclusion
In a series of fairy tales in which Dr. Aibolit is the main character, Chukovsky included three stories. The first is the fairy tale "Barmaley", published in 1924, which the author called the "verbal operetta", created in order to teach children to feel the poetic rhythm. Even Chukovsky called this work an adventure novel for the smallest. The second poetic tale is a completely original work of Korney Ivanovich, published in 1929 under the name "Aibolit". And only in 1936 did Lofting's retelling “Doctor Aibolit” be published in prose. All three stories are included in the golden fund of children's literature. In these tales, more than one generation of children comprehended the difference between good and evil, between merciful Aibolit and his eternal antipode - Barmaley.