Young Yevtikheyev, who of course knew nothing of these etymological subtleties, used to help his father in the smithy. After the death of his parents he was sent to help in Ekaterinoslav university morgue in St. Andrew’s hospital. And so he began living there. News of this unusual freak spread through the town, and a local circus became interested in him. He was put on show for money, and soon became so famous that there was not a circus in Europe he didn’t perform in. He was known as Zhu-Zhu, and was also called the Human Dog.
Once when the circus was on tour in Warsaw, a scientist – who strangely enough bore the same surname – became interested in the hairy man. He was Vissarion Yefimovich Yevtikheyev and was born in 1846. He graduated from the Kazan veterinarian institute and taught in
