Russian author and medical doctor (1891?1940)
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Born
| Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
15 May [
O.S.
3 May] 1891
Kiev
,
Russian Empire
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Died
| 10 March 1940
(1940-03-10)
(aged 48)
Moscow
,
Russian SFSR
,
Soviet Union
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Resting place
| Novodevichy Cemetery
, Moscow
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Occupation
| Novelist, short-story writer, playwright, physician
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Nationality
| Russian
, later
Soviet
[1]
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Genre
| Satire, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction
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Notable works
| A Young Doctor's Notebook
Heart of a Dog
The White Guard
The Days of the Turbins
The Master and Margarita
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Spouse
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Tatiana Lappa
(
m.
1913;
div.
1924)
Lubov Belozerskaya
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m.
1925;
div.
1931)
Elena Shilovskaya
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m.
1932)
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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
(Russian:
Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
,
IPA:
[m??x??il
?f??nas?j?v??d??b?l??ak?f]
;
[2]
15 May [
O.S.
3 May] 1891 ? 10 March 1940) was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.
[1]
He is best known for his novel
The Master and Margarita
,
[3]
published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
[4]
He is also known for his novel
The White Guard
; his plays
Ivan Vasilievich
,
Flight
(also called
The Run
), and
The Days of the Turbins
; and other works of the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote mostly about the horrors of the
Russian Civil War
and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the
Tsarist Army
caught up in revolution and Civil War.
[5]
Some of his works (
Flight
, all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the
Soviet government
, and personally by
Joseph Stalin
, after it was decided by them that they "glorified
emigration
and
White
generals".
[6]
On the other hand, Stalin loved
The Days of the Turbins
(also called
The Turbin Brothers
) very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.
[7]
[8]
Life and work
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Early life
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Bulgakov House in Moscow. Bulgakov's novel
Master and Margarita
was written here.
Mikhail Bulgakov was born on 15 May [
O.S.
3 May] 1891 in
Kiev
,
Kiev Governorate
of the
Russian Empire
, into a Russian family. He was the oldest of the seven children of
Afanasiy Bulgakov
[
ru
]
– a
state councilor
, a professor at the
Kiev Theological Academy
, as well as a prominent Russian
Orthodox
essayist, thinker and translator of religious texts. His mother was Varvara Mikhailovna Bulgakova (
nee
Pokrovskaya), a former teacher. Both of his grandfathers were clergymen in the
Russian Orthodox Church
.
[9]
Afanasiy Bulgakov was born in
Bryansk Oblast
, Russia, where his father was a priest, and he moved to Kiev to study in the academy.
[10]
Varvara Bulgakova was born in
Karachev
, Russia.
[11]
According to Edythe C. Haber, in his "autobiographical remarks" Bulgakov stated that she was a descendant of
Tartar
hordes, which supposedly influenced some of his works.
[12]
From childhood, Bulgakov was drawn to theater. At home, he wrote comedies, which his brothers and sisters acted out.
[13]
In 1901, Bulgakov joined the First Kiev Gymnasium, where he developed an interest in
Russian
and
European literature
(his favourite authors at the time being
Gogol
,
Pushkin
,
Dostoyevsky
,
Saltykov-Shchedrin
, and
Dickens
), theatre and opera. The teachers of the Gymnasium exerted a great influence on the formation of his literary taste. After the death of his father in 1907, Mikhail's mother, a well-educated and extraordinarily diligent person, assumed responsibility for his education. After graduation from the Gymnasium in 1909,
[14]
Bulgakov entered the Medical Faculty of
Kiev University
. In 1913, Bulgakov married Tatiana Lappa.
Bulgakov was staying with Lappa's parents in
Saratov
at the outbreak of the
First World War
. He returned to Kiev and volunteered for the
Red Cross
, after which he then took a position as an undergraduate physician at hospital in
Chernovtsy
.
[15]
After passing medical exams with special commendation, he was sent to frontline field hospitals in western Ukraine. In 1916 he was transferred to the village of Nikolskoye in the
Smolensk Oblast
. Bulgakov wrote short stories based on his experience working there, which would be published separately in 1925?1926 when he was already an established writer, and later collected and republished into a short story cycle entitled
A Young Doctor's Notebook
. The most known story,
Morphine
, is based on the author's actual addiction to
morphine
, which he started taking to alleviate the allergic effects of an anti-
diphtheria
drug, after accidentally infecting himself with the disease while treating a child with the same condition. While visiting Kiev with his wife, they received advice from Bulgakov's stepfather on countering his addiction in the form of injecting distilled water instead of morphine, which gradually helped Bulgakov to end his addiction.
[16]
In 1917 he was transferred to the village of Vyazma, but later left for Moscow in an unsuccessful attempt to gain a military discharge, and also possibly to seek clinical help for his addiction. After briefly visiting Lappa's parents in
Saratov
, they returned to Kiev in February 1918.
[17]
Upon returning Bulgakov opened a private practice at his home at Andreyevsky Descent, 13. Here he lived through the
Civil War
and witnessed ten coups. Successive governments drafted the young doctor into their service while two of his brothers were serving in the
White Army
against the Bolsheviks.
In February 1919, he was mobilised as an army physician by the
White Army
and assigned to the Northern Caucasus. There, he became seriously ill with
typhus
and barely survived.
[15]
[18]
In the Caucasus, he started working as a journalist, but when he and others were invited to return as doctors by the French and German governments, Bulgakov was refused permission to leave Russia because of the typhus. That was when he last saw his family; after the Civil War and the rise of the Soviets most of his relatives emigrated to Paris.
Career
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After his illness, Bulgakov abandoned his medical practice to pursue writing. In his autobiography, he recalled how he began: "Once in 1919 when I was traveling at night by train I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story".
[15]
His first book was an
almanac
of
feuilletons
called
Future Perspectives
, written and published the same year. In December 1919, Bulgakov moved to
Vladikavkaz
. He wrote and saw his first two plays,
Self Defence
and
The Turbin Brothers
, being produced for the city theater stage with great success.
[14]
[15]
Bulgakov in the 1910s
After travelling through the Caucasus, Bulgakov headed for Moscow, intending "to remain here forever". It was difficult to find work in the capital, but he was appointed secretary to the literary section of Glavpolitprosvet (Central Committee of the Republic for Political Education).
[15]
In September 1921, Bulgakov and his wife settled near
Patriarch's Ponds
, on
Bolshaya Sadovaya street, 10
(now close to
Mayakovskaya metro station
). To make a living, he started working as a correspondent and
feuilletons
writer for the newspapers
Gudok
,
Krasnaia Panorama
and
Nakanune
, based in Berlin.
[15]
For the almanac
Nedra
, he wrote
Diaboliad
,
The Fatal Eggs
(1924), and
Heart of a Dog
(1925), works that combined bitter satire and elements of science fiction and were concerned with the fate of a scientist and the misuse of his discovery. The most significant features of Bulgakov's satire, such as a skillful blending of fantastic and realistic elements, grotesque situations, and a concern with important ethical issues, had already taken shape; these features were developed further in his most famous novel.
[13]
Between 1922 and 1926, Bulgakov wrote several plays (including
Zoyka's Apartment
), none of which were allowed production at the time.
[14]
The Run
, treating the horrors of a fratricidal war, was personally banned by
Joseph Stalin
after the Glavrepertkom (Department of Repertoire) decided that it "glorified emigration and
White
generals".
[15]
In 1924, Bulgakov divorced his first wife and the next year married Lyubov Belozerskaya.
When one of Moscow's theatre directors severely criticised Bulgakov, Stalin personally protected him, saying that a writer of Bulgakov's quality was above "party words" like "left" and "right".
[19]
Stalin found work for the playwright at a small Moscow theatre, and next the
Moscow Art Theatre
(MAT). Bulgakov's first major work was the novel
The White Guard
(Belaya gvardiya [Белая гвардия]), serialized in 1925 but never published in book form.
[20]
On 5 October 1926,
The Days of the Turbins
, the play which continued the theme of
The White Guard
(the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil war)
[13]
was premiered at the MAT.
[14]
Stalin liked it very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.
[7]
[8]
His plays
Ivan Vasilievich
(Иван Васильевич),
Don Quixote
(Дон Кихот) and
Last Days
(Последние дни [Poslednie Dni], also called
Pushkin
) were banned. The premier of another,
Moli?re
(also known as
The Cabal of Hypocrites
)
, about the
French dramatist
in which Bulgakov plunged "into fairy Paris of the XVII century", received bad reviews in
Pravda
and the play was withdrawn from the theater repertoire.
[15]
In 1928,
Zoyka's Apartment
and
The Purple Island
were staged in Moscow; both comedies were accepted by the public with great enthusiasm, but critics again gave them bad reviews.
[15]
By March 1929, Bulgakov's career was ruined when Government censorship stopped the publication of any of his work and his plays.
[14]
In despair, Bulgakov first wrote a personal letter to Joseph Stalin (July 1929), then on 28 March 1930, a letter to the Soviet government.
[21]
He requested permission to emigrate if the Soviet Union could not find use for him as a writer.
[15]
In his autobiography, Bulgakov claimed to have written to Stalin out of desperation and mental anguish, never intending to post the letter. He received a phone call directly from the Soviet leader, who asked the writer whether he really desired to leave the Soviet Union. Bulgakov replied that a Russian writer cannot live outside of his homeland. Stalin gave him permission to continue working at the Art Theater; on 10 May 1930,
[14]
he re-joined the theater, as stage director's assistant. Later he adapted
Gogol
's
Dead Souls
for stage.
[13]
In 1932, Bulgakov married for the third time, to Yelena Shilovskaya, who would prove to be inspiration for the character Margarita in his most famous novel, on which he started working in 1928.
[15]
During the last decade of his life, Bulgakov continued to work on
The Master and Margarita
, wrote plays, critical works, and stories and made several translations and dramatisations of novels. Many of them were not published, others were "torn to pieces" by critics. Much of his work (ridiculing the Soviet system) stayed in his desk drawer for several decades. The refusal of the authorities to let him work in the theatre and his desire to see his family who were living abroad, whom he had not seen for many years, led him to seek drastic measures
[
clarification needed
]
. Despite his new work, the projects he worked on at the theatre were often prohibited, and he was stressed and unhappy.
Last years
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In the late 1930s, he joined the
Bolshoi Theatre
as a
librettist
and consultant. He left after perceiving that none of his works would be produced there. Stalin's favor protected Bulgakov from arrests and execution, but he could not get his writing published. His novels and dramas were subsequently banned and, for the second time, Bulgakov's career as playwright was ruined. When his last play
Batum
(1939), a complimentary portrayal of Stalin's early revolutionary days,
[22]
was banned before rehearsals, Bulgakov requested permission to leave the country but was refused.
Gravestone of Mikhail Bulgakov and
Elena Bulgakova
In poor health, Bulgakov devoted his last years to what he called his "sunset" novel. The years 1937 to 1939 were stressful for Bulgakov, veering from glimpses of optimism, believing the publication of his masterpiece could still be possible, to bouts of depression, when he felt as if there were no hope. On 15 June 1938, when the manuscript was nearly finished, Bulgakov wrote in a letter to his wife:
"In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript (about 22 chapters). The most important remains ? editing, and it's going to be hard, I will have to pay close attention to details. Maybe even re-write some things... 'What's its future?' you ask? I don't know. Possibly, you will store the manuscript in one of the drawers, next to my 'killed' plays, and occasionally it will be in your thoughts. Then again, you don't know the future. My own judgement of the book is already made and I think it truly deserves being hidden away in the darkness of some chest..."
[13]
In 1939, Mikhail Bulgakov organized a private reading of
The Master and Margarita
to his close circle of friends.
Elena Bulgakova
remembered 30 years later, "When he finally finished reading that night, he said: 'Well, tomorrow I am taking the novel to the publisher!' and everyone was silent", "...Everyone sat paralyzed. Everything scared them. P. (P. A. Markov, in charge of the literature division of MAT) later at the door fearfully tried to explain to me that trying to publish the novel would cause terrible things", she wrote in her diary (14 May 1939).
[13]
In the last month of his life, friends and relatives were constantly on duty at his bedside. On 10 March 1940, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov died from
nephrotic syndrome
[23]
(an inherited kidney disorder). His father had died of the same disease, and from his youth Bulgakov had guessed his future mortal diagnosis. On 11 March, a
civil funeral
was held in the building of the
Union of Soviet Writers
. Before the funeral, the Moscow sculptor
Sergey Merkurov
removed the
death mask
from his face. He was buried in the
Novodevichy Cemetery
in Moscow.
Works
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During his life, Bulgakov was best known for the plays he contributed to
Konstantin Stanislavski
's and
Nemirovich-Danchenko
's Moscow Art Theatre. Stalin was known to be fond of the play
Days of the Turbins
(Дни Турбиных, 1926), which was based on Bulgakov's novel
The White Guard
. His dramatization of
Moliere
's life in
The Cabal of Hypocrites
(Кабала святош, 1936) is still performed by the Moscow Art Theatre. Even after his plays were banned from the theatres, Bulgakov wrote a comedy about
Ivan the Terrible
's visit into 1930s
Moscow
. His play
Batum
(Батум, 1939) about the early years of Stalin was prohibited by the premier himself. Bulgakov later reflected his experience of being a Soviet playwright in
Theatrical Novel
(Театральный роман, 1936, unfinished).
Bulgakov began writing novels with
The White Guard
(Белая гвардия) (1923, partly published in 1925, first full edition 1927?1929, Paris) ? a novel about a life of a
White Army
officer's family in
civil war
Kiev
. In the mid-1920s, he came to admire the works of
Alexander Belyaev
and
H. G. Wells
and wrote several stories and novellas with elements of
science fiction
, notably
The Fatal Eggs
(Роковые яйца) (1924) and
Heart of a Dog
(Собачье сердце) (1925). He intended to compile his stories of the mid-twenties (published mostly in medical journals) that were based on his work as a country doctor in 1916?1918 into a collection titled
Notes of a Young Doctor
(Записки юного врача), but the book came out only in 1963.
[24]
The Fatal Eggs
tells of the events of a Professor Persikov, who, in experimentation with eggs, discovers a red ray that accelerates growth in living organisms. At the time, an illness passes through the chickens of Moscow, killing most of them, and to remedy the situation, the Soviet government puts the ray into use at a farm. Due to a mix-up in egg shipments, the Professor ends up with chicken eggs, while the government-run farm receives the shipment of ostrich, snake and crocodile eggs ordered by the Professor. The mistake is not discovered until the eggs produce giant monstrosities that wreak havoc in the suburbs of Moscow and kill most of the workers on the farm. The propaganda machine turns on Persikov, distorting his nature in the same way his "innocent" tampering created the monsters. This tale of a bungling government earned Bulgakov his label of counter-revolutionary.
Heart of a Dog
features a professor who implants human testicles and a
pituitary gland
into a dog named Sharik (means "Little Balloon" or "Little Ball" ? a popular Russian nickname for a male dog). The dog becomes more and more human as time passes, resulting in all manner of chaos. The tale can be read as a critical satire of liberal nihilism and the communist mentality. It contains a few bold hints to the communist leadership; e.g. the name of the drunkard donor of the human organ implants is Chugunkin
[a]
which can be seen as a parody on the name of Stalin ("stal'" is steel). It was adapted as a comic
opera
called
The Murder of Comrade Sharik
by
William Bergsma
in 1973. In 1988, an award-winning film version
Sobachye Serdtse
was produced by
Lenfilm
, starring
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
, Roman Kartsev and
Vladimir Tolokonnikov
.
The Master and Margarita
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Soviet postal stamp: prepaid postcard of 1991
The novel
The Master and Margarita
is a critique of Soviet society and its literary establishment. The work is appreciated for its philosophical undertones and for its high artistic level, thanks to its picturesque descriptions (especially of old Jerusalem), lyrical fragments and style. It is a
frame narrative
involving two characteristically related time periods, or plot lines: a retelling in Bulgakov's interpretation of the
New Testament
and a description of contemporary Moscow.
The novel begins with
Satan
visiting Moscow in the 1930s, joining a conversation between a critic and a poet debating the most effective method of denying the existence of
Jesus Christ
. It develops into an all-embracing indictment of the corruption of communism and Soviet Russia. A story within the story portrays the interrogation of Jesus Christ by
Pontius Pilate
and the
Crucifixion
.
It became the best known novel by Bulgakov. He began writing it in 1928, but the novel was finally published by his widow only in 1966, twenty-six years after his death. The book contributed a number of sayings to the Russian language, for example, "Manuscripts don't burn" and "second-grade freshness". A destroyed manuscript of the Master is an important element of the plot. Bulgakov had to rewrite the novel from memory after he burned the draft manuscript in 1930, as he could not see a future as a writer in the Soviet Union at a time of widespread political repression.
Legacy
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Exhibitions and museums
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- Several displays at the
One Street Museum
are dedicated to Bulgakov's family. Among the items presented in the museum are original photos of Mikhail Bulgakov, books and his personal belongings, and a window frame from the house where he lived. The museum also keeps scientific works of Prof. Afanasiy Bulgakov, Mikhail's father.
Mikhail Bulgakov Museum, Kyiv
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The
Mikhail Bulgakov Museum
(Bulgakov House) in
Kyiv
has been converted to a literary museum with some rooms devoted to the writer, as well as some to his works.
[25]
This was his family home, the model for the house of the Turbin family in his play
The Days of the Turbins
.
The Bulgakov Museums in Moscow
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In Moscow, two museums honour the memory of Mikhail Bulgakov and
The Master and Margarita
. Both are situated in Bulgakov's old apartment building on Bolshaya Sadovaya street nr. 10, in which parts of
The Master and Margarita
are set. Since the 1980s, the building has become a gathering spot for Bulgakov's fans, as well as Moscow-based
Satanist
groups, and had various kinds of
graffiti
scrawled on the walls. The numerous paintings, quips, and drawings were completely whitewashed in 2003. Previously the best drawings were kept as the walls were repainted, so that several layers of different colored paints could be seen around the best drawings.
[26]
There is a rivalry between the two museums, mainly maintained by the later established official Museum M.A. Bulgakov, which invariably presents itself as "the first and only Memorial Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov in Moscow".
[27]
The Bulgakov House
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The
Bulgakov House
(
Russian
: Музей ? театр "Булгаковский Дом") is situated at the ground floor. This museum has been established as a private initiative on 15 May 2004.
The
Bulgakov House
contains personal belongings, photos, and several exhibitions related to Bulgakov's life and his different works. Various poetic and literary events are often held, and excursions to
Bulgakov's Moscow
are organised, some of which are animated with living characters of
The Master and Margarita
. The
Bulgakov House
also runs the
Theatre M.A. Bulgakov
with 126 seats, and the
Cafe 302-bis
.
The Museum M.A. Bulgakov
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In the same building, in apartment number 50 on the fourth floor, is a second museum that keeps alive the memory of Bulgakov, the
Museum M.A. Bulgakov
(
Russian
: Музей М. А. Булгаков). This second museum is a government initiative, and was founded on 26 March 2007.
The Museum M.A. Bulgakov contains personal belongings, photos, and several exhibitions related to Bulgakov's life and his different works. Various poetic and literary events are often held.
Mikhail Bulgakov Museum, Kyiv
Other places named after him
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Works inspired by him
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Literature
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Music
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Film
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- The Flight
(1970) ? a two-part historical drama based on Bulgakov's
Flight
,
The White Guard
and
Black Sea
. It was the first Soviet adaptation of Bulgakov's writings directed by
Aleksandr Alov
and
Vladimir Naumov
, with Bulgakov's third wife Elena Bulgakova credited as a "literary consultant". The film was officially selected for the
1971 Cannes Film Festival
.
- The Master and Margaret
(1972) ? a joint Yugoslav-Italian drama directed by
Aleksandar Petrovi?
, the first adaptation of the novel of the same name, along with
Pilate and Others
. It was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
at the
45th Academy Awards
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
- Pilate and Others
(1972) ? a German TV drama directed by
Andrzej Wajda
, it was also a loose adaptation of
The Master and Margarita
novel. The film focused on the biblical part of the story, and the action was moved to the modern-day
Frankfurt
.
- Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future
(1973) ? an adaptation of Bulgakov's science fiction/comedy play
Ivan Vasilievich
about an unexpected visit of
Ivan the Terrible
to the modern-day Moscow. It was directed by one of the leading Soviet comedy directors
Leonid Gaidai
. With 60.7 million viewers on the year of release it became the 17th most popular film ever produced in the USSR.
[32]
- Dog's Heart
(1976) ? a joint Italian-German science fiction/comedy film directed by
Alberto Lattuada
. It was the first adaptation of the
Heart of a Dog
satirical novel about an old scientist who tries to grow a man out of a dog.
- The Days of the Turbins
(1976) ? a three-part Soviet TV drama directed by
Vladimir Basov
. It was an adaptation of the
play of the same name
which, at the same time, was Bulgakov's stage adaptation of
The White Guard
novel.
- Heart of a Dog
(1988) ? a Soviet black-and-white TV film directed by
Vladimir Bortko
, the second adaptation of the novel of the same name. Unlike the previous version, this film follows the original text closely, while also introducing characters, themes and dialogues featured in other Bulgakov's writings.
- The Master and Margarita
(1989) ? a Polish TV drama in four parts directed by
Maciej Wojtyszko
. It was noted by critics as a very faithful adaptation of the original novel.
- After the Revolution
(1990) ? a feature-length film created by Andras Szirtes, a Hungarian filmmaker, using a simple video camera, from 1987 to 1989. It is a very loose adaptation, but for all that, it is explicitly based on Bulgakov's novel, in a thoroughly experimental way. What you see in this film is documentary-like scenes shot in Moscow and Budapest, and New York, and these scenes are linked to the novel by some explicit links, and by these, the film goes beyond the level of being but a visual documentary which would only have reminded the viewer of The Master and Margarita.
- Incident in Judaea
, a 1991 film by Paul Bryers for Channel 4, focussing on the biblical parts of The Master and Margarita.
- The Master and Margarita
(1994) ? Russian film directed by
Yuri Kara
in 1994 and released to public only in 2011. Known for a long, troubled post-production due to the director's resistance to cut about 80 minutes of the film on the producers' request, as well as copyright claims from the descendants of
Elena Bulgakova
(Shilovskaya).
- The Master and Margarita
(2005) ? Russian TV mini-series directed by Vladimir Bortko and his second adaptation of Bulgakov's writings. Screened for
Russia-1
, it was seen by 40 million viewers on its initial release, becoming the most popular Russian TV series.
[33]
- Morphine
(2008) ? Russian film directed by
Aleksei Balabanov
loosely based on Bulgakov's autobiographical short stories
Morphine
and
A Country Doctor's Notebook
. The screenplay was written by Balabanov's friend and regular collaborator
Sergei Bodrov, Jr.
before his tragic death in 2002.
- The White Guard
(2012) ? Russian TV mini-series produced by
Russia-1
. The film was shot in
Saint Petersburg
and
Kyiv
and released to mostly negative reviews. In 2014 the
Ukrainian Ministry of Culture
banned the distribution of the film, claiming that it shows "contempt for the Ukrainian language, people and state".
[34]
- A Young Doctor's Notebook
(2012?2013) ? British mini-series produced by
BBC
, with
Jon Hamm
and
Daniel Radcliffe
playing main parts. Unlike the Morphine film by Aleksei Balabanov that mixed drama and thriller, this version of
A Country Doctor's Notebook
was made as a
black comedy
.
- The Master and Margarita
. (2024) ? Film directed by
Michael Lockshin
.
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Medical eponym
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After graduating from the Medical School in 1909, he spent the early days of his career as a venereologist, rather than pursuing his goal of being a pediatrician, as
syphilis
was highly prevalent during those times. It was during those early years that he described the symptoms and characteristics of syphilis affecting the bones. He described the abnormal and concomitant change of the outline of the crests of the shin-bones with a pathological worm-eaten like appearance and creation of abnormal osteophytes in the bones of those suffering from later stages of syphilis. This became known as "Bulgakov's Sign" and is commonly used in the former Soviet states, but is known as the "Bandy Legs Sign" in the west.
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Bibliography
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Novels
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Novellas and short stories
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- Great Soviet Short Stories
(1962)
- The Terrible News: Russian Stories from the Years Following the Revolution
(1990)
- Diaboliad and Other Stories
(1990)
- Notes on the Cuff & Other Stories
(1991)
- The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire, 1918?1963
(1993)
Theatre
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Biography
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- Life of M. de Moliere
, 1962
Notes
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The surname Chugunkin comes from "chugunka" is an informal term for railroad called so because the rails were made from
cast iron
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chugun
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References
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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
Encyclopædia Britannica
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Sonne, Paul (16 February 2024).
"Life Imitates Art as a 'Master and Margarita' Movie Stirs Russia - An American director's adaptation of the beloved novel is resonating with moviegoers, who may recognize some similarities in its satire of authoritarian rule"
.
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Archived
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Mukherjee, Neel (9 May 2008).
"The Master and Margarita: A graphic novel by Mikhail Bulgakov"
.
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subject of Bulgakov's works (main part of the text starts from the "novel Belaya gvardiya (The White Guard)..."
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Mikhail Bulgakov in the Western World: A Bibliography
Mikhail Bulgakov in the Western World: A Bibliography
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Why Did Stalin Loved The Days of the Turbuns.
Почему Сталин любил спектакль ≪Дни Турбиных≫. Опубликовано: 15 октября 2006 г.
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Stalin’s secret love affair with The White Guard
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Lesley Milne.
Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography
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Ермишин О. Т.,
Православная энциклопедия
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Mikhail Bulgakov: The Early Years
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Curtis, J.A.E. (2017).
Critical Lives: Mikhail Bulgakov
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Chudakova, Marietta (2019).
Mikhail Bulgakov: the Life and Times
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Vilensky, Yu, G., Bulgakov's doctor (1991) T. I. Borisova (ed.) Kiev. Zdorovie. pp. 99?103.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Bulgakov's first work was Belaya gvardiya (The White Guard)
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Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков. Письмо правительству СССР
(in Russian). lib.ru/Новый мир, 1987, N8
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Zilberstein, Gleb; Maor, Uriel; Baskin, Emmanuil; D'Amato, Alfonsina; Righetti, Pier Giorgio (2016). "Unearthing Bulgakov's trace proteome from the Master i Margarita manuscript".
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Inna Konchakovskaia (1902?85) a daughter of the owner (who had become a hero of Bulgakov's novel) and niece of composer
Witold Maliszewski
preserved the house during hard soviet times.
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Stephen, Chris (5 February 2005). "Devil-worshippers target famous writer's Moscow flat". The Irish Times. Page 9.
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Galtseva, Elina.
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Gittins, Ian (9 August 2021).
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Harkins, Thomas; Corbett, Bernard (2016).
Pearl Jam FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Seattle's Most Enduring Band
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Soviet box office leaders
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KinoPoisk
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Surgical Diagnosis
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From Upyr' to Vampire: The Slavic Vampire Myth in Russian Literature
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Biographies of Bulgakov
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- Chudakova, Marietta. 2019,
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- Curtis, J.A.E., 2017.
Critical Lives
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Russia under Communism: Bulgakov, his Life and his Book
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The Master and the Devil
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Letters, memoirs
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- Belozerskaya-Bulgakova, Lyubov 1983.
My life with Mikhail Bulgakov
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- Cockrell, Roger. 2013.
Diaries and Selected Letters
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Manuscripts don't burn: Mikhail Bulgakov: a life in letters and diaries
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- Vozvdvizhensky, Vyacheslav (ed) 1990.
Mikhail Bulgakov and his times: memoirs, letters
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