Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov
Born	May 15 [O.S. May 3] 1891 Kiev
Died	March 10, 1940 Moscow
Occupation	novelist & playwright

Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков; May 15 [O.S. May 3] 1891, Kiev – March 10, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for the novel The Master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov File links The following pages link to this file: Mikhail Bulgakov ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... Old Style or O.S. is a designation indicating that a date conforms to the Julian calendar, formerly in use in many countries, rather than the Gregorian calendar, currently in use in most countries. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... Old Style or O.S. is a designation indicating that a date conforms to the Julian calendar, formerly in use in many countries, rather than the Gregorian calendar, currently in use in most countries. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ... The Master and Margarita (Russian: ) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven about the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. ...

Biography

Mikhail Bulgakov was born to Russian parents in Kiev, Ukraine, the oldest son of a professor at a theological seminary. The Bulgakov sons enlisted in the White Army, and in post-Civil War Russia, ended up in Paris, save for Mikhail. Mikhail, who enlisted as a field doctor, ended up in the Caucasus, where he eventually began working as a journalist. Despite his relatively favoured status under the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin, Bulgakov was prevented from either emigrating or visiting his brothers in the West.^{[citation needed]} Some details of his biography are unclear as Bulgakov was quite secretive about his past life and swore his wives to secrecy about it. Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... Theology (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογια, logia, words, sayings, or discourse) is reasoned discourse concerning religion, spirituality and gods. ... White army may refer to: The military arm of the White movement, a loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Civil War The Saudi Arabian National Guard The National Guard of Kuwait This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... Combatants Red Army (Bolsheviks) White Army (Monarchists, SRs, Anti-Communists) Green Army (Peasants and Nationalists) Black Army (Anarchists) Commanders Leon Trotsky Mikhail Tukhachevsky Semyon Budyonny Lavr Kornilov, Alexander Kolchak, Anton Denikin, Pyotr Wrangel Alexander Antonov, Nikifor Grigoriev Nestor Makhno Strength 5,427,273 (peak) +1,000,000 Casualties 939,755... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... The Ethnolinguistic patchwork of the modern Caucasus - CIA map Russia Georgia Azerbaijan (Azer. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

In 1913 Bulgakov married Tatiana Lappa. At the outbreak of the First World War he volunteered with the Red Cross. In 1916, he graduated from the Medical School of Kiev University and then served in the White Army. He was briefly forcibly mobilized by the Ukrainian Nationalist Army. In 1919 he decided to leave medicine to pursue his love of literature. In 1921, he moved with Tatiana to Moscow where he began his career as a writer. Three years later, divorced from his first wife, he married Lyubov' Belozerskaya. He published a number of works through the early and mid 1920s, but by 1927 his career began to suffer from criticism that he was too anti-Soviet. By 1929 his career was ruined and none of his works were published due to censorship. Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The Anarchist Black Cross was originally called the Anarchist Red Cross. The band Redd Kross was originally called Red Cross. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... Censorship is the removal of information from the public, or the prevention of circulation of information, where it is desired or felt best by some controlling group or body, that others are not allowed to access the information which is being censored. ...

In 1931, Bulgakov married for the third time, to Yelena Shilovskaya, who would prove to be inspiration for the character Margarita from his most famous novel, and settled with her at Patriarch's Ponds. During the last decade of his life, Bulgakov continued to work on The Master and Margarita, wrote plays, critical works, stories, and made several translations and dramatisations of novels, but these were unpublished. Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Patriarshy Ponds (Russian Патриаршие пруды, nickname Patriki - Патрики) is an old wealthy district in Moscow, an exclusive residential area in the center of the city. ...

Bulgakov never supported the regime, and mocked it in many of his works. Therefore, most of them were consigned to his desk drawer for several decades. In 1930 he wrote a letter to Stalin requesting permission to emigrate if the Soviet Union could not find use for him as a satirist and received a personal phone call from Stalin himself, denying him that. Stalin had enjoyed Bulgakov's work, The Days of the Turbins and found work for him at a small Moscow theatre, and then the Moscow Art Theatre. In his autobiography and in many biographies, it is stated that Bulgakov wrote the letter out of desperation and mental anguish, never actually intending to post it. The refusal of the authorities to let him work in the theatre and his desire to see his family living abroad, whom he had not seen for many years, led him to seek drastic measures. Despite his new work, the projects he worked on at the theatre were unsuccessful and he was stressed and unhappy. He also worked briefly at the Bolshoi Theatre as a librettist, but left after his works were not produced. Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1897 by Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. ... Theatre Square in Moscow. ...

Bulgakov died from an inherited kidney disorder in 1940 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. The kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs in vertebrates. ... Grave of Anton Chekhov Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the World Heritage Site, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the citys third most popular tourist site. ...

Early works

During his life, Bulgakov was best known for the plays he contributed to Konstantin Stanislavsky'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) is still run by the Moscow Art Theatre. Even after his plays were banned from the theatres, Bulgakov wrote a grotesquely funny comedy about Ivan the Terrible's visit into 1930s Moscow and several plays about the young years of Stalin. This perhaps saved his life in the year of terror 1937, when nearly all writers who did not support the leadership of Stalin were purged. Konstantin (Constantin) Stanislavski (Константи́н Серге́евич Станисла́вский / Алексе́ев) (January 5, 1863... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Molière, engraved frontispiece to his Works Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière (January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673), was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire. ... Ivan IV (August 25, 1530–March 18, 1584) was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title of tsar. ... The 1930s (years from 1930-1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვი&#4314... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Bulgakov started writing prose in the early 1920s, when he wrote The White Guard (Белая гвардия) (1924, published in 1966) - a novel about a life of a White Army officer's family in Civil war Kiev, and a short story collection entitled Notes of a Young Doctor (Записки юного врача), based on Bulgakov's work as a country doctor in 1916 - 1919. In the mid-1920s, he came to admire the works of H.G. Wells and wrote several stories with sci-fi style elements, notably The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца) (1924) and the Heart of a Dog (Собачье сердце) (1925). The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The White Guard (Russian: Белая гвардия) is a novel by 20th century Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, famed for his critically-acclaimed later work The Master and Margarita. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... White army may refer to: The military arm of the White movement, a loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Civil War The Saudi Arabian National Guard The National Guard of Kuwait This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight against each other for the control of political power. ... Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Heart of a Dog is a story by Mikhail Bulgakov. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The Fatal Eggs, a short story inspired by the works of H.G. Wells, 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. Unfortunately there is a mix up in egg shipments and the Professor ends up with the chicken eggs, while the government-run farm receives a shipment of ostriches, snakes and crocodiles that were meant to go to 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 then 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 a counter-revolutionary. H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... In most birds and reptiles, an apple (Latin ovum) is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Binomial name Struthio camelus Linnaeus, 1758 The present-day distribution of ostriches. ... For other uses, see Snake (disambiguation). ... Genera Mecistops Crocodylus Osteolaemus See full taxonomy. ... An Australian anti-conscription propaganda poster from World War One Propaganda is a type of message aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of people. ... A counterrevolutionary is anyone who opposes a revolution, particularly those who act after a revolution to try to overturn or reverse it, in full or in part. ...

Heart of a Dog features a professor who implants human testicles and pituitary gland into a dog named Sharik. The dog then proceeds to become more and more human as time passes, resulting in all manner of chaos. The tale can be read as a critical satire of the Soviet Union; it was turned into a comic opera called The Murder of Comrade Sharik by William Bergsma in 1973. A hugely popular screen version of the story followed in 1988. Heart of a Dog is a story by Mikhail Bulgakov. ... The testicles, or testes (singular testis), are the male generative glands in animals. ... The pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland about the size of a pea that sits in a small, bony cavity (sella turcica) at the base of the brain. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ... William Laurence Bergsma (April 1, 1921–March 18, 1994) was an American composer. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita is a fantasy satirical novel The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита), published by his wife almost thirty years after his death, in 1966, that has granted him critical immortality. The book was available underground, as samizdat, for many years in the Soviet Union, before the serialization of a censored version in the journal Moskva. In the opinion of many, The Master and Margarita is the best Russian novel of the twentieth century. It contributed a number of sayings to the Russian language, for example, "Manuscripts don't burn". A destroyed manuscript of the Master is an important element of the plot, and in fact Bulgakov had to rewrite the novel from memory after he burned the draft manuscript with his own hands. 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... The Master and Margarita (Russian: ) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven about the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Samizdat, book published by Pathfinder Press containing a collection of forbidden Trotskyist Samizdat texts. ...

The novel is a multilayered critique of the Soviet society in general and its literary establishment specifically. It begins with Satan visiting Moscow in the 1920s or 30s, joining a conversation of a critic and a poet, busily debating the existence of Jesus Christ and the Devil. It then evolves into a wholesale indictment of the corruption, greed, narrow-mindedness, and widespread paranoia of Stalinist Russia. Banned but widely read, the novel firmly secured Bulgakov's place among the pantheon of the greatest of Russian writers. For other uses, see Satan (disambiguation). ...

Famous catch-phrases

• "Manuscripts do not burn" ("Рукописи не горят") — The Master and Margarita
• "There is no such thing as second-grade freshness" — The Master and Margarita
• "I'm just sitting here, not touching anybody, fixing the primus" — The Master and Margarita

Bulgakov's flat

Bulgakov's old flat, in which parts of The Master and Margarita are set, has since the 1980s 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. The building's residents, in an attempt to deter loitering, are currently attempting to turn the flat into a museum of Bulgakov's life and works. To date (February, 2005), they have had trouble contacting the flat's anonymous owner. ^[1] The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... Satanism is a religious or philosophical movement centered around Satan or another entity identified with Satan, or centered around the forces of nature, particularly human nature, represented by Satan as an archetype. ... Graffiti is the unofficial application of graphics on publicly viewable surfaces. ...

On December 21, 2006, the museum in Bulgakov's flat was damaged by an anti-satanist protestor and disgruntled neighbor, Alexander Morozov. ^[2] The museum remains open.

Bibliography

Bibliography in English

Yury Yakovlev and Leonid Kuravlyov in Leonid Gaidai's adaptation of Bulgakov's play Ivan Vasilievich (1973).

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Novels and short stories

• Great Soviet short stories, New Laurel edition, New York: Dell, 1962, 1990. Contains Adventures of Chichikov.
• The Master and Margarita, translated by Mirra Ginsburg, New York: Grove Press, 1967, 1995.
• The Master and Margarita, translated by Michael Glenny, London: Harvill, 1967; with introduction by Simon Franklin, New York: Knopf, 1992; London: Everyman's Library, 1992.
• Black snow: Theatrical Novel, translated by Michael Glenny, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967; London: Collins-Harvill, 1986, 1991, 1996.
• A Country Doctor's Notebook, translated by Michael Glenny, London: Collins-Harvill, 1975, 1990, 1995.
• Diaboliad and Other Stories, edited by Ellendea Proffer and Carl R. Proffer, translated by Carl R. Proffer, 2d ed. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1990, 1993.
• The Terrible news: Russian stories from the years following the Revolution, London: Black Spring Press, 1990, 1991. Contains The Red crown.
• Diaboliad, translated by Carl Proffer with an introduction by Julie Curtis, London: Harvill, 1991.
• Notes on the Cuff & Other Stories, translated by Alison Rice, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1991.
• The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire, 1918-1963, edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg, London: Quartet, 1993.
• The Master and Margarita, translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine O'Connor, annotations and afterword by Ellendea Proffer, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1993, 1995.
• The Master and Margarita, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, London: Penguin, 1997.
• The Master and Margarita, London: Picador, 1997.

Theater

• The Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Carl R. Proffer and Ellendea Proffer, Dana Point: Ardis Publishers, 1990, 1995.
• Peace plays: two, selected and introduced by D. Lowe, London: Methuen Drama, 1990. Contains Adam and Eve.
• Zoya's apartment: A tragic farce in three acts, translated by Nicholas Saunders and Frank Dwyer, New York: Samuel French, 1991.
• Zoyka's apartment (revised: adaptation of 1929 and 1935 texts), translated and adapted by Nicholas Saunders and Frank Dwyer, Smith and Kraus, 1996.
• Six plays, translated by William Powell, Michael Glenny and Michael Earley, introduced by Lesley Milne, London: Methuen Drama, 1991, 1994 (includes bibliographical references). Contains The White Guard, Madame Zoyka, Flight, Moliere, Adam and Eve, The Last Days.

Bibliography in Russian

Bulgakov's tomb at Novodevichy Cemetery incorporates a gravestone taken from Gogol's grave during his reburial in 1931.

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Novels and short stories

• Записки на манжетах [Zapiski na manzhetakh, "Notes on The Cuffs"], short stories, "Nakanune", Moscow: 1922; "Vozrozhdenie", Moscow: 1923; "Rossija", Moscow: 1923; "Zvezda Vostoka", Taskent: 1973, n. 3. Translated in English with the title Notes on Cuffs.
• Белая гвардия [Belaya Gvardiya, "The White Guard"], novel, "Rossiya", Moscow: 1924-1925 [incomplete]; first complete edition in Izbrannaya proza ["Chosen Prose"], 1966. Translated with the title The White Guard.
• Дьяволиада [D'javoljada], short novel, "Al'manach 'Nedra'", IV, 1924; "Nedra", Moscow: 1926; London: 1970.
• Собачье сердце ["Heart of a Dog"], 1925; edited with introduction and commentary by Avril Pyman, London: Bristol Classical, 1994 (Russian text with English critical apparatus). Translated with the title Heart of a Dog.
• Роковые яйца [Rokovye Yaytsa, "Fatal eggs"], novel, "Al'manach 'Nedra'", VI, 1925; London: 1970. Translated with the title Fatal Eggs. (Spoiler warning: in at least one Hesperus edition of Fatal Eggs the preface writer gives away the ending in the preface.)
• Похождения Чичикова ["Chichikov's adventures"], 1925.
• Записки юного врача [Zapiski Yunogo Vracha, "Notes of a country doctor"], short stories, "Krasnaya Panorama" and "Meditsinsky Rabotnik", Moscow: 1925-1926.
• [Rasskazy], Mosca: 1926.
• Морфий [Morfij, "Morfine"], 1926.
• Жизнь господина де Мольера ["Life of Monsieur de Molière"], 1936.
• Театральный роман ["Theatrical novel"], short novel written between 1936 and 1939, "Novy Mir" 1965. Translated with the title Black Snow, or the Theatrical Novel.
• Мастер и Маргарита [Master i Margarita, "The Master and Margarita"], novel written between 1929 and 1939, first edition partially censored in "Moskva", Moscow, n. 11, 1966 and n. 1, 1967; first complete edition in Russian, Frankfurt: 1969. Translated with the title The Master and Margarita.

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• Зойкина квартира, [Zoikina kvartira, "Zoya's apartment"], 1925. Contemporary satire.
• Дни Турбиных [Dni Turbinykh, "Days of the Turbins"], first representation October 5, 1926. Published Moscow: 1965; Letchworth (UK): 1970. Based on the novel The White Guard, describes one family's survival in Kiev during the Russian Civil War.
• Бег [Beg, "Flight"], 1926-1928. Translated with the title Flight. Satirizing the flight of White emigrants to the West.
• Кабала святош [Kabala svyatosh, "The cabal of the hypocrites"], 1929. Moliere's relations with Louis XIV's court.
• Адам и Ева [Adam i Eva, "Adam and Eve"], 1931.
• Блаженство ["Beatitude"], 1933-1934.
• Иван Васильевич ["Ivan Vasilyevich"], 1934-1935. Ivan the Terrible brought by the Time Machine to a crowded apartment in the 1930s Moscow, screen version: Ivan Vasilievich: back to the future.
• Дон Кихот [Don Kikhot, "Don Quixote"], 1937-1938.
• Пушкин [Puskin, "Pushkin"] or Последние дни [Poslednie Dni, "The last days"], 1940. The last days of the great Russian poet.
• Батум [Batum, "Batumi"]. Translated as Batum. Stalin's early years in Batumi.
• ["L'isola purpurea"]
• ["La corona rossa"]

Anthologies, collected works and letters 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (279th in Leap years). ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Combatants Red Army (Bolsheviks) White Army (Monarchists, SRs, Anti-Communists) Green Army (Peasants and Nationalists) Black Army (Anarchists) Commanders Leon Trotsky Mikhail Tukhachevsky Semyon Budyonny Lavr Kornilov, Alexander Kolchak, Anton Denikin, Pyotr Wrangel Alexander Antonov, Nikifor Grigoriev Nestor Makhno Strength 5,427,273 (peak) +1,000,000 Casualties 939,755... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Written by Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer during the Soviet era, Flight was a political satire of the Soviet regime ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Molière, engraved frontispiece to his Works Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière (January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673), was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire. ... Sun King redirects here. ... Michelangelos Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ivan IV (August 25, 1530–March 18, 1584) was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title of tsar. ... Time Machine may refer to one of the following. ... The 1930s (years from 1930-1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... (IPA: ) or (The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha) is a novel by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... A general view of Batumi Batumi (Georgian: , formerly Batum or Batoum) is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვი&#4314... A general view of Batumi Batumi (Georgian: , formerly Batum or Batoum) is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. ...

• [P'esy, "Comedies"], Moscow: 1962.
• [Dramy i Komedii, "Dramas and comedies"], Moscow: 1965.
• [Izbrannaya proza, "Chosen Prose"], Moscow: 1966.
• [Romany, "Novels"], Moscow: 1974.
• [Pis'ma, "Letters"], Moscow: Sovremennik, 1989.

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External links

• (English) Master and Margarita Amateur but very high-quality site, devoted solely to Bulgakov's Master and Margarita (in Dutch, English and Russian)
• (French) http://www.marguo.com A french website about The Master and Margarita
• (English) Bulgakov's Master and Margarita
• (Russian) Bulgakov.ru — amateur but very high-quality site, devoted solely to Bulgakov and his works (in Russian)
• (English) Mikhail Bulgakov (in German, English and Russian)
• (Russian) Bulgakov Project at km.ru
• (Russian) Klassika Bulgakov - Russian and English texts online.
• Mikhail Bulgakov in the Western World: A Bibliography, Library of Congress, European Reading Room

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