Mikhail Bulgakov

Satan comes to Soviet Moscow in this critically acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature.
The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin's time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and...

The Outer Darkness” - is a fascinating short story by the famous Russian writer, playwright, and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). Once in the evening the boy from the neighboring village arrives to the village doctor. The doctor examines him and diagnosticates malaria and sends him to the hospital. At night the doctor is woken up by the scared nurse, who asks to run to the patient very urgently.

The Redstone Moscow” - is a splendid essay by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). This is an ordinary Moscow landscape. The trams are buzzing, the children are having fun, the newspaper sellers are shouting along the whole street, trying to draw the passers-by's attention and the cars are rushing along the road.

I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, where no

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In the Ukrainian capital Kiev ('the City'), life has become frightening and fragile. Bulgakov's first full-length novel is set in the harsh and chaotic winter of 1918–19, as power struggles start to play out with brutal consequences. Echoing Tolstoy's approach in War and Peace, Bulgakov contrasts the concerns of domestic life with the wide-ranging and destructive historical events; but where Tolstoy's structure is clear, Bulgakov interweaves narrative,...