Biography
Mikhail Bulgakov was born on 15 May 1891 in Kyiv and graduated in medicine from Kyiv University in 1916; he served as a doctor during the First World War and the Russian Civil War. In 1921 he moved to Moscow, where he worked as a journalist before turning fully to writing. His novel “The White Guard” and its stage adaptation “The Days of the Turbins”, which premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1926, made him well known; later plays were banned by Soviet censors, and from 1936 he worked as a librettist and consultant at the Bolshoi Theatre. He continued writing his novel “The Master and Margarita” almost until his death; because of censorship the book was not published until 1966–67, in a shortened form, and is now regarded as one of the major works of twentieth-century Russian literature. Bulgakov died on 10 March 1940 in Moscow of an inherited kidney disease.
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