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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight, and The Days of the Turbins.
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science · Russian and Soviet author (1891–1940) · novelist · playwright · physician · satirist · short story writer · librettist · screenwriter · science fiction writer · journalist · theatre director · also Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, Mikhail A. Bulgakov, Michael Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Bulgakov
Born 3 May 1891 · Died 10 March 1940 · Q835
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Mikhail Bulgakov News
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2022· 1 entry
Following the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the National Writers' Union of Ukraine claimed that Bulgakov “hated” the idea of Ukrainian statehood and “glorified” the Russian tsar and monarchy
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2021· 1 entry
RBTH: 3 books that made Mikhail Bulgakov want to be a writer
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2018· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Mikhail Bulgakov's DEAD MAN'S DIARY: A Theatrical Novel Comes to Life at the Emerson Paramount Center
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2014· 1 entry
The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture banned the distribution of the film, claiming that it shows "contempt for the Ukrainian language, people and state"
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2013· 1 entry
The Irish Times: Mikhail Bulgakov: Diaries and Selected Letters, translated by Roger Cockrell
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2012· 1 entry
British Comedy Guide: Mikhail Bulgakov
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2007· 1 entry
The Guardian: Rereading + Mikhail Bulgakov
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1988· 1 entry
An award-winning film version Sobachye Serdtse was produced by Lenfilm, starring Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Roman Kartsev and Vladimir Tolokonnikov
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1962· 1 entry
His Life of Monsieur de Molière was published; in 1963, Notes of a Young Doctor; in 1965, Theatrical Novel and a collection of his plays, including Flight, Ivan Vasilievich, and The Cabal of Hypocrites were published; in
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1957· 1 entry
17 years after Bulgakov's death
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1954· 1 entry
Would his play Day of the Turbins be staged again at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre
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1940· 8 entries
Died 1940-03-10.
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“Behemot ukroił sobie kawałek ananasa, posolił go, popieprzył, zjadł, a potem tak brawurowo chlupnął drugą setkę spirytusu, że wszyscy zaczęli mu bić brawo…”
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“No poder escribir es lo mismo que ser enterrado vivo.”
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“Tak, człowiek jest śmiertelny, ale to jeszcze pół biedy. Najgorsze, że to, iż jest śmiertelny, okazuje się niespodziewanie, w tym właśnie sęk!”
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“Ten, który kocha, powinien dzielić los tego, kogo kocha.”
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“Opis: Małgorzata i Behemot.”
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“(Proszę) o wydanie mi rozkazu opuszczenia granic ZSRR w trybie natychmiastowym w towarzystwie żony (…). Proszę, by Rząd Radziecki podjął wobec mnie takie kroki, jakie sam uzna za stosowne, byleby podjął jakiekolwiek, gdyż dla mnie, autora 5 sztuk, dramaturga o nazwisku znanym zarówno w ZSRR, jak i poza jego granicami, perspektywa na dziś jest jedna – nędza, bezdomność, śmierć.”
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“Świadom niemożności wydawania oraz wystawiania moich utworów w Związku Radzieckim zwracam się z prośbą o pomoc w spowodowaniu wygnania mnie przez Rząd ZSRR poza jego granice wraz z żoną.”
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1939· 1 entry
Bulgakov organized a private reading of The Master and Margarita to his close circle of friends
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1931· 1 entry
“Opis: diagnoza stawiana przez Bułhakowa w 1931, na dziewięć lat przed śmiercią.”
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1930· 1 entry
As he could not see a future as a writer in the Soviet Union at a time of widespread political repression
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1929· 1 entry
Bulgakov met Elena Shilovskaya
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1928· 1 entry
But the novel was finally published by his widow only in 1966, twenty-six years after his death
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1925· 2 entries
Bulgakov was approached by the Vakhtangov Theatre to write a play for them based on The White Guard
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First full edition 1927–1929, Paris) – a novel about a life of a White Army officer's family in civil war Kiev
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1924· 1 entry
Bulgakov attended a party hosted by Aleksey Tolstoy, where he met Lyubov Belozerskaya
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1919· 1 entry
Was mobilised as an army physician by the White Army
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1916· 2 entries
Studied at Bogomolets National Medical University (1909–1916).
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Bulgakov graduated from the university, after which he volunteered for the Red Cross
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1909· 2 entries
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
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Studied at Kiev Gymnasium (1909).
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-05-03.
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