The Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a satirist with an outstanding talent for depicting the grotesque, the comic, and the fantastic. Mikhail Bulgakov was born on May 2, 1891, in Kiev of a middle-class...

Mikhail Bulgakov wrote prolifically during a time when old social orders were breaking down and traditional values were rejected. In his story "No. 13. Dom El'pit-Rabkommuna" (No. 13. The Elpit-Rabkommun House, 1922), which describes the destruction of...

Andrzej Drawicz. The Master and the Devil: A Study of Mikhail Bulgakov. Studies in Slavic Language and Literature, Volume 18. trans. Kevin Windle. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. xxiii, 352 pp. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. £74.95, cloth. Although it has been...

For many years specialists have followed with dose attention the publications in Russian and English of the eminent British Bulgakov scholar, Lesley Milne. Drawing on an immense range of published and archival sources, including a number of very significant recent publications, her critical...

Set on a knoll overlooking an oxbow bend in the Moscow River, the hallowed ground of the Novodevichy Cemetery holds the remains of scores of engineers, artists and politicians who helped shape Russia's tormented past century.They include the loved and the loathed, the tragic and...

Thousands of somber, teary-eyed mourners shuffled past the open casket of Boris Yeltsin in a vast cathedral Tuesday, lighting candles and laying flowers as Orthodox priests chanted prayers for the first freely elected president of Russia.Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton headed the...

Below, LeBlanc analyzes The Heart of a Dog (Sobach'e serdtse) as a tale about the need for physical and spiritual sustenance, asserting that Bulgakov's focus on language and imagery pertaining to eating signifies the "deleterious effects that the Bolshevik Revolution and the concomitant victory of the proletariat were having upon the level of culture in Soviet Russia. "

In the following excerpt, Proffer provides an overview of the five stories that comprise the 1925 Russian collection D'iavoliada (Diaboliad, and Other Stories).

Wright is an English educator, author, and critic. In the following excerpt, he discusses Notes of a Young Doctor and the short fiction of Bulgakov that appeared in various Russian journals in the early 1920s.