Mikhail Bulgakov

When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of...
By: Mikhail Bulgakov

Now adapted into a new series on Sky Arts starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe "The perverse inability of we humans to learn from our mistakes is what beats at the black heart of A Young Doctor's Notebook (Sky Arts 1)" Metro In this collection of...
By: Mikhail Bulgakov

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita – now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature – was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This...
By: Mikhail Bulgakov

Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country’s poultry stocks, Persikov’s discovery is exploited...
By: Mikhail Bulgakov

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918–19, The White Guard , Bulgakov’s first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy’s War...
By: Mikhail Bulgakov

In Bulgakov’s ‘Diaboliad’, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior Kalsoner,...
By: Mikhail Bulgakov

Completed in 1933, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author’s death, The Life of Monsieur de Molière charts the life of the French playwright, from humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies....
By: Mikhail Bulgakov

Russia’s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman – a professor of black magic – arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc...
By: Mikhail Bulgakov