Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was a Russian writer and playwright, born in Kyiv, who trained and practised as a doctor before turning to literature in the early 1920s. His novel The White Guard, about the civil war in Kyiv, became the play The Days of the Turbins at the Moscow Art Theatre, and his satire Heart of a Dog was banned for decades. Much of his work went unpublished under Soviet censorship, including his masterpiece The Master and Margarita, written until his death in Moscow and first published in the 1960s.
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Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was a Russian writer and playwright, born in Kyiv, who trained and practised as a doctor before turning to literature in the early 1920s. His novel The White Guard, about the civil war in Kyiv, became the play The Days of the Turbins at the Moscow Art Theatre, and his satire Heart of a Dog was banned for decades. Much of his work went unpublished under Soviet censorship, including his masterpiece The Master and Margarita, written until his death in Moscow and first published in the 1960s.
