Mikhail+Bulgakov

Born on 3 May (15 May, new style) 1891 in Kiev, the eldest son of a professor at the Kiev Theological Academy. He had two brothers and four sisters. From 1901 to 1909 he attended Aleksandrovsky High School and enjoyed the theater. His father died in 1907. In 1909 he enrolled at the Medical School of Kiev University. In 1913 he married Tatiana Lappa. After graduating from medical school in 1913, he moved to the village of Nikolskoe and later to Vyazma for his obligatory medical service. He returned to Kiev in February 1918 and opened a private medical practice at his home. In the confused political situation of revolutionary Ukraine, he was drafted by the Whites as a field doctor and sent to the Caucasus. Toward the end of 1919 he left the military. This was also the year he began writing. He recalls: > "Once in 1919 when I was traveling at night by train I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper, who published the story." He settled in Vladikavkaz and undertook journalistic work. It was here that he wrote his first plays, //**Self-Defense**// and **//Turbin Brothers//**, which were staged at the local theater and enjoyed considerable success. Beginning in May 1921 he began moving around, looking for a job in Tbilisi, Batum, again in Kiev, then finally landing up in Moscow.

Bulgakov wrote humorous sketches and feuilletons for various papers, most notably //Gudok// and //Krasnaya Panorama//. In 1922 he became associated with the Berlin-based Russian paper //Nakanune//. Many of his early works are semi-autobiographical such as **//The Extraordinary Adventures of a Doctor//** (1922) and **//Notes on the Cuffs//** (1922-23).

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===**Plays** ===
 * //The Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov//, 1990
 * //Peace plays: two//, 1990
 * //Zoya's apartment: A tragic farce in three acts//, 1991
 * //Six plays//, 1991


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 * [|Bulgakov museum in Moscow]
 * Bulgakov's biography at [|SovLit.com]
 * [|Bulgakov's former residence] in [|Moscow]  (360 [|Panorama]  )