Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kyiv in 1891, then in the Russian Empire, the son of a professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy. He studied medicine at Kyiv University and, during the First World War, worked as a doctor at the front and then in a rural hospital, experiences described in A Young Doctor's Notebook. During the Russian Civil War he was a doctor with the White Army. He then moved to Moscow to write. His novel The White Guard, about a family in Kyiv during the Civil War, was adapted as the play The Days of the Turbins, which was a great success. But Soviet critics attacked his satires, and by the end of the 1920s his plays were banned. In 1930 he wrote to the Soviet government asking to be allowed to emigrate or to work; Joseph Stalin telephoned him, and he was given a job at the Moscow Art Theatre. For more than ten years he worked secretly on The Master and Margarita, in which the Devil visits Moscow. He died in Moscow in 1940; the novel was first published in the 1960s.

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Faith: Son of a professor at the Kiev Theological Academy; after his father's death he turned away from the Orthodox faith. Source: Wikipedia