Bulgakov Biography The basis

His father was a professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy, mother, Barbara Bulgakova, worked as a teacher before marriage. The Bulgakovs attached great importance to the education and development of children Mikhail was the eldest of the seven. The family loved reading and music, set charity performances. In the same year, he entered the medical faculty of Kyiv University. In the summer of the year, having passed the final exams, Bulgakov went to the front as a volunteer in the Red Cross, but he was recalled in the fall.

Young doctors were sent to rural hospitals: Bulgakov became the only doctor of the hospital of the Sychevsky district of the Smolensk province. At this time, he began to write stories about his experience - they will become a cycle of “Notes of a young doctor”. In the fall, he was sent to Vladikavkaz by a military doctor of the White Army. After the victory of the Bolsheviks, Bulgakov remained in the city, but abandoned his medical career and decided to devote himself to writing.

Here he wrote and set his first plays, including the drama about the Turbin brothers, from which the Roman "White Guard" and the play "Days of the Turbins" will grow. In years, the texts of Bulgakov were printed in emigrant publications. Bulgakov was close to the “changers” - the movement in the emigrant environment that began with the collection “Change of Milestones”: its participants advocated dialogue with the Bolsheviks and the preservation of the unity of Russian culture.

The plays “Days of the Turbins” and “Zoikina apartment”, set almost simultaneously, were successful with the audience, but caused the alertness of Soviet criticism. The play “Running” written for the Moscow Art Theater was forbidden to set, and all the Bulgakov plays were removed in the repertoire. In years, he could only write the staging of classics for Moscow theaters. In parallel until the end of his life, he worked on the “Roman about the devil”, which will eventually become the novel “Master and Margarita”.

He received real recognition only after the publication of the “Master and Margarita” in - GG. So his sister Nadezhda wrote about him: “He laughed a lot and set the tone for our fun, was an excellent storyteller about it a lot about it, everyone knows this. We listened to his breath. But there were moments in his life when he thought. He sat at his desk, a student with a cigarette, was silent and thought.

What did he think about? What was he silent about? About the meaning of life. About the purpose of life. On the appointment of a person. " You can read about popular legends and whether they are testing with facts. We will call his most significant works.