Michail Bulgakow

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was a Russian writer, playwright, and satirist. Born in Kyiv, he studied medicine and initially worked as a country doctor before moving to Moscow in 1921 to pursue literature and journalism. During the Russian Civil War, he served as a military doctor with different armies. Bulgakov faced Stalinist censorship throughout his career: many of his plays were not staged, and several major prose works were published only after his death. His best-known works include the novels The White Guard and The Master and Margarita, as well as the novella Heart of a Dog. The Master and Margarita was first published in the Soviet Union in 1968, in a censored version. Bulgakov died in Moscow.