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булкаговOn May 3 there in Hall of world literature is organized the book exhibition named “The master of the mystical word” dedicated to the 130-th birthday of the Russian writer and dramaturgist Mikhail Bulgakov.

Milhail Bulgakov is one of the most well-known Russian writers and dramaturgists. There to his pen belong not only the novels, short novels, stories, plays, but also many satirical articles, cinema scripts, librettos.

He was born on May 15, 1891 in Kiev in the family of assistant-professor, subsequently the professor of the Kiev spiritual academy. He was the eldest child in the family, in which there besides him were other six children. After finishing the First Kiev gymnasium Mikhail continuing the family traditions entered the Kiev university at the medical faculty. About the way of lifein his family he later would write in the novel “The White Guard” (1923) and “The Days of the Turbins” (1925), and about his student years – in the cycle of stories “The notes of the young doctor” (1925).

During the First world war and the Civil war he worked as the front doctor. In 1921 he moved to Moscow where he worked as the satirical articles’ writer in some capital newspapers and magazines. In 1923 he was entered into the Writers’ Union. In 1926 there in the MKHAT was successfully staged the play “The Days of the Turbins” which Stalin liked very much. That same year there in the Theatre after Vakhtangov was taking place the premier of the play “Zoikina’s flat” which was a great success. Regardless of this, the creative activity of the writer met sharp criticism from the Soviet press. In those same years Bulgakov decided to create the widely known novel “The master and Margarita”.

By 1930 many plays stopped being published and staged. When he was in a difficult material situation, he addressed Stalin. Soon he was enlisted into the Central theatre of working youth as the director. And in 1932 at the MKHAT he successfully staged the play by Gogol’s work “The dead souls”. He also worked as an actor there too. His work experience at the theatre he later described in the work “The notes of the dead man” or “The theatre novel”. In 1939 the writer worked upon the play “Batum” about Joseph Stalin and also upon the libretto “Rashel”. At that time he with his wife and colleagues made a trip to Georgia after which his health sharply worsened and he started losing eyesight. In that same period the writer started dictating to his wife E.S. Shilovskaya the last variant of the novel “The master and Margarita”. The first journal publications of “The master and Margarita” are dated by 1966-1967, in 1969 the book with the great quantity of reductions was printed in Germany and at the writer’s native land the full text of the novel came out only in 1973, that is 26 years aft6er the death of the writer and brought for Bulgakov the world renown.

Mikhail Bulgakov died on March 10, 1940 when he was 48 years old and was buried at the Novodevichye cemetery in Moscow.

There at the book exhibition out of ther fond of National library of the RK are presented the books of M.Bulgakov and the literature about him in different languages of the world.