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Near Moscow: Whitney Houston in the Soviet army The front page mainstream grief about the death of stars always makes me ask...
Caucasian holiday? The mountains catch your eye wherever you are in the Caucasus. Even when you...
Extremely obscure, very authentic, unbelievably Bulgakov-ish… At the hour of the hot spring sunset, two citizens appeared at Patriarch's...
Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian journalist, playwright, novelist, and short story writer.
He is most famous for his fantasy novel “The Master and Margarita”, a story unfolding in Stalinist Moscow which is visited by the Devil. The book is considered a major Russian novel of the 20th century.
Once a favorite of Stalin, he eventually fell out of favor with the leader, and his works were more or less banned for decades. However, Bulgakov himself was spared imprisonment and death in the gulag, unlike many of his contemporary colleagues.