The White Guard: Illustrations by Valeria Gogina

by Mikhail Bulgakov, Valeria Gogina (Illustrator)

Overview

The White Guard is the first novel by the outstanding Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. The events of the novel take place during the Civil War in Ukraine at the end of 1918. Bulgakov tells about a family of Russian intellectuals and their friends who are experiencing the social cataclysm of the civil war. The novel is largely autobiographical, almost all the characters have prototypes - relatives, friends and acquaintances of the Bulgakov family. The scenery of the novel was the streets of Kyiv and the house in which the Bulgakov family lived in 1918. Other famous works of the writer are "The Master and Margarita", "Heart of a Dog", "Theatrical Romance", "Notes on the Cuffs", "Fatal Eggs", "Notes of a Young Doctor", "Diaboliad", "Running", "Ivan Vasilyevich" .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780880041478
Publisher:	Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Publication date:	11/02/2022
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	454
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков (1891, Киев, - 1940, Москва, СССР) — русский писатель советского периода, врач, драматург, театральный режиссёр и актёр.