Mikhail Bulgakov

Between Russia and Europe warily sits Ukraine. Her recent history has been, and will continue to be, undeniably grim and torturous as its larger bullying neighbour attempts to subjugate her independent will to its own with spurious threads of its own...

Mikhail Bulgakov was born on 15th May 1891 in Kiev, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire, into a Russian family. He was one of seven children.In 1901, Bulgakov attended the First Kiev Gymnasium, and developed a keen interest in Russian and...

The Devil comes to Moscow; but he isn’t all bad. Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption; and a writer tries to destroy his greatest tale, but discovers that manuscripts don’t burn. Multi-layered and...

The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the twentieth century, despite its surreal environment of talking cats, Satan and mysterious happenings. Naxos AudioBooks presents this careful abridgement of a new...

Mikhail Bulgakov was born on 15th May 1891 in Kiev, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire, into a Russian family. He was one of seven children.In 1901, Bulgakov attended the First Kiev Gymnasium, and developed a keen interest in Russian and...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult...

In the Ukrainian capital Kiev (‘the City’), life has become frightening and fragile. Bulgakov’s first full-length novel is set in the harsh and chaotic winter of 1918–19, as power struggles start to play out with brutal consequences. Echoing Tolstoy’s...

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков работал над романом, вышедшим в свет под названием «Мастер и Маргарита», с 1928 по 1940 год, практически до конца жизни. За это время значительно изменились авторское понимание произведения и его текст. На этом диске...

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков работал над романом "Мастер и Маргарита" больше десяти лет: практически до конца жизни он поправлял и пересоздавал текст произведения. На этом диске представлена редакция, озаглавленная автором "Князь тьмы". Ранние редакции...