If you conduct a survey among reading people on the topic “Beloved Russian writer”, a significant part of the respondents will probably answer: “Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, of course.” This person is associated, first of all, with the talented work “The Master and Margarita”, which is no coincidence: the genius of the novel is recognized today by the entire international community.
M.A. Bulgakov. Biography. Childhood and youth
This is one of the best writers of the XX century, who was born in 1891, May 15. In addition to the boy himself, the family had six more children. Bulgakov’s early years passed in Kiev, a city he loved immeasurably and “inscribed” in many of his books.
In 1906, the young man entered the medical faculty. The study was excellent for him, so in 1916 he graduated from the university, receiving the title "Doctor with honors."
Back in 1913, Mikhail Bulgakov married. His first wife was Tatyana Lappa.
After graduation, Bulgakov was sent to the South-Western Front as a doctor. In 1917 he was transferred to a hospital in the city of Vyazma. It is known that at about the same time he began to take morphine. First for medicinal purposes, and then because of the manifest dependence.
M.A. Bulgakov. Biography. Writing, career
During the years of military service, the doctor began to show the writing abilities of the young man, although this case had long attracted him. The result of the stay in different hospitals was the cycle “Notes of a young doctor”. The young writer Mikhail Bulgakov spoke about his drug addiction in his Morphia.
Since 1921, he began to collaborate with some literary magazines and newspapers. Two years later, Mikhail Afanasevich joined the Writers' Union.
In 1925 he married again. Now on Lyubov Belozerskaya.
Bulgakov began to seriously engage in writing. It is curious that Stalin himself praised the play “Days of the Turbins”, although he noted that the work was anti-communist. Bulgakov met even less approval with his colleagues, who in the vast majority criticized his work.
As a result, by 1930, the writer's works almost stopped publishing and publishing. Among other things, Bulgakov began to try himself on the director's path. In Moscow theaters, many performances staged by him.
His most famous works were: “Dog Heart”, “White Guard”, “Fatal Eggs” and, of course, “Master and Margarita”.
M.A. Bulgakov. Biography. Later years
For the first time, the idea of “The Master and Margarita” appeared among the writer in 1928. And only in 1939 he decided to implement it. However, he could not do this on his own, as his eyesight deteriorated every day. Bulgakov dictated the final version of the novel to his third wife, Elena, with whom they married in 1929. From the beginning of 1940, his relatives and friends were constantly on duty near the bed.
March 10, 1940 there were reports that Mikhail Bulgakov died. The biography of this man was bright and ambiguous. And not only our compatriots, but also foreigners still continue to read the masterpieces created by him.