'Red-Stone Moscow' is a collection of essays and feuilletons by Mikhail Bulgakov about Moscow life in the 1920s. The satirist's keen eye captures the absurdity of the new way of life: NEPmen and communal apartments, bureaucracy and the housing crisis. A precursor to 'The Master and Margarita,' these texts brilliantly portray Moscow during the time of great upheaval.
Book in Russian
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian writer, playwright, theater director, and actor. He was the author of novellas, short stories, feuilletons, plays, dramatizations, screenplays, and opera librettos.
Mikhail Bulgakov was born into the family of Afanasy Ivanovich Bulgakov, an associate professor at the Kiev Theological Academy, and his wife Varvara Mikhailovna. There were seven children in the family. In 1909, Mikhail Bulgakov graduated from the First Kiev Gymnasium and entered the medical faculty of Kiev University.…
