That's the setup for Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, a scathingly satiric tale of Soviet censors, informers, and intellectual courtiers that doubles as an unorthodox retelling of the ...

The monument to Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov, author of the fantastical classic novel "The Master and Margarita", was recently sprayed with red paint. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) A Kyiv-based ...

Little known to those not familiar with contemporary Bengali literature is the influence of Mikhail Bulgakov on Nabarun Bhattacharya. ‘Nabarun’ as he’s widely known in West Bengal is a ...

The anniversary of Mikhail Bulgakov was celebrated on Saturday, May 15, TASS reports. It is 130 years since the birth of the famous writer. Bulgakov created one of the most legendary works of Russian ...

An adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic Russian novel “The Master and Margarita” is inching closer to a Western release as it heads to AFM this week. The feature, directed by Michael ...

In times of turmoil, Russians turn to their great writers for inspiration. One of those writers is Mikhail Bulgakov, who died 75 years ago. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin liked some of Bulgakov's ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. Mikhail Bulgakov often lamented about being born in the wrong time. “Why are you persecuting ...

The historical cemetery is the final resting place of many notable Russians including the writers Mikhail Bulgakov, Anton Chekhov and Nikolai Gogol, composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri ...

Infamously difficult to capture as a motion picture (more mystical observers even speak of a curse), Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” is back, reinterpreted by American-Russian filmmaker ...

The phrase “all hell broke loose” has a hackneyed ring by now, but it comes close to being a literal description of the crazy-quilt narrative of Mikhail Bulgakov’s surrealist novel “The ...

Eamon Flack’s adaptation (script and direction) of Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER & MARGARITA is an intriguing retelling of the Russian writer’s last novel that remained hidden to decades ...