Mikhail Bulgakov was a controversial figure in the ... he would have just died of despair." Photo shows A book cover design of The Master and Margarita. On it a smoking cat looks at the silhouette ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s anti-censorship Soviet novel "The Master and Margarita" is causing a stir at the Kremlin after it won rave reviews from Russian film-goers.

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 ...

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 ...

Ms. Neumeyer is a journalist and historian of Russia and Eastern Europe. According to “The Master and Margarita,” Mikhail Bulgakov’s celebrated novel about the devil’s visit to Stalinist ...