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 ...

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 ...

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 Lockshin ...

In Soviet Russia, where Marxist ideology, socialist-realist novels and dissident fiction were all deadly serious, Mikhail Bulgakov’s joyful fantasy “The Master and Margarita” captivated ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...