Mikhail Bulgakov in the Western World
A Bibliography (1990 - 1997) -
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the publisher of the newspaper who published the story".His first plays, Self-defense and Turbin Brothers, were written in Vladikavkaz and shown there on the city stage with great success. After short travels in Vladikavkaz, Piatigorsk, Tiflis, and Batum, Bulgakov went to Moscow in the 1921, intending "to remain here forever". It was difficult to find work in the capital, but he was fortunate - he was appointed secretary to the literary section of Glavpolitprosvet. To make a living, he worked as a correspondent and wrote feuilletons for the newspapers Gudok, Krasnaia Panorama and the Berlin newspaper Nakanune. For the almanac Nedra, he wrote The Heart of a Dog (1925), The Fatal Eggs, Diaboliad (1924), and The Adventures of a Chichikov.
Bulgakov's began writing the story about the Civil War in Ukraine in 1923, which he published in the journal Rossiia under the title The White Guard. At the request of Moscow Art Theater (MKHAT), Bulgakov wrote on the basis of this story the play The Days of the Turbins (1926), which was staged on the stage of MKHAT with great success.
In 1928, Moscow theaters presented his comedies Zoya's apartment and The Purple Island. Although both comedies were accepted by public with great enthusiasm, the critics gave them bad reviews.
In the play Beg, Bulgakov treated the horrors of a fratricidal war. The Glavrepertkom, which had the power to sanction or prohibit the play, decided that Beg glorified emigration and White generals. Although rehearsals were continued, Stalin prohibited Beg on the Soviet stage.
In the play Molier (The Cabal of Hypocrites), Bulgakov plunges "into fairy Paris of the XVII century". The duel of the great dramatist and actor, Moliere, with a royal palace hypocrite was the theme around