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which the action took place. After the review by Pravda of the play's
premiere, the play was banned from the theater repertoire. Bulgakov's play
Batum about the revolutionary years of Joseph Stalin, was prohibited
by Stalin himself. His plays Ivan Vasilievich, Last Days (Pushkin),
and Don Quixote were also banned. In despair that his works
could not be published and his plays not performed in theaters, Bulgakov
wrote a letter to Stalin requesting that he be allowed to go abroad. His
request was in vain; he did not receive permission.

Bulgakov's personal life was not a fortunate one, yet during his student
years he fell in love and married Tat'iana Lappa. Together they experienced
the Civil War, enthusiasm and disappointment, joy and sorrow, happiness,
and bitterness at the time of parting when they were divorced. Bulgakov
married a second and a third time.

Bulgakov envisioned and began his beloved novel The Master and Margarita
in 1928, and did the last editing two weeks before his death. The refusal
of the authorities to let him work in the theater and the provocations
of the critics seemed to damage his health. He became seriously ill and
died on March 10, 1940.

 



WORKS ABOUT M. BULGAKOV

DISSERTATIONS

1. Angell, M. Max

Ontological vertigo : the metafiction of Cervantes' Don Quixote and
Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. M.A. diss., University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993, iv. 86 leaves.

2. Bassett, Antoinette M.

H.G.. Wells and Mikhail Bulgakov : A Study of Influence and
Intertextuality.
M.A. ids., University of Alaska, Anchorage, 1996, 238 p.

3. Brintlinger, Angela Kay

The Russian Biographical Novel of the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties
(IUrii Tynianov, Vladislav Khodasevich, Mikhail Bulgakov). Ph.D. ids.,

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