RUSS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Historical Fiction, Margarita, Moscow Art Theatre
1 Mar 2018
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First name + father"s name + last name. Considered the most un-soviet author during the soviet union. Yet never wrote any anti-soviet statement, expressed his religion, nor political opinions. Insist on his right to his own view and to his imagination. Born in kiev, part of the russian empire. Not common for women to work, let alone as an educator. Father was lecturer at kiev theological academy. Both grandparents were involved in religion too. Well-educated in russian tradition and russian christianity church. Interested in the spiritual, supernatural, occult studies. Doctors were not paid well and not high prestige. Doctors dealt with uneducated people and did everything. Experience as a doctor shaped him and reflected in his story notes of a young. Described his own experience through his character. Bulgakov never got to see his family again because he was stuck in kiev. Chaos of the civil war reflected in his writing. Sympathies are clearly on the side of the white.
