Political power in the city changed hands several times, and the local people often found themselves facing different and unexpected state decrees. Chaos and banditry reigned in the city, which was convulsed by revolution and the Civil War. In Kiev, Bulgakov opened a private medical practice where he chiefly treated venereal diseases.
His first wife, Tatiana Lappa, helped him overcome his addiction, which inspired his short story on this tortuous period in his life. In 1918, Bulgakov returned to Kiev, which was engulfed in the Civil War, and there he continued taking the narcotic. And that set him on the road to a habit that grew into a full-fledged addiction.
The anti-diphtheria medication he took provoked an acute allergic reaction, which Bulgakov decided to treat with morphine. One day, when he was still a small town doctor, he was at risk of catching diphtheria after performing an operation. In real life, Bulgakov also became a morphine addict.
What is more, all his works are, to one degree or another, autobiographical. His novels are fantasy, satire and high-quality Russian prose all rolled into one. How the son of a Kiev theologian became a doctorīulgakov's works pioneered a whole new direction in Russian and world literature, and many experts and average readers tend to agree that there’s no other writer like him. For Bulgakov, the novel was a vindication of his wife and an admission of sorts that she had struck such a deal for his sake, to keep him out of harm's way. She left a high-ranking military man for Bulgakov, but she cooperated with certain people in law-enforcement agencies to save Bulgakov from arrest and to arrange for him to be given an opportunity to write. According to literary experts who specialize in Bulgakov’s oeuvre, the novel is strongly autobiographical despite its magical component.Īccording to Bulgakov expert Marietta Chudakova, the author's last wife, Yelena Sergeyevna, might have been an informant for the NKVD. This is the main storyline of Mikhail Bulgakov's most important work, the novel The Master and Margarita, (you can read a short summary of it here). A still from 'The Master and Margarita series'
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