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Mikhail Bulgakov

Died in 1940

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), born in Kyiv on 15 May 1891 into a family of intellectuals, studied medicine and practised it before devoting himself to literature. Mobilised during the Civil War, he later settled in Moscow, where his plays ran into censorship. After a letter addressed to the government in 1930, he received a telephone call from Stalin and obtained a post at the Moscow Art Theatre. He died in Moscow on 10 March 1940.

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