Russia’s book market finds itself under mounting strain as the government steadily expands its censorship regime.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twentieth-century author Mikhail Bulgakov is celebrated worldwide for his satirical genius and his defiance of Soviet power, most ...

Written during the Soviet era, Mikhail Bulgakov's classic novel, The Master and Margarita, continues to resonate in today's Russia. In times of turmoil, Russians turn to their great writers for ...

Heritage Images/Getty Images; Pacific University Press, 2000; e-artnow, 2015; Independently published, 2020 Before he made a name for himself as a genius writer, Mikhail Bulgakov worked as a medical ...

Bulgakov's novella charts zoologist Professor Persikov's chance discovery of a strange light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction in living creatures. When a plague obliterates Russia's ...

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 2 April 2010 In the article below about the background to the play The White Guard by Mikhail ...