Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?: Mikhail Bulgakov at the Moscow Art Theatre
Description
This is a book about a power which tried to destroy all that was alive in Russian culture. It is a book about a great Russian theatre seduced by the Stalin regime. It is a book, too, about one man who tried under conditions of absolute unfreedom to retain his own identity and soul - Mikhail Bulgakov.Mikhail Bulgakov was a doctor in Kiev when he became fatally attracted to the theatre. He moved to Moscow and began a career as a novelist and playwright. His first major play, known here as The White Guard, was taken up by the eminence grise of Russian theatre, Konstantin Stanislavsky, director...
ISBN(s)
0415908361, 9780415908368
