Where should we start, if we talk about the biography of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov? Of course from birth. Boy Misha appeared in the Bulgakov family on May 15, 1891. In the old style it was the third of May. The family of Michael lived in the capital of Ukraine - Kiev. Bulgakov's father was an associate professor of the Kiev Theological Academy. Mikhail's mother did not occupy any special posts and was engaged in the upbringing of children. In addition to the older one, Mikhail Afanasievich, Vera, Nadya, Varvara, Nikolai and Ivan also grew up in the family. By the way, Mikhail Afanasyevich was named in honor of the guardian and patron of the capital - Archangel Michael.
In the preparatory class of the Second Kiev Gymnasium, Misha entered in 1900, and on August 22, 1901 - in the first class of the First Kiev Men's Alexandrovskaya Gymnasium. In 1907 his biography was overshadowed by such an event as the death of his father. Athanasius Bulgakov died of nephrosclerosis. Perhaps, the medical biography of the guy began precisely with the death of a loved one. Bulgakov wanted to be able to save people. Therefore, in 1909 he enrolled in the medical faculty of Kiev University.
Mikhail married early enough. His chosen one was Tatyana Lappa. She came to Kiev on vacation and met with Michael. He fell in love with a girl, proposed to her, and in 1915 married her.
When the First World War began, Mikhail Bulgakov sincerely wanted to carry service and asked the maritime department. But, the young doctor was found incapable of carrying military service, therefore, young Bulgakov had to give up his desires. But, nevertheless, he helped soldiers as he could. In the first years of the war, Mikhail worked in front-line hospitals and saved many lives. He was a really talented physician who wanted his profession not just to make money, but to save lives and help those who need it most.
But, being an excellent doctor and a man, Bulgakov had such a harmful habit as addiction to the drug - morphine. It all started by accident. Bulgakov conducted a tracheotomy for a sick child and, fearing to become infected with diphtheria, made himself an inoculation. Soon he started a terrible itch, and to drown him, the future writer began to take morphine. Over time, taking this drug became a habit for him, which he could no longer get rid of.
But, despite this, Bulgakov continued to achieve new successes in the career of a doctor and in 1917 became head of the infectious and venereal department in Vyazma. In the same year, in December, Bulgakov decides to go to Moscow for the first time. Moreover, he has an uncle there - Professor Pokrovsky. By the way, it was he who became the prototype for Professor Preobrazhensky from the novel "The Dog's Heart". After this trip, Michael returns to his native Kiev with his wife. Mother learns that Bulgakov uses morphine and decides to help his son. Together with her second husband, Professor Voskresensky, they help Bulgakov to overcome the addiction and he opens his own private venereal practice. After the revolution, in 1919 he took part in military operations in the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Then, he was accused of desertion, then fought for the Red Army, but when the fighting began in Kiev, he went over to the Third Cossack Regiment and remained with the regiment as a doctor. Together with them he fought against the insurgent Chechens, and then worked in a military hospital in Vladikavkaz.
At the end of 1919, Mikhail leaves the hospital and decides to put an end to medical practice. The doctor's work does not appeal to him anymore. He understands what he wants and can do completely different, namely, literature. Already in 1919, his first publication appeared in the newspaper Grozny. After that Bulgakov constantly conducts literary activity and in 1919 moved to Moscow. There he serves as Secretary of the Main Glavpolitprosvet under the People's Commissariat for Education. At that time, Bulgakov cooperates with many Moscow newspapers, writes his essays and stories. Then, his first collection of satirical stories, The Devil's, is published. Soon, on the stage of the Moscow theaters put three plays Bulgakov: "Days of the Turbins", "Zoykina apartment" and "Crimson Island".
Bulgakov was an ambiguous writer, who clearly did not like Soviet power. Too much he criticized and ridiculed in his novels. Moreover, he laughed at the working class, over the government, and over the intelligentsia, which forgot what it means to be really intelligent. Educated and thinking people loved Bulgakov, but, all critics constantly wrote about him only bad reviews. In 1930, Bulgakov could not stand it and wrote a letter to Stalin. The letter said that all of his plays are not allowed to be put, and stories and novels - to publish. Therefore, he asks Stalin to let him go abroad, if his work is not needed by anyone and he can not contribute anything to the annals of Russian literature of the twentieth century. Bulgakov asked for understanding and humanity. If they do not want to let him out of the country, at least let them be directed in some remote place, in the theater. Or someone who is somehow connected with the theater. Otherwise, he simply does not know what to do, because he, a writer who is honored abroad, lives in poverty, practically on the street. It is not known whether this letter affected Stalin, but, most likely, he was surprised by the courage of the writer and Bulgakov was allowed to work again as a director or as an assistant to the director. He was engaged in staging plays and continued to write. Unfortunately, emotional experiences and poor living conditions have knocked down the health of a talented writer. He died on March 10, 1949 and rests on the Novodevichy Cemetery. And the modern generation of literary connoisseurs admire his talent and reads novels in which all the problems of the Soviet Union and all the adversity of life in it, at the beginning of the twentieth century, are perfectly represented.