БУЛГАКОВ: Как МОРФИНИСТ написал ГЛАВНЫЙ роман XX века, который ЗАПРЕТИЛИ на 30 лет!

This biography of Mikhail Bulgakov is a striking story about how a former morphine addict wrote the defining novel of the 20th century, The Master and Margarita, which was banned for 30 years. We know him as a brilliant mystic, but his real life was filled with torment, fear, and struggle with the Soviet system. He survived the hell of drug addiction (morphine), persecution by critics, NKVD raids, and personal phone calls from Stalin. He finished writing his main book as he lay dying, dictating lines to his wife. And although the manuscript didn't burn, it lay in his desk drawer for many years after his death. Was he an unrecognized prophet who made a deal with the forces of darkness, or simply an incredibly talented man broken by the times? 00:00:00 — The Mystery of the Novel "The Master and Margarita" 00:00:54 — Bulgakov Writes the Novel in Secret 00:01:48 — The Death of the Writer and the Fate of the Book 00:03:36 — Bulgakov's Childhood and Family 00:05:28 — Theater, Music, and the Cultural Environment 00:06:25 — Father's Illness and Fear of Heredity 00:07:20 — Studies and First Wife 00:08:16 — War and Work as a Doctor 00:09:17 — The Life of a Young Doctor in the Wilderness 00:11:11 — The Beginning of Morphine Addiction 00:12:54 — Increased Addiction 00:14:44 — Moving to Vyazma and the Crisis 00:15:43 — Tatyana Saves Bulgakov 00:19:32 — Return to normal life 00:20:24 — The story "Morphine" 00:21:23 — Civil War in Kyiv 00:22:11 — The decision to become a writer 00:23:11 — A hard life in Moscow 00:25:01 — First major works 00:25:53 — "Heart of a Dog" and "The White Guard" 00:26:42 — The scandal surrounding "The Days of the Turbins" 00:27:36 — Stalin supports the play 00:30:23 — Dangerous dependence on Stalin 00:31:18 — Ban on new plays 00:32:16 — Persecution and poverty 00:35:07 — Letter to the USSR government 00:36:03 — An unexpected call from Stalin 00:37:21 — Bulgakov's conversation with Stalin 00:38:19 — A Failed Meeting 00:39:18 — The Mystery of Stalin's Call 00:40:15 — Working at the Moscow Art Theater 00:41:11 — New Prohibitions and Disappointment 00:42:01 — Meeting Elena Shilovskaya 00:42:54 — Love as the Basis of the Novel 00:43:50 — The Role of Elena Sergeevna 00:44:49 — The History of the Novel 00:46:35 — The Evolution of "The Master and Margarita" 00:47:27 — Why Bulgakov Continued to Write 00:50:13 — A Personal Confession in the Novel 00:51:53 — Faith in the Immortality of Art 00:52:50 — The Last Years of Life 00:55:34 — The Last Race with Death 00:56:05 — The Death of Mikhail Bulgakov 00:57:03 — Publication of the Novel 00:58:00 — Readers' Reactions 00:58:54 — The Book's Cult Popularity 00:59:51 — Bulgakov's Posthumous Fame 01:00:50 — Art Stronger Than the System 01:02:43 — The Book's Victory Over Its Era Sources used in the creation of this video: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Булгако... Russian Wikipedia. A complete chronology with an extensive academic bibliography: birth on May 3 (15), 1891, in Kyiv, medical practice, morphine addiction in 1917, "The White Guard," "The Days of the Turbins," letter to the government in 1930, call from Stalin, work at the Moscow Art Theater, "The Master and Margarita," death on March 10, 1940, from hypertensive nephrosclerosis. https://um.mos.ru/personalities/bulga... Discover Moscow — the official portal of the Moscow Government. A structured biography: the writer's Moscow addresses, the play "Batum" about Stalin in 1939 and the telegram about its cancellation, a sharp deterioration in health, loss of vision, return to morphine, dictation of the final drafts of "The Master and Margarita" to his wife, power of attorney for managing affairs. https://www.livelib.ru/author/408-mih... LiveLib. A detailed biography with quotes from the memoirs of E. S. Bulgakova and V. Vilenkin: the libretto for "Rachel" (1939), diagnosis of hypertensive nephrosclerosis, morphine since 1924 for pain relief, the last period of his life. https://stuki-druki.com/authors/Bulga... Stuki-Druki is a large biographical article. Details on his personal life: three wives (Tatiana Lappa as the prototype for Anna Kirillovna in "Morphine," Lyubov Belozerskaya, and Elena Shilovskaya as the prototype for Margarita), a trip to the Caucasus in 1928, the conception of "The Master and Margarita," and work on "The Cabal of Hypocrites." https://biographe.ru/znamenitosti/mih... Biographe.ru — "Life and Death." An episode with the struggle against morphine addiction (his wife Tatyana replaced the drug with distilled water), Bulgakov the doctor's realization of his doom, dictating a novel through pain, the collection "Notes of a Young Doctor," 48 years of life.