Dni Turbinykh [The Days of the Turbins]

The work of Mikhail Bulgakov has a tremendous impact on contemporary literature. And not only because he is recognized as a genius writer. Bulgakov was no less a brilliant thinker, capable of not only correctly assessing difficult socio-political situations, but also foreseeing the future. The play 'Days of the Turbins', created on the basis of the novel 'The White Guard', is devoted to perhaps the most tragic pages of Russian history - the Civil War. This was the only play in the Soviet theater, where whites were shown not with a caricature, but with obvious sympathy. Moreover, Colonel Alexei Turbin was clearly endowed with autobiographical features of Bulgakov himself. The critic of Lithuania (the prototype of Latunsky from The Master and Margarita) dubbed the play 'The Cherry Orchard of the' White Movement '. P. Markov, then overwhelmed by the Moscow Art Theater, noted that '...' Turbin Days 'became a kind of new' Seagull 'of the Art Theater.' In total, from 1926 to 1941, the play p