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The Devil comes to Moscow, but he isn't all bad; Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption; and a writer tries to destroy his greatest tale, but discovers that manuscripts don't burn. Multi-layered and entrancing, blending sharp satire with glorious fantasy, The Master and Margarita is ceaselessly inventive and profoundly moving. In its imaginative freedom and raising of eternal human concerns, it is one of the world's great novels.

The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment of talking cats, Satan and mysterious happenings. Naxos AudioBooks presents this careful abridgement of a new translation in an imaginative reading by the charismatic Julian Rhind-Tutt. With War and Peace and Crime and Punishment among the Naxos AudioBooks best-sellers, this too promises to be a front title.

A full-cast dramatization of the classic Russian novel. Satan and his retinue, including a seven foot tall skinny fellow with a pince-nez , an obnoxious cigar smoking black cat and a beautiful naked vampire visit Moscow in the 1920s, taking with them chaos and insanity where ever they go.

Psalm is a short touching story, written in 1923. Part of the "Travel Notes" series. I will buy a dog on Saturday ; I will sing a psalm at night ; I will order shoes for tailcoat... ; But it's okay. Somehow... we will live.

When a respected surgeon decides to transplant human body parts into a stray dog, he creates a monster - drunken, profligate, aggressive and selfish. It seems the worst aspects of the donor have been transplanted as well. As his previously well-regulated home descends into riotous chaos, the doctor realises he will have to try to reverse the operation; but the dog isn't so keen....

Seance is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work, created on the basis of the author's life observations, is Mephistopheles' Patter "Do not invoke him!"

The Komarov Case' - is an exciting story by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), an outstanding writer, playwright and theatre worker. Moscow is in a cold sweat - people disappear one by one, and then the bags with their corpses are found in different parts of the city. According to the same mode of wounds and the method of tying of victims - all these murders is the work of the same person.

Moscow settings - is an exciting story by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), an outstanding writer, playwright and theatre worker. Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities.

The Embroidered Towel is one of the most famous story from a short story collection A Young Doctor's Notebook, also known as A Country Doctor's Notebook. In The Embroidered Towel by Mikhail Bulgakov the young doctor arrives at his new post after a bone-jarring 24-hour wagon ride. He frets about how young he looks, and feels intimidated by the well-stocked pharmacy and medical library his predecessor has left behind. He also worries that he'll have to treat a hernia and won't know what to do - this neurosis is a running joke in the book's initial stories.

Moonshine springs - is a satirical story by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), an outstanding writer, playwright and theatre worker. Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities.

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"Белая гвардия" - роман Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова, описывающий события Гражданской войны на Украине в конце 1918 года.

Kiev suffers from abandonment by the Germans and takeover by the Soviet Bolsheviks. Streamlined for narration and the American ear. 

A novel about Soviet repression in the Russian tradition of Nikolai Gogol in Dead Souls and The Inspector General. Great fun as it explores the repression of that era. 

In this surreal work by the author of The Master and Margarita, wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip Preobrazhensky implants the pituitary gland and testicles of a drunken petty criminal into the body of a stray dog named Sharik. As the dog slowly transforms into a man, and the man into a slovenly, lecherous government official, the doctor's life descends into chaos. A scathing indictment of the New Soviet Man, A Dog's Heart was immediately banned by the Soviet government when it was first published in 1925.

Mihail Afanas'evich Bulgakov rabotal nad romanom, vyshedshim v svet pod nazvaniem "Master i Margarita", s 1928 po 1940 god, prakticheski do konca zhizni. Za ehto vremya znachitel'no izmenilis' avtorskoe ponimanie proizvedeniya i ego tekst. Na ehtom diske predstavlena rannyaya redakciya znamenitogo romana ("Velikiy kancler") i glavy, pererabotannye pisatelem v 1934-1936 gg.

Mihail Afanas'evich Bulgakov rabotal nad romanom "Master i Margarita" bol'she desyati let: prakticheski do konca zhizni on popravlyal i peresozdaval tekst proizvedeniya. Na ehtom diske predstavlena redakciya, ozaglavlennaya avtorom "Knyaz' t'my". Rannie redakcii romana - ehto unikal'naya vozmozhnost' proniknut' v tvorcheskuyu laboratoriyu velikogo alhimika slova Mihaila Bulgakova i nasladit'sya ego magiey, vnov' vernut'sya v charuyushchiy i tragichnyy mir Mastera i Margarity i, mozhet byt', luchshe ponyat' zamysel pisatelya.

Verdenskrigen er ved at være forbi. Der har været revolution i Sankt Petersborg, Kiev er besat af tyskerne, og familien Turbins medlemmer - de voksne børn, læger, officerer - forventer at vanviddet skal høre op og er mest tilbøjelige til at opfatte situationen surrealistisk; som en forbigående tilstand. Men udenfor byen ligger adskillige hære: bolsjevikkerne, nationalistlederen Petljura og hans bevæbnede ukrainske bønderkarle, et par anarkisthære og polske rytterarméer.

"Rokovye yaytsa" - radiopostanovka po odnoimennomu proizvedeniyu. Eto fantasticheskaya povest' Mihaila Bulgakova, vpervye opublikovannaya v 1925 godu. Takzhe pechatalas' v sokrashchennom vide pod nazvaniem "Luch zhizni" v tom zhe godu. Napisavshiy povest' "Rokovye yaytsa" v 1924 godu Bulgakov pomeshchaet svoih geroev v 1928 god. Ispolnyaet Gennadiy Bortnikov.

"Dni Turbinyh" - radiopostanovka MHAT SSSR im. M.Gor'kogo po odnoimennomu romanu. Ispolniteli: V. Rastsvetaev, V. Petrov, V. Kalinina, V. Davydov, M. Zimin, Yu. Puzyrev, S. Safonov, A. Borzunov, M. Medvedev.