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Set in Ukraine from late 1918, the novel concerns the fate of the Turbin family as the various armies of the Ukrainian War of Independence (the White Army, the Red Army, the Imperial German Army and Ukrainian nationalists) fight over the city of Kiev.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- 1925
14,731 ratings587 reviews. Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an engrossing book, though completely different in tone. It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells the story of the Turbin family and the war's effect on the middle-classes (not workers).
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Mar 20, 2010 · In it Bulgakov concedes that The Days of the Turbins, and his novel The White Guard, from which the play was adapted, embody "my stubborn depiction of the Russian intelligentsia as the best social ...
Jul 6, 2006 · Synopsis. Discover Mikhail Bugakov's classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv. Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kyiv, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city.
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Beginning his adult life as a doctor, Bulgakov gave up medicine for writing. His first major work was the novel Belaya gvardiya ( The White Guard ), serialized in 1925 but never published in book form. A realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the motives and behaviour of a group of anti-Bolshevik White officers during the civil war, it was met ...
The White Guard is a cinematic retelling of the famous novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. The story takes place in the winter of 1918 in Kiev, engulfed in the flames of the Civil War. The Turbins' family (brothers Alexey, Nikolka and their sister Elena) engage in a web of military and political events alongside family drama.
Set in Ukraine, beginning in late 1918, the novel concerns the fate of the Turbin family as the various armies of the Russian Civil War – the Whites, the Reds, the Imperial German Army, and Ukrainian nationalists – fight over the city of Kyiv.
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