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Mikhail Bulgakov

1891 - 1940

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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( buul-GAH-kof; Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf]; 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins. Some of his works (Flight, all his works between 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them that they "glorified emigration and White generals". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Bulgakov is the 183rd most popular writer (up from 230th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 20th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Mikhail Bulgakov is most famous for his novel, The Master and Margarita.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 183 out of 7,302. Before him are John Milton, Charlotte Brontë, Nizami Ganjavi, Stéphane Mallarmé, Fernando Pessoa, and Al-Masudi. After him are Catullus, Taras Shevchenko, Murasaki Shikibu, Lope de Vega, John Steinbeck, and Adam Mickiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 6. Before him are Karl Dönitz, Erwin Rommel, Antonio Gramsci, Sergei Prokofiev, and B. R. Ambedkar. After him are Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, James Chadwick, Walter Model, Edith Stein, and Pär Lagerkvist. Among people deceased in 1940, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 8. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. J. Thomson, Selma Lagerlöf, Paul Klee, Neville Chamberlain, and Walter Benjamin. After him are Arthur Harden, Nikolai Yezhov, Robert Wadlow, Carl Bosch, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, and Verner von Heidenstam.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 15 out of 1,365. Before him are John III Sobieski (1629), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Kazimir Malevich (1879), and Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595). After him are Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Joseph Conrad (1857), Helena Blavatsky (1831), and Svetlana Alexievich (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 2. Before him are Nikolai Gogol (1809). After him are Taras Shevchenko (1814), Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Isaac Babel (1894).

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