Mikhail Bulgakov began his literary career after the Revolution. He was born in 1891 to a father who was a historian of religions. He became a doctor and practiced behind the front when the First World War broke out. In 1917, during the Revolution, he quickly joined the White Army, known as the “volunteer army”. He arrived in Moscow in 1921. At first, he mainly wrote articles, but after benefiting from the short period of freedom of expression (abstention from censorship between January and October 1917), he was one of the unpublished authors who acquired fame in the 1960s:it was in these years that the majority of his works were published, including the best known:The Master and Margarita .
Dog Heart , a satirical short story, was not published until 1987 because it was considered counter-revolutionary.
Mikhail Bulgakov died in 1940:he is remembered as the author dealing with the relationship of the writer to power.