![]() MICHAEL GLENNY (1927-1990) was at one point a British army officer, an intelligence agent in Wester Berlin, and a traveling salesman for Wedgwood china, which first took him to the Soviet Union. ![]() His masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, would not be published until twenty-six years after his death. He died at the age of forty-nine from a kidney disorder. Though Bulgakov’s work was often censored, Stalin showed his personal favor by protecting him from imprisonment and finding a job for him at the Moscow Art Theatre, where the writer would work as a director and playwright for many years. He went on to write some of the greatest novels in twentieth-century Russian literature, including White Guard and Black Snow. ![]() Schooled as a doctor, he gave up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to writing. MIKHAIL BULGAKOV (1891-1940) was born in Kiev. ![]()
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