Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was born in Kiev, the current capital of Ukraine, in 1891. His father, Afanasiy Ivanovich Bulgakov, was a respected academic at the Kiev Ecclesiastical Academy, and died in 1907, when Mikhail was 16. He married his first wife, Tatyana Lappa, in 1913, and graduated from Kiev University's Medical School in 1916. Once he graduated, they moved to the provinces, where Bulgakov began his practice of medicine in the villages, which he later documented in his early works...
