The White Guard Av Mikhail Bulgakov

<p><b>Discover Mikhail Bugakov''s classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv.</b><br><br>Drawing closely on Bulgakov''s personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, <i>The White Guard</i> takes place in Kyiv, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family, as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime.<br><br>Bulgakov''s first novel, <i>The White Guard</i> is one of the greatest works of twentieth century Russian literature. As epic a chronicle of life and death in the Russian Empire as <i>War and Peace</i>.<br><br><b>''The tumultuous atmosphere of the Ukrainian revolution and civil war is brilliantly evoked'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>