A personal reappraisal of the first major work of the Russian writer Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков), (*1891-†1940), The White Guard, rooted in the years spent by the author of this essay in Kiev/Kyiv between 1998-2001, and confronting the original Russian text with a German translation of it. Although the novel is base…[Read more]