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He went on to write some of the greatest novels in twentiethcentury russian literature, including white guard and black snow. Stalin was an avid fan of a play based on the white guard and allegedly went to see it more than fifteen times. Black snow displays both the autobiographical and the satirical components in bulgakovs work. The white guard download pdfepub ebook gets free book. Ivan vasilievich is portrayed as a great actor, but his famous acting method involves. Mikhail bulgakov was born in 1891 in kiev, in presentday ukraine. Abstract black snow, an orchestral work composed by michael smetanin in 1987, was named after the book black snow by mikhael bulgakov.
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