Events announced for Bulgakov 125-year anniversary

Moscow’s Department of Culture has announced some of the events set to take place in honour of the 125th anniversary of novelist Mikhail Bulgakov’s birth.

Among the more than 100 events due to be held, the Bulgakov memorial apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya street will host the Manuscripts Don’t Burn exhibition. The building, which previously housed Engineering Services for the Khamovniki district and has recently been given to the Bulgakov Museum, was the author’s residence for seven years, during which he wrote the plays Flight and The Cabal of Hypocrites. Here visitors will be able to see preserved pages from the first edition of The Master and Margarita. The exhibition will run only from 13—16 May, after which the apartment will be closed for renovation and the construction of a permanent exhibition.

From 14 May—11 June the Bulgakov Festival will take place at Patriarch’s Ponds, beginning with the “Bulgakov and the Bolshoi Theatre” gala concert. Performers from the Bolshoi will present Polka from the opera libretto Rachel, composed by Bulgakov while he worked as literary consultant to the Bolshoi Theatre.

According to earlier reports, exhibitions will also take place at the Moscow Historical Museum and the New Manege.

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 — 1940) is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which is considered by many critics to be one of the best novels of the 20th century.

Source: Afisha (in Russian)