page_title: The Days of the Turbins
section_title: Major characters
hierarchical_section_title: The Days of the Turbins / Major characters
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of a prominent Ukrainian military, fighter for independence of Ukraine, colonel Petro Bolbochan. Українська: Петро Федорович Болбочан, український військовий діяч, полковник Армії УНР.
context_page_description: The Days of the Turbins is a four-act play by Mikhail Bulgakov based upon his novel The White Guard.
  It was written in 1925 and premiered on 5 October 1926 in Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky. In April 1929 the MAT production was cancelled as a result of severe criticism in the Soviet press. On 16 February 1932, resulting from the direct interference of Joseph Stalin, it was re-started and continued until June 1941, to considerable public acclaim. It ran for 987 performances in the course of these ten years.
  There are three versions of the play's text. The first was written in July-September 1925. The title The Days of the Turbins was also used for the novel itself, the latter's Paris edition was titled The Days of the Turbins. The play's second version was translated into German and first came out in Munich in 1934. The third version of the text was published in Moscow in 1955, supervised personally by Elena Sergeyevna Bulgakova.
context_section_description: Alexey Vasilyevich Turbin, the artillery colonel, 30
  Nikolai Turbin, his brother, 18
  Elena Vasilyena Talberg, their sister, 24
  Vladimir Robertovich Talberg, the White Army HQ colonel, her husband, 38
  Viktor Viktorovich Myshlayevsky, artillery captain, 38
  Leonid Yuryevich Shervinsky, poruchik, Hetman's adjutant,
  Alexander Bronislavovich Studzinsky, captain, 29
  Lariosik, Alexey's cousin from Zhytomyr, 21
  Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Hetman of Ukraine
  Bolbotun, Symon Petliura's First Cavalry Division commander
  Galanba, Uragan, Kirpaty, the Petliura's army's soldiers
  Von Schratt, German general, Von Doust, German army major.
caption: The real life Bolbotun, Pyotr Bolbochan
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