The White Guard
By: Mikhail Bulgakov ; a version by Andrew Upton
Contributors: Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Drama; History
Other titles: White Guard.
Description: In Kiev during the Russian Civil War, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close-knit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena. As her brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodka, keeling over, declaiming, taking baths, playing guitar and falling in love. But the new regime is poised and in its brutal triumph lies destruction for the Turbins and their world.