A great admirer of Gogol, this doctor-turned-author wrote stories based on Dead Souls' protagonist Chichikov.  
A great admirer of Gogol, this doctor-turned-author wrote stories based on Dead Souls' protagonist Chichikov.  His plays include Flight, A Cabal of Hypocrites, and a work which was restaged after Stalin's intervention, The Days of the Turbins. Short stories include "The Fatal Eggs" and "The Heart of A Dog." FTP identify this author whose masterpiece is a tale of the Devil's appearance in contemporary Moscow, The Master and Margarita.
A great admirer of Gogol, this doctor-turned-author wrote stories based on Dead Souls' protagonist Chichikov.  
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov