Secrets of Bulgakov: Deciphered White Guard

DECODING THECRYPTIC WRITING OF BULGAKOV'S FIRST NOVEL! «Great was the year and terrible was the year in the year of our Lord 1918, from the beginning of the second revolution…» — the opening lines of «The White Guard» mesmerize no less than the legendary «In a white cloak with a bloody underlay, shuffling with a cavalry gait…», and the text of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov's debut novel is as full of mysteries and enigmas as the genius «Master and Margarita». The book by a well-known specialist on the work of M.A. Bulgakov, Doctor of Philological Sciences B.V. Sokolov, decodes the cryptography, subtexts, and secret codes of «The White Guard», restoring the true biography of the great writer, the history and hidden meanings of his first masterpiece, which became the best artistic work about the tragedy of the Russian intelligentsia in the fire of the Civil War and was included in the school curriculum.