Kolm Mihhail Bulgakovi pööraselt fantastilist lugu, milles reaalne ja ebareaalne, nukker ja naljakas põimuvad vaimustavalt jabural moel ning inimese ja kogu maailma absurdsus joonistub välja selgemini, kui ehk oodatagi oskaks. “Saatuslikud munad” ja “Saatanlik lugu” ilmusid 1925. aastal raamatus “Diaboliaad”, samal aastal valminud “Koera süda” aga põhjustas väikese tormi võimuringkondades juba enne selle ilmumist ning seetõttu selle väljaandmine viibis.
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins. He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
Some of his works (Flight, all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them that they "glorified emigration and White generals". On the other hand, Stalin loved The Days of the Turbins (also called The Turbin Brothers) very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.