![]() ![]() In 1938, he completed The Master and Margarita. Stalin telephoned him personally and offered him a job at the Moscow Arts Theatre. By 1930 Bulgakov had become so frustrated by the suppression of his work that he wrote to Stalin begging to be allowed to emigrate if he was not given the opportunity to make his living as a writer in the USSR. In 1925 he completed The Heart of a Dog, which remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987. He trained as a doctor but gave up practising medicine in 1920 to devote his life to writing. Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev on 15th May 1891. The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (Translated by Michael Glenny) ![]()
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