Gosudarstvennyy Muzey M.a. Bulgakova
Memorial flat where a novelist lived, immortalized as a haunted apartment in his most famous novel.
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This guide to the Bulgakov museum in Moscow starts on a stairwell that officials kept repainting through the 1980s, only for the drawings and quotes to reappear by morning. It traces how the real flat fifty, where writer Mikhail Bulgakov lived with his wife Tatyana starting in 1921, became the model for a haunted apartment he handed to Satan and his retinue in the censored novel The Master and Margarita. Bulgakov called his neighbors, with real venom, the organized proletariat, and moved out to a quieter flat upstairs just three years later.
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