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The White Guard

Mikhail Bulgakov

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1925
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 320

"Great and terrible was the year of Our Lord 1918, of the Revolution the second." So the novel begins, and then it turns away from the armies and goes indoors. In the City, which is Kyiv in all but name, the Turbins have just buried their mother.

Great and terrible was the year of Our Lord 1918, of the Revolution the second.
The White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov

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