The white guard

The novel "the White guard" is a story about the "shadowy darkness" that has fallen on his native land, this is the story of the civil war, a fratricidal terrible time, the history of the collapse of traditions, the history of bloodshed, told through the eyes of an eyewitness and participant of the events. Work on the novel "the White guard" the writer began in 1922 and in March 1923 in the journal "Russia" has reported that Mikhail Bulgakov finished the novel. "The white guard" - the first big thing Bulgakov, and the attitude with which Bulgakov was a part of Russian literature, influenced all his future work. In this first of Bulgakov "great prose" are based on his latest, "twilight novel" "the Master and Margarita".