"White Guard" - the first novel of the outstanding Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. The events of the novel take place during the Civil War in Ukraine at the end of 1918. Bulgakov talks about the family of Russian intellectuals and their friends who are experiencing the social cataclysm of the civil war. The novel is largely autobiographical, almost all characters have prototypes - relatives, friends and acquaintances of the Bulgakov family. The decorations of the novel were the streets of Kiev and the house in which the Bulgakov family lived in 1918. Other famous works of the writer are The Master and Margarita, The Dog Heart, The Theatrical Novel, Notes on Cuffs, Fatal Eggs, Notes of a Young Doctor, Devil's, .
