BULGAKOV HOUSE
The Mikhail Bulgakov Foundation was established
was founded on the 26th of March, 2007, by the in 1990 as an institution which served the purpose
Government of Moscow in apartment number 50 of making apartment
in house nember 10 on Bolshaya Sadovaya street. visitors. Now the famous
№ 50 accessible to the
« Odd Flat » is a museum
where one can immerse in the environment of
Thus the writer’s first address – Bolshaya sadovaya
street, 10, apartment
that period of the writer’s life in Moscow.
№ 50 — became the first and
only Memorial Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov in Despite everything we succeed in preserving the
Moscow. In autumn of 1921 a young writer with his special atmosphere of this place which became
first wife Tatiana Lappa made his first home in a cross-point of three different epochs of Russian
Moscow in a small room of a huge communal history: pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet era
apartment. Here he wrote his first literary works and the Post-Soviet reality.
nightly. And alhough he moved to another flat in
summer of 1924 the very image of the weird It is Bulgakov’s creative work that makes it
communal flat haunted Bulgakov and his works for possible to find out what unites these three
«
» « Moonshine Lake » , «№ 13
house-Elpit Rabkommuna » , « Zoyka’s apartment »
and finally, « The Master and Margarita » , the novel
many years ( Psalm ,
which immortalized the house and its inhabitants).
epochs and Mikhail Bulgakov Museum hopes to
continue this search.
The first in Russia Mikhail Bulgakov State Museum