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  Mikhail Bulgakov was born on 15 May 1891 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire
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  In 1901 Bulgakov joined the First Kiev Gymnasium, where he developed an interest in Russian and European literature
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  In 1913, Bulgakov married Tatiana Lappa.
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  Mikhail Bulgakov died from nephrosclerosis on 10 March 1940.
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  The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита), which Bulgakov began writing in 1928 and which was finally published by his widow in 1966.
