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White Guard – Mikhail Bulgakov – Speech – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-9268-5156-1

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Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The White Guard" takes place in snow-covered Kyiv in 1918. In the city, where the Hetman's troops, Petliurites, and the Bolsheviks clash, house number 13 on Alekseevsky Descent continues to live its life. The stove is still lit, the lamp is lit, and people sit down to dinner. Turbines cling to things they can still control: a clean tablecloth, hot tea, the steady ticking of the clock in the dining room. This isn't an escape from reality, but a way to hold on to it.
"The White Guard" is a poignant and honest chronicle of the civil war, in which the epic sweep of history gives way to the tragedy of one family. It is precisely this logic of the novel that informs Andrei Nikolaev's illustrations, showing how historical catastrophe plays out through the lives of people. The reader experiences the events alongside the characters—in the panic of street gunfire and in the silence of the Turbines' house.
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