Morphine

This collection includes works by Bulgakov that have an autobiographical character – a witty, ironic story «Notes on Cuffs», dedicated to wanderings in the post-revolutionary Caucasus, complex relationships with the «red» authorities and fellow writers, dreams of emigration and first experiences in literature, and the stunning «Notes of a Young Doctor» – almost documentary essays by Bulgakov about the holy and terrifying fate of a servant of Hippocrates in the impoverished, almost medieval Russian province of the early 1920s. The book also includes «Morphine» – a frighteningly candid, painful confession that served as the basis for the eponymous film by Alexei Balabanov.