Morphine. M. Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov is the main Russian mystic of the twentieth century. Medica by training and a subtle satirist by vocation, he himself saw and masterfully described the screening of eras, revolution, civil war, the complexity of the profession and the abyss of addiction. The experience of the zemstvo doctor and composed a galaxy of colorful characters with his quirks, fears and prejudices. And the story “Morphine”, stylized as a diary, is also almost autobiographical - after an unsuccessful operation, Bulgakov was forced to prick his painkillers and addicted to him.