White Guard. Bulgakov M.A.

The White Guard is an autobiographical novel and at the same time an exciting narrative about the fate of the intelligentsia in Russia after the 1918 revolution, a novel about a social catastrophe, the violence of one layer of the population over all the others, about the random retreat of the troops of Petlyura under the onslaught of the Reds. The disappearance of a whole way of life that will never be.

"... These were the legendary times, those times when a non -celebrated young generation lived in the gardens of the most beautiful city of our Motherland. It was then that in the hearts of this generation, the confidence was born that all life will pass in white, quietly, calmly: dawns, sunsets, Dnieper, Khreshchatyk, sunny streets in the summer, and in winter-not cold, not hard-large, affectionate snow...

... And it turned out quite the opposite.

The legendary times broke off, and suddenly a story came. ”

m. Bulgakov