The Days of the Turbins

The Days of the Turbins is a four-act play by Mikhail Bulgakov based upon his novel The White Guard. It was written in 1925 and premiered on 5 October 1926 in Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky. In April 1929 the MAT production was cancelled as a result of severe criticism in the Soviet press. On 16 February 1932, resulting from the direct interference of Joseph Stalin, it w...