The Throat of Steel

'The Throat of Steel'' - is an absorbing short story by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). A three years old girl with the extensive stage of diphtheria is brought to the village doctor. Her mother has been setting aside the visit to the doctor for five days until the moment the baby started suffocating. She needs an emergenc...