Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov
Literary and Memorial Museum of M. Bulgakov, House of Turbins
Ukraine, Kyiv
The museum of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of the famous novel The Master and Margarita, is located in the house where the writer’s family first lived, later he rented a room here with his first wife Tatyana, and then practiced as a doctor in an office with an odious sign “Venereal Diseases” and syphilis."
The Bulgakov Museum, dedicated to the Kiev period of the life of the great writer, was opened in 1993. It was in Kyiv that Bulgakov was born, brought up, studied, married for the first time, and worked as a doctor. Kyiv played a significant role in shaping his personality, which is confirmed by the repeated mention of the city in the writer's works.
The museum exposition "House of the Turbins" is located on the second floor of the building, in an apartment of 7 rooms - it combines the real life of the Bulgakov family and the life of the heroes of his novel "The White Guard" Turbins. Things that belonged to the Bulgakov family are presented in the exposition in their natural form, while the items of the Turbin family, that is, those described in the novel, are surreal things - everything is presented in white. White is both the color of the snow that “covered” the whole novel, and the color of the medical gown, it is memories, nostalgia, fog, where visions, dreams, fears are born.
A small hallway of the museum-apartment leads to a labyrinth of rooms: the main living room with a piano, on which the score of Faust is revealed; a medical office where Dr. Bulgakov practiced, as well as his hero Dr. Turbin; the room of the heroine of the novel Elena, where the writer's sister Varya lived with her husband; the room of Mikhail Bulgakov himself and the hero of the novel Nikolka, the entrance to which is a closet with a sign of apartment N50 from the novel The Master and Margarita; The "book" room from the novel, in which three Cousins of the Bulgakov family lived in real life; and, finally, the "fifth dimension" - a room that can be seen from the dining room through a mirror - Alexei died in this room, and in real life - Bulgakov's father.
The museum's collection contains about 2,500 items, of which about 500 are Bulgakov's memorials.