Forty Forties

'Forty Forties' is a story by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theater figure Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891–1940). A poor Muscovite feels like a stranger in his hometown. The bourgeoisie look at him disdainfully as a proletarian, but the proletariat does not recognize him as one of their own. He sadly observes the new Bolshevik order, but still continues to love Moscow with its churches, which have not yet been destroyed... Other famous works of Mikhail Bulgakov are 'The Cup of Life', 'Chanson d'Ethe', 'The Steel Windpipe', 'The Days of the Turbins', 'Zoyka's Apartment', 'Lord Curzon's Benefit Performance', 'Red Stone Moscow', 'The Cabal of the Saint', 'I Killed', 'The Adventures of Chichikov'. Many of Mikhail Bulgakov's works were prohibited by Soviet censorship, and this very fact characterizes him as a free-thinking person. His talent is admired by readers all over the world, his works have been translated into different languages and films have been made based on many of them.