The Days of the Turbins

Days of the Turbins, The (Dni Turbinykh)

    Alternative Title: The White Guard

    Author: Mikhail Bulgakov

    First Performance: 1926, Moscow

    Published: 1955

    First English Translation: 1935

    Genre: Hist. drama in 4 acts; Russian prose

    Setting: Kiev, winter 1918–19

    Cast: 24m, 1f, extras

Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, is, before their defeat in the First World War, temporarily in the hands of the Germans, who have appointed Skoropadsky as Hetman (Commander-in-Chief). Colonel Aleksei Turbin and his younger brother Nikolai of the Russian White Guard have come to Kiev to defend the Hetman against the nationalist Cossacks in the east and against the Russian Red Army in the north. As the Germans withdraw, some of the White Guard leaders desert. Aleksei's sister Yeliena is...

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