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The Bulgakov House (Russian: Музей-театр «Булгаковский дом») is situated on the ground floor of Bolshaya Sadovaya ulitsa no. 10 in Moscow, in the building where the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov used to live, and in which some major scenes of his novel ''The Master and Margarita'' are set . The museum was established as a private initiative on May 15, 2004. In the same building, in apartment number 50 on the fourth floor, is a second museum that keeps alive the memory of Bulgakov, the M.A. Bulgakov Museum (Russian: Музей М. А. Булгаков). This second museum is a government initiative and was founded on March 26, 2007. There is a rivalry between the two museums, mainly maintained by the later-established official M.A. Bulgakov Museum which, with no sense of irony, invariably presents itself as "the first and only Memorial Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov in Moscow". Many other locations playing a role in the novel ''The Master and Margarita'' are situated in the neighborhood of the ''Bulgakov House'', like the Patriarch's Ponds, the ''Variety Theatre'', and the ''Griboedov'' writers' house. The Bulgakov House open every day from 13:00 to 23:00 hours, and on Fridays and Saturdays until 01:00. Entrance is free. == The building == The building was originally intended for luxury rental apartments and was built between 1902 and 1905 by order of the Russian millionaire Ilya Pigit, owner of the tobacco company ''Ducat''. The building was erected in the so-called Russian Art Nouveau style at a time when Moscow came into full bloom and many new avenues, lined with trees, were constructed. The Bolshaya Sadovaya ulitsa or ''Big Garden street'' was one of those avenues, and was part of the ''Garden Ring'' around the center of Moscow. In June 1917, just before the October Revolution, Ilya Pigit sold the building to a private real estate company. It was a good move, because after the revolution, the new Soviet regime claimed the house to transform it into one of the first communal apartments buildings in Moscow. In 1938, the building lost much of its original charm as the front fence was removed to make way for a broadening of the street. In September 1921, the Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov settled in apartment number 50 on the fourth floor with his first wife Tatyana Nikolaevna Lappa. Bulgakov, who was a fierce opponent of the Soviet regime, described his aversion to the communal apartments, and especially the apartment number 50 Bolshaya Sadovaya ulitsa 10 as follows: Bulgakov used this building as one of the most important locations in his renowned novel The Master and Margarita, in which he described it as ''The Evil Apartment'' (Diana Burgin/Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) or ''The Haunted Flat'' (Michael Glenny). In ''The Master and Margarita'', Bulgakov didn't situate the building at number 10, using instead the number 302-bis, to denounce the complexity of the Soviet administration in his time. In the summer of 1924, Bulgakov managed things in such way that he could move to the fifth floor, to the much quieter apartment number 34, of which he also used some characteristics in his description of apartment number 50 in the novel. His wife Tatyana Lappa would later realize that Bulgakov had arranged the move to make sure that she would not be left alone in an unpleasant environment, as a few months later, Bulgakov himself left the building to move in with Lyubov Evgenyeva Belozerskaya, whom he would marry in April 1925. Once there was a café in the basement of this building, named ''Pegasus' Stables'', in which the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin met his later wife, the American dancer Isadora Duncan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bulgakov House (Moscow)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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