Read by Nikolai Fedortsov. Duration: 8 hours. School Library is pleased to present "The White Guard" by celebrated Russian writer Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov. Published in 1924, it took 5 years to write. Russia witnessed many changes during these 5 years, and Bulgakov felt that it was necessary to record the reasons the revolutionary forces defeated the White Guard. "The White Guard" is not only a novel, but a chronicle of those times. The fate of a harassed noble family takes on epic qualities under the pen of a master of Russian literature, and shows the tragedies which befell the Russian intelligentsia, the echoes of which are still reverbating today...
