I killed (Bulgakov)

Mikhail Bulgakov around 1935

I killed ( Russian Я убил , Ja ubil ) is an autobiographical short story by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov , which appeared in 1926 in numbers 44 and 45 of the Moscow magazine Medizinski rabotnik . The author was hired as a military doctor in Petljura's armed forces in February 1919 . During a related military deployment, he was able to evade the service obligation; He hid behind a Dnepr brückenpfeiler.

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Frame narration

On February 1, 1926, the surgeon Dr. Yashvin the Moscow colleagues, as he - to the day seven years ago - in his native Kiev to Petljura -Oberst Lestschenko shot. The latter had hunted Jews and Bolsheviks before Petlyura was expelled from Kiev . Dr. Yaschwin was to be forcibly recruited as a military doctor and later judged as a Bolshevik sympathizer.

Internal narration

When Dr. Yaschwin can't stand Colonel Lestschenko beating a defenseless woman, but manages to escape after killing the cavalry regiment commander Lestschenko.

German-language editions

Output used:

• I killed. In: Ralf Schröder (Hrsg.): Michail Bulgakow: Gesammelte Werke. Volume 7.1: I killed. Stories and feature sections. Translated from the Russian by Thomas Reschke . Volk & Welt, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-353-00946-9 , pp. 114–128.

Web links

• The text
  • Wikisource: Я убил (Булгаков) (Russian)
  • online at Lib.ru (Russian)
• Reference to first appearance in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)
• Notes in the Bulgakov encyclopedia bulgakov.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Medizinski rabotnik - about employees in the health service
2. ↑ russ. I killed - real events