Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov

Valentin Fedorovich Bulgakov ( Russian Валентин Фёдорович Булгаков ; born November 13 ^{. Jul} / 25. November  1886 ^greg. In Kuznetsk , † 22. September 1966 in Yasnaya Polyana ) was a Russian author.

Bulgakov (left) and Tolstoy in the summer of 1910

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Bulgakov was the private secretary of the author Lev Tolstoy in the summer of 1910 and after his death wrote the book The Last Year of Lev Tolstoy based on his notes . After the revolution in Russia, he first emigrated to Prague . In the 1930s he wrote a book about Russian emigrants. During the Second World War he was arrested by the German occupiers and imprisoned in the Wülzburg near Weißenburg in Bavaria . In 1948 he returned to the Soviet Union. Until his death he ran the museum in Yasnaya Polyana .

Bulgakov's tomb

Bulgakov's book about Tolstoy's last year formed the basis for the novel for the British-German film Ein Russischer Sommer ( The Last Station , 2009), in which the actor James McAvoy portrayed himself .

Fonts

• The last year of Leo Tolstoy , Dial Press, New York 1971.
• Leo Tolstoj and the present. Public speeches given by Valentin Bulgakov, LN Tolstoy's last secretary after the Russian Revolution in 1918-1920 , Neu-Sonnefelder Jugend Quäkersiedlung, Sonnefeld near Coburg 1927.
• Leo Tolstoy's thoughts on violence, war and revolution. From his writings, diaries and letters , War Resisters' International, Berlin 1928.
• They died for the sake of faith , Neu-Sonnefelder Jugend, Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse 1929.

Web links

• Literature by and about Valentin Fjodorowitsch Bulgakow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Valentin Bulgakow on alexanderyakovlev.org (Russian)
• Valentin Bulgakov on yasnayapolyana.ru (Russian)