On the advice of a friend, I’ve started another step in my meandering through the Russian classics. In particular, I have started to read Mikahil Bulgakov‘s The Master and Margarita.
I picked up the 2007 Penguin Classics version (ISBN978-0-140-45546-5) from the ever-fantastic Foyles (I swear, Foyles alone is reason enough to live in London). It has a helpful cronology of major events in Russian history from the Russo-Turkish war (1871-8) to Nazi Germany’s invasion of the U.S.S.R. (1941), and a series of notes on obscure references throughout the text.
I’m only two chapters in, so far, but it already seems fantastic.