"White Guard" - the first novel of the outstanding Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov . The novel takes place during the Ukrainian Civil War in late 1918. Bulgakov tells about the family of Russian intellectuals and their friends who are experiencing a social cataclysm of the civil war. The novel is largely autobiographical, almost all the characters have prototypes - relatives, friends and friends of the Bulgakov family. The scenery of the novel was the streets of Kiev and the house in which the Bulgakov family lived in 1918. Other well-known works of the writer are “Master and Margarita”, “Dog Heart”, “Theatrical novel”, “Notes on cuffs”, “Rock eggs”, “Notes of a young doctor”, “Deviliad”, “Running”, “Ivan Vasilievich” ..