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Mikhail Bulgakov: A Country Doctor's Notebook [2010] paperback ZGRDN he counts many of theTRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty five year old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916 17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice on the eve of Revolution is described in