The candleholders from the porcelain set for the ladies’ dressing table belonged to Yelena Sergeevna, Mikhail Bulgakov’s third wife. These candleholders are from the Bulgakovs’ apartment in Nashchokinsky lane. The couple moved there from Bolshaya Pirogovskaya in February 1934. Number 3 in Nashchokinsky lane (Furmanov Street in Bulgakov’s time) was called the “writer’s extension”. The housing and construction cooperative partnership “Soviet Writer” reconstructed two old mansions, uniting them, and added storeys.
Porcelain candleholders
Creation period
1879–1888
Place of сreation
the Russian Empire
Dimensions
11,5x11 cm
Technique
porcelain, paint, glaze, gold leaf; molding, glazing, painting, overglaze painting, gilding
Collection
0
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Wonderful house, I swear! There are writers living above and below, behind, and in front, as well as on the side. I pray to God that the house stands indestructible. I’m happy to be out of the damp pit on Pirogovskaya. And what a bliss not to ride the streetcar! Vikenty Vikentyevich! True, we have a chill, something is wrong in the lavatory and the tank leaks on the floor, and there will probably be some other malfunctions, but nevertheless I’m happy. As long as the house stands!
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Bulgakov lived the last years of his life in the house in Nashchokinsky lane and died in 1940. It was here that he finished work on the novel “The Master and Margarita”, which lasted more than 10 years. One of the manuscripts of the novel has a note written by Mikhail Afanasyevich,
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To finish before I die. October 30, 1934.
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In this apartment, he wrote “Notes of a Dead Man” (“Theatrical Novel”) and “Batum”, a play about young Stalin. Osip Mandelstam also lived in the “writer’s house” at the same time as Bulgakov. The poet was arrested in 1934 — the same year Mikhail Afanasyevich moved in.
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We had a small circle of friends, there were artists — Vladimir Vladimirovich Dmitriev, Pyotr Vladimirovich Williams, Boris Robertovich Erdman (the playwright’s brother). There was a Bolshoi Theater conductor Melik-Pashaev and there was the director of the Bolshoi Theater Yakov Leontievich Leontiev, all of them with their families, of course, with their wives. And my sister Olga Sergeevna Bokshanskaya, the secretary of the Art Theater, came with her husband Kaluzhsky, several actors of the Art Theater: Konsky, Yanshin, Raevsky, Pilyavskaya. It was a small circle for a man like Mikhail Afanasyevich, but they gathered with us almost every day…
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Porcelain candleholders
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Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
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Porcelain candleholders
Creation period
1879–1888
Place of сreation
the Russian Empire
Dimensions
11,5x11 cm
Technique
porcelain, paint, glaze, gold leaf; molding, glazing, painting, overglaze painting, gilding
Collection
0
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