M.Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was born on May 3 (15), 1891 (according to the diary [6]

 In 1909, Mikhail Bulgakov graduated from the First Kiev Gymnasium and entered the medical faculty of Kiev University.  The choice of the medical profession was explained by the fact that the mother’s brothers, Nikolai and Mikhail Pokrovsk, were doctors, one in Moscow, the other in Warsaw, and both earned good money.  Mikhail is a therapist, was a doctor of Patriarch Tikhon, Nikolai, a gynecologist, had an excellent practice in Moscow.  Bulgakov studied at the university for 7 years - having an exemption for health reasons (renal failure), filed a report for serving as a doctor in the navy and, after refusing the medical commission, asked him to send him a Red Cross volunteer to the hospital.  On October 31, 1916, he received a diploma confirming "to the degree of a doctor with distinction with all the rights and advantages, the laws of the Russian Empire assigned this degree" [9].