The Lamp with the Green Shade
Mikhail Bulgakov and His Father
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3952806 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edythe C Haber (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 333 |
| Publication date | 1985-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/129789 |
| OpenAlex | W2320898966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Mikhail Bulgakov was sixteen years old in 1907 when his father, Afanasii Ivanovich Bulgakov, a professor at the Kiev Ecclesiastical Academy, died shortly before his forty-eighth birthday. This was the first major loss in a life that was to see many crippling setbacks: the dispersion and dwindling of his beloved family through exile and death; two marriages that ended in divorce (followed, to be sure, by a third that was apparently close to ideal); a writing career in which early mercurial success was quickly followed by persecution and virtual oblivion; and, finally, death by the same kidney ailment that had struck his father, and at approximately the same age.1 While the deaths of the two Bulgakovs were strikingly similar, Afanasii Ivanovich's life, marked by domestic joys and steady professional advancement, could not have differed more from his son's.2 Born in 1859 into the family of a poor village priest from the Orel province, he rose to a respected position in the academic world. After studying at church schools and the seminary in Orel, he earned his candidate, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Kiev Academy, where he was invited in 1887 to teach Ancient Secular History. Two years later he was transferred to a chair closer to his field of scholarly expertise, the History and Analysis of Western Creeds, a position he was to occupy, with successive promotions, until his death
Ancient history · Art history · Aunt · Brother · Ideal (ethics) · Ivanovich · Persecution · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2015 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |