This author created a character who hoards money in his apartment walls and is known by the feminine form of his actual name, Vasily.
This author created a character who hoards money in his apartment walls and is known by the feminine form of his actual name, Vasily. In a novel by this author, the prisoner released from cell no. 666 turns out to be the revolutionary leader Petlyura. Another of this author's characters suffers from continual headaches and counts among his subordinates the secret policeman Aphranius and the centurion Mark the (*) Rat-Killer. This man's novel about the Kievan family of Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka was adapted into the hit play The Days of the Turbins. A poet whose alias means "homeless" is sent to a lunatic asylum where he meets the author of a book about Yeshua ha-Notsri in a novel by this author in which Moscow is terrorized by the retinue of Professor Woland, who is Satan in disguise. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The White Guard and The Master and Margarita.
This author created a character who hoards money in his apartment walls and is known by the feminine form of his actual name, Vasily.
Mikhail Bulgakov [or Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov]