written by Balabanov's friend and regular collaborator Sergei Bodrov, Jr. before his tragic death in 2002. The White Guard (2012) — Russian TV mini-series produced by Russia-1. The film was shot in Saint Petersburg and Kyiv and released to mostly negative reviews. In 2014 the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture banned the distribution of the film, claiming that it shows "contempt for the Ukrainian language, people and state". A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012—2013) — British mini-series produced by BBC, with Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe playing main parts. Unlike the Morphine film by Aleksei Balabanov that mixed drama and thriller, this version of A Country Doctor's Notebook was made as a black comedy. Medical eponym After graduating from the Medical School in 1909, he spent the early days of his career as a venereologist, rather than pursuing his goal of being a pediatrician, as syphilis was highly prevalent during those times. It was during those early years that he described the symptoms and characteristics of syphilis affecting the bones. He described the abnormal and concomitant change of the outline of the crests of the shin-bones with a pathological worm-eaten like appearance and creation of abnormal osteophytes in the bones of those suffering from later stages of syphilis. This became known as "Bulgakov's Sign" and is commonly used in the former Soviet states, but is known as the "Bandy Legs Sign" in the west. Bibliography Novels The White Guard (1925/1975) The Master and Margarita (1940/1967) Theatrical Novel (1936/1967, aka Black Snow) Novellas and short stories Notes on the Cuffs (1923) Diaboliad (1924) The Fatal Eggs (1925) A Young Doctor's Notebook (1926/1963) Heart of a Dog (1925/1968) "Morphine" (1927) "The Murderer" (1928) Great Soviet Short Stories (1962) The Terrible News: Russian Stories from the Years Following the Revolution (1990) Diaboliad and Other Stories (1990) Notes on the Cuff & Other Stories (1991) The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire, 1918–1963 (1993) Theatre The Days of the Turbins (1926) Flight (1927) The Cabal of Hypocrites (1929) Ivan Vasilievich (1936) Biography Life of M. de Molière, 1962 Footnotes References Voronina, Olga G., Depicting the Divine: Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann, Studies In Comparative Literature, 47 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2019). Townsend, Dorian Aleksandra, From Upyr' to Vampire: The Slavic Vampire Myth in Russian Literature, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of German and Russian Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, May 2011. Sources Biographies