Abstract
A collection of short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov presents the famous Russian writer primarily as a humorist and a satirist. Most of the selected texts reflect on taboo issues of Soviet society of the 1920s when most of the stories first appeared in print.
The book is supplied with Bulgakov's letter to the USSR government as of March 28, 1930, which illustrates the context of the author's lifetime and work. Although it is an essential document of the Soviet period, it has been translated and published in Czech for the first time.