A Young Doctor's Notebook (TV series)
A Young Doctor's Notebook is a British dark comedy television programme based on the short story collection of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov. Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe portray the show's main characters. The first series was broadcast between 6 December and 27 December 2012 on Sky Arts 1, and a second series aired from 21 November to 12 December 2013. The first series takes place in the year 1917 during the Russian Revolution, and the second series takes place in the following year during the Russian Civil War.
Series one DVD cover, featuring Hamm (left) and Radcliffe (right)
Mikhail Bulgakov (pictured in the 1910s) wrote the short story collection A Young Doctor's Notebook, drawing upon his own experiences as a newly graduated doctor in 1916–1918, practicing in a small village hospital in Smolensk Governorate and his addiction to morphine and subsequent rehabilitation.
Image: Jon Hamm at Paley Fest 2014
Image: Daniel Radcliffe SDCC 2014
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
Bulgakov in 1928
Bulgakov House in Moscow. Bulgakov's novel Master and Margarita was written here.
Bulgakov in the 1910s
Gravestone of Mikhail Bulgakov and Yelena Bulgakova
