An AFP report: A museum in Moscow dedicated to Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov has been largely destroyed. The author has been condemned by the Orthodox church for his authorship of The Master and Margarita 'the fifth gospel, that of Satan,' which was not published until 26 years after Bulgakov's death in 1940.The book is a work of fantasy and satire in which the devil comes to Communist-era Moscow to see if he can do some good.
According to sources, Alexander Morozov, a bitter critic of Bulgakov's work, which he condemned as Satanic, locked himself in the museum and "...threw many objects out of the window, including valuable illustrations of Bulgakov's works ..."
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