The presentation explores the history of several Armenian families who lived in a Moscow apartment building constructed in 1904 and known above all as Mikhail Bulgakov’s first Moscow address and as the residence of Woland in The Master and Margarita. Yet the history of the building extends far beyond the writer’s biography and fictional world.

The aim of the presentation is not so much to recount the biographies of these families—although this is unavoidable—as to explore the possibilities and limitations of microhistorical anthropology as an interdisciplinary approach. The sources include interviews with descendants, documents and photographs from private archives, materials from state archives, previously unknown ego-texts, as well as published fiction and documentary literature.

Lecturer: Dmitriy Oparin

🗓️ September 11, 2026
🕧 6:00 PM
📍 3 Aram Khachatryan St., Yerevan + Online

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