In the midst of the war in Ukraine, the sheet invited actor Alexandre Borges to read excerpts from two scenes from the play “Os Dias dos Turbin”, by Mikhail Bulgákov (1891-1940).
In 1918, months after the Russian Revolution, Germany supports an independent Ukraine led by Skoropadsky, who declares himself a Hetman, the historic title of the head of the Cossacks.
With the German defeat in World War I, the Ukrainian nationalist Petliura rebels against the Hetman. In Moscow, the Bolsheviks are preparing to advance against both.
It is against this backdrop that the play by Bulgakov, also author of the novel “The Master and Marguerite”, takes place. Born and educated in Kiev, he was drafted as a military doctor in the conflict against the Bolsheviks.
“The Turbin Days” premiered in 1926 at the Moscow Art Theater. Criticized in the Soviet press, it was removed from the poster for three years, but it returned and, until 1941, it had 987 performances.
The play shows the impact of the civil war on Colonel Aleksei Turbin and his brothers. He is assigned to command a division of the Hetman against Petliura, but would actually like to face the Bolsheviks.
The recording took place at the Teatro de Arte Israelita Brasileiro (Taib), at Casa do Povo, in Bom Retiro, São Paulo, on March 19.
