Zoya's Apartment

MediaBook Studio presents the audiobook “Zoya’s Apartment” by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov—the great Russian writer of the Soviet period, a classic of world literature, playwright, theater director, and actor. The author of novels, novellas, and stories; plays; film scripts; and numerous feuilletons in the 1920s. One of the best-known Russian writers. His works have been translated into almost all languages of the world. His plays, especially “Zoya’s Apartment,” “Flight,” and “The Days of the Turbins,” have been staged in many theaters worldwide for more than a decade and have been adapted for film over 40 times. The book is read by a popular actor, film actor, and well-known voice actor Igor Tarataikyn.

“Manushka. How rude you are, comrade Alliluya. Who are you talking to like that?”

“Alliluya. You, Marya, don’t fool around. We know your business very well. At the house committee, everything is right there in plain sight. The house committee’s eye never sleeps. Understood? We sleep with one eye, and we see with the other.”

“So you’re home alone?”

“Manushka. Go on, get out of here, Anisim Zotych—this isn’t proper. The mistress isn’t here, and you’ve crawled into the bedroom.”

“Alliluya. Ah, you! Who are you speaking to? Think. Do you see, I’m carrying a briefcase? That means my face is official—and inviolable. I can get in anywhere.”

“Ah, you!” (Hugs Manushka.)

“Manushka. I’ll tell your wife—she’ll tear you to pieces with your official status.”

“Alliluya. Wait—enough with the whirligig!”

Zoya (from the closet). “Alliluya, you pig!”

“Manushka. Ah!” (Runs away.)

Zoya (coming out of the closet). “Well, well, the chairman of the house committee. Very good! Very good!”

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