I recommend Bulgakov - I've read "Master and Margarita" in Russian and then in English, and I think it was translated very well. Bulgakov is a favorite writer o

I recommend Bulgakov - I've read "Master and Margarita" in Russian and then in English, and I think it was translated very well. Bulgakov is a favorite writer of many Russians, and probably is a top 5 Russian writer of the 20th century. I'd say there's a lineage: Gogol - Bulgakov - Pelevin.