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In 1919, he was drafted by the White Army, again as an army physician and then transferred to the Northern Caucasus.
There he became seriously ill and barely survived.
After this illness he abandoned his career as a doctor for that of a writer.
In his autobiography, Bulgakov recalls how he started writing : "Once in 1919 when I was traveling at night by train I wrote a short story.
In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story". His first plays, Self-defense and Turbin Brothers, were written in Vladikavkaz and shown there on the city stage with great success.
After short travels in Vladikavkaz, Piatigorsk, Tiflis, and Batum, Bulgakov went to Moscow in the 1921, intending "to remain here forever". It was difficult to find work in the capital, but he was fortunate - he was appointed secretary to the literary section of Glavpolitprosvet.
To make a living, he worked as a correspondent and wrote feuilletons for the newspapers Gudok, Krasnaia Panorama and the Berlin newspaper Nakanune.
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