Shifting Accommodation *is a short humorous story by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940).
From the Diary of an ingenious comrade Polosukhin:
November 21.
Well, Moscow... What a city... Oh, I will tell*
you now. There are no available apartments here.*
Absolutely no vacant flats! I even had to send a*
telegram to my wife and tell her to stay home and wait*
for a while. I slept three nights in the bathtub at*
Karabuev's apartment. Well, what can I say, not that*
bad as it may seem, pretty comfortable, I would say,*
just water dripping from time to time. Then I slept two*
nights on a gas stove at Shchuevsky's apartment. In*
Yelabuga, my hometown, people say that this stove is a*
very convenient thing. Hell no, I say! Some screws are*
sticking in here and there, and the cookmaid is*
grumbling, obviously not happy about my sleeping*
there...
December 23.
I'm done, I'm going back to Yelabuga...
