I tipu ake a Konstantin i Ukraine, i tetahi wahi i te tuawhenua, i tetahi wahi i Kiev. I ako ia i roto i te <unk>the First Imperial <unk>classical Gymnasium o Kiev, i reira ko ia te hoa o Mikhail Bulgakov. I a ia i te reanga 6th i mahue i tona papa te whanau, a ka akina ia ki te hoatu akoranga tūmataiti i roto i te tikanga ki te whiwhi i te ora. I te tau 1912 i tomo ia ki te wānanga o Natural History i University o Kiev. I roto i te tau 1914 i whakawhiti ia ki te wānanga o te Ture o te hononga o Moscow, engari i te World War I. i mahi ia i tona mātauranga tuatahi i roto i Moscow rite te trolleyman, i te korero i roto i te Yekaterinburg, i tona whaea i puta mai i te whanau o te hinengaro Polish.
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