The White Guard (Russian: Белая гвардия) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, first published in 1925 in the literary journal Rossiya.
After the first two parts of The White Guard had been published in Rossiya, Bulgakov was invited to write a version for the stage.
Historical figures such as Pyotr Wrangel, Symon Petliura and Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky appear as the Turbin family is caught up in the turbulent effects of the October Revolution.
Bulgakov's widow had The White Guard published in large part in the literary journal Moskva in 1966, at the end of the Khrushchev era.
In 2008, Yale University Press published a translation by Marian Schwartz of the complete novel, an edition that won an award.