Shifting Accommodation

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…