'The Red Crown'' - is a fascinating short story by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). The insane man tells the story, because of which he went out of his mind and got into the clinic. Everything started from the moment his old mother started begging him to find and return home his younger brother Kolia, who went to the war. Available online @ The Short Story Project