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…