It is widely known that the prototype of the main heroine of the novel "The Master and Margarita" was the last wife of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov — Elena Sergeevna. A mother of two children, she recklessly left her husband, a general, having once met Bulgakov at a party. "Love jumped out in front of us, like a murderer jumping out of the ground in an alley, and struck us both at once! So the lightning strikes, so the Finnish knife strikes!" ("The Master and Margarita"). However, both Tatiana Nikolaevna Lappa and Lyubov Evgenievna Belozerskaya, the first and second wives of the writer, played no less significant roles in the fate of the artist. On the one hand, Bulgakov's biography of a doctor and the early period of his literary work are connected, on the other - "The White Guard", "The Heart of a Dog", "The Cabal of the Saints" ("Moliere"), the first edition of "The Master and Margarita", the birth of his theatrical fame. Each of the women who shared a family hearth with the Master loved him to the end of their days.