Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov is a talented writer and playwright of the XX century. His works are full of hoaxes, sarcastic, satirical language fully conveys the writer's attitude to power. It is not surprising that during a search in 1926, notebooks with diary entries with the eloquent title "Under the heel" were seized from his apartment.Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova, the writer's third wife, the prototype of Margarita in the famous novel, became a chronicler of her husband's life and work. From 1933 until the death of the Master, at his insistence and often under dictation, she kept records of Bulgakov's daily life, work and tragic fate. On the pages of this book, the reader will find fragments of Bulgakov's diaries and letters, discover new chapters in the biography of the great writer.Before the reader is a chronicle of the life of a classic of literature of the twentieth century, who gave the world the novels "The Master and Margarita", "The Heart of a Dog", the plays "Days of the Turbins", "Crimson Island" and others. A life that in itself is worthy of becoming the subject of a literary work.The book will be interesting to fans of the writer and fans of memoir prose.