For more than a hundred years, the works of Mikhail Bulgakov have not only been present in the literary, historical and cultural life of the country, they continue to cause heated debate around the world. Violetta Gudkova's book is an attempt to trace the history of Bulgakov's texts in Russia from the early stage of his creative career to the first decades of the 21st century. The author brings together the most diverse interpretations of M. Bulgakov's work, analyzing how literary and theater critics' assessments of his works changed during the time under review, what contemporaries wrote about the author of "The Master and Margarita" in letters and diaries, what were the directorial tasks in staging Bulgakov's plays and the audience's reaction to them, that the author's texts do not include it suited censorship. The book ends with three general chapters, which reconstruct the sequence of publications of the writer's legacy, the significant transformations of his image that took place in the 1970s and 2000s, and a number of reflections on Bulgakov's poetics. Violetta Gudkova is a theater historian, literary critic, textual critic, leading researcher at the theater department of the State Institute of Art Studies, author of the books "Yuri Olesha and Vs. Meyerhold is working on the play "The List of Benefits", "Forgotten Plays", "The Theater Section of the GAKHN" and "The Birth of Soviet Plots". Read more…