The novel "The Master and Margarita" became the most difficult work of the writer. The author began writing the book in the late 1920s, but did not have time to complete it - the writer's widow finished editing the novel after his death. A multilevel and multifaceted novel about the devil and his retinue, who honored Moscow in the 1930s with their presence, about the procurator of Judea, the horseman Pontius Pilate and the impoverished philosopher Yeshua Ha-Nozri, about the talented and unfortunate Master and his beautiful and faithful beloved Margarita.'Theatrical Novel' is a fascinating, sometimes funny, sometimes sad and tragic story about the everyday life and backstage life of the most famous Russian theater of the twentieth century – the Moscow Art Theater, as well as about the fate of the writer and his manuscript. Who and what is not here! This is a kind of chronicle of the "ordeals" of the young author (in which Bulgakov himself and his play "Days of the Turbins" are easily guessed) in theatrical and artistic Moscow. Among the people he meets are many famous writers, theater figures and stage stars of the 1930s - from Alexei Tolstoy, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich–Danchenko to Olga Knipper-Chekhov and Valentin Kataev.