Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (1891-1940) was one of the most significant Russian writers of the twentieth century. He had a chance to experience both success and disgrace, his words "manuscripts do not burn" accurately convey the tragedy of a whole period in the history of Russian literature, they became a metaphor for genuine creativity. Today, when Bulgakov's works are included in the Golden Fund of Russian classics, it is difficult to imagine how long they went to the readers, what cruel persecution the writer was subjected to by official criticism. Since the end of the 1920s, it almost ceased to print, it was forbidden to publish "Notes on the cuffs", reissue the collection of satirical stories "Diaboliad", seized the manuscript of the story "heart of a Dog", interrupted the publication of the novel "White guard", removed from the repertoire of his plays-and "Days of the Turbins", and "run", and "zoikin's apartment"... After almost a century, all these works are a constant success among readers, interest in the work of Bulgakov does not weaken. Fascinating stories ("fiction, rooted in everyday life"), vivid images, moral problems raised to the universal scale-all this makes you come back again and again to read.