There are few writers in Russian literature whose work would be as autobiographical as the work of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer of complex and bitter fate who passed through the storms of the Civil War, overcame the severe illness of morphinism, experienced both great fame and the most severe persecution; an artist who opposed the "lawless tyranny" with the power of murderous irony and sarcasm. In "Notes of a young doctor" and in the novel "Morphine", the stories from the life of M. Bulgakov in the Smolensk province, where he served as a zemstvo doctor, were creatively reflected. "The Extraordinary Adventures of the Doctor" tells about the post-revolutionary events in the North Caucasus. The "Notes of the Deceased", also included in this edition, are related to the work of Bulgakov, a playwright at the Moscow Art Theater and were written at a difficult time for the writer, when his plays were banned from production. Many pages of the novel are permeated with Bulgakov's unsurpassed sarcasm, and sometimes poison, but they cannot hide the author's deepest love for the theater and for those who create it.