Life with Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov was difficult, difficult, sometimes even tragic. And at the same time, intense, full of vivid impressions and events - because he had an extremely keen eye on what was happening around him - almost a camera lens that captures certain symbolic details of reality and fantastic fiction. Actually, the era itself was so contrasting and conflicting that only manage to notice and describe the lessons of life. But who needs contemporaries? Only three quarters of a century after his death Bulgakov turned out to be a fashionable classic, a beloved writer for several generations in a row. It is read and quoted, translated and constantly reprinted, put on and screened. It's hard to imagine a person who does not know Alexei Turbin and Woland, Ivan Vasilyevich Bunshu and Sharikov, who has never heard the advice "do not read Soviet newspapers before dinner", who did not know that "Annushka had already spilled oil", that "Muscovites had spoiled the housing problem," and "the housekeeper made vodka." Screen versions of Bulgakov's works became not just cultural events, but the phenomena of the era. That's why they are sorted into quotes, and even used as arguments in disputes of political, journalistic and domestic ...
