“We need to change wives, my friend. To be a writer, you need to get married three times,” the already venerable Alexei Tolstoy told the aspiring Bulgakov. And these words turned out to be prophetic - in the Master’s life there were three novels, three loves, three wives. What kind of women won his heart, playing the main roles in his work and destiny? To which of them does Bulgakov owe salvation from drug addiction, and is it true that they say that healing from a fatal passion is the same as “jumping off a needle”? How did he confess his love and why did he stop loving? Why didn’t he have children, through whose fault two of his marriages broke up and for which, after the divorce, he repented to his first wife: “Because of you, God will punish me”? How did the Master find his Margarita, who forced him to overcome anti-Semitic prejudices and marry the daughter of a baptized Jew? Did he find peace that valued more than light? And isn’t that lucky man who can, like Bulgakov, whisper to his beloved before his death: “You were the best woman in the world! My deity, my happiness, my joy. My queen, my queen, my star, which has always shone for me in my earthly life! I love you, I adore you! My love, my wife, my life!”