The author of this book is an outstanding Russian literary critic, Doctor of Philology, Marietta Omarovna Chudakova (1937–2021). “The Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov” was published in 1988, for the first time the biography of the writer was presented in such a consistent and comprehensive presentation. Readers had the opportunity to get acquainted with archival documents, testimonies of people surrounding the writer, fragments of his diaries and letters (not yet published at that time), and most importantly, to assess the true scale of Bulgakov’s personality, without censorship gloss and ideological silences. Today it is difficult to even imagine how much work it took M. O. Chudakova to collect all the factual material that we have today. Until now, this book remains the most authoritative study of Bulgakov’s biography. It was translated into other languages, but M. O. Chudakova refused numerous proposals from Russian publishers: she hoped to prepare a revised version of the text, but did not have time to do this. Nevertheless, this edition takes into account the author's amendments to the text, preserved in a copy from the Chudakovs' home library. The publishing design is preserved in PDF A4 format.