What was the person who created the most mysterious and sensual novel in Russian literature? Bulgakov had three wives, two divorces and one passion. Devoted Lappa, extravagant Belozerskaya and desperate Shilovskaya - which of them was the one, the only one? His biography could have resembled the biography of an ordinary zemstvo doctor of those years: a proper family, service, White Guard, wanderings and torment of a Russian intellectual... If not for two circumstances. His incredible stunning literary genius and... morphine. The author of the book, the famous writer and researcher Varlen Strongin, having studied almost every day in the life of Mikhail Afanasvievich, managed to so excitingly put the story of Bulgakov’s life and love on paper that, believe me, this manuscript will not burn...< /p>