V. I. Losev, a well-known expert on the work of Mikhail Bulgakov, reconstructed the history of the creation of one of the most famous novels of the 20th century. The volume presents all the surviving major editions of the novel. Each of the texts is noticeably different from the subsequent ones, each reinterprets the described events and characters of the “sunset” novel in a new way, adding new bright touches to them... The canonical text of “The Master and Margarita” is also presented in the volume. Reading for those who love the work of M. A. Bulgakov This detailed and knowledgeably annotated volume is a most fascinating experience. The reader will trace the evolution of the idea, see how the master’s hand grew stronger, how the work was transformed, connected by the finest threads with the writer’s contemporary reality. The design uses fragments of B. A. Markevich’s illustrations for M. A. Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita.”