This work evoked and continues to evoke enthusiastic responses from writers, critics, and readers. This is how the famous literary critic V.V. Novikov characterizes this work: ““Khan’s Fire” is the most Bulgakovian thing. In terms of genre, it is more of a story than a short story, with a sharply entertaining plot and with clearly depicted types... The visual power of his story ( in plastic details) is equal to Bunin’s... Perhaps this is the most picturesque of Bulgakov’s narrative stories and the most historical of his: the logic of history has its own laws.