Slova «rukopisi ne gorjat» iz romana «Master i Margarita» tochno peredajut tragichnost tselogo perioda v istorii otechestvennoj literatury i javljajutsja metaforoj podlinnogo tvorchestva. Istoriju sozdanija odnogo iz samykh udivitelnykh i zagadochnykh romanov XX veka mozhno rekonstruirovat po sokhranivshimsja redaktsijam i variantam, kotorye predstavleny v dannom izdanii. Prosledit, kak rozhdalsja pod perom Mikhaila Bulgakova tekst romana vplot do okonchatelnoj redaktsii, kakimi epizodami on postepenno obrastal, v kakoj moment v nem pojavilis te ili inye personazhi i kogda on poluchil nazvanie «Master i Margarita» — zadacha chrezvychajno uvlekatelnaja. Sobrannye vmeste redaktsii i varianty romana pozvoljajut govorit o tom, naskolko velika distantsija, otdeljajuschaja poslednjuju redaktsiju romana ot pervonachalnogo zamysla. Eta kniga budet prekrasnym podarkom dlja ljubitelej tvorchestva Mikhaila Bulgakova.
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins. He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
Some of his works (Flight, all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them that they "glorified emigration and White generals". On the other hand, Stalin loved The Days of the Turbins (also called The Turbin Brothers) very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.