The death of Mikhail Bulgakov and his gifts. Leeches, triad and morphine on manuscripts. How and from what did Mikhail Bulgakov die. The diagnosis, or rather the symptom complex, becomes clear: chronic renal failure. Bulgakov also puts it on himself

Born in the family of a teacher of the Kyiv Theological Academy Afanasy Ivanovich Bulgakov and his wife Varvara Mikhailovna. He was the eldest child in the family and had six more brothers and sisters.

In 1901-1909 he studied at the First Kyiv Gymnasium, after graduating from which he entered the Medical Faculty of Kyiv University. He studied there for seven years and submitted a report to serve as a doctor in the maritime department, but was refused for health reasons.

In 1914, with the outbreak of the First World War, he worked as a doctor in front-line hospitals in Kamenetz-Podolsk and Chernivtsi, in the Kiev military hospital. In 1915 he married Tatyana Nikolaevna Lappa. On October 31, 1916 he received a diploma "in the degree of a doctor with honors."

In 1917, he first used morphine to relieve the symptoms of diphtheria vaccination and became addicted to it. In the same year he visited Moscow and in 1918 returned to Kyiv, where he began the private practice of a venereologist, having stopped using morphine.

In 1919, during the Civil War, Mikhail Bulgakov was mobilized as a military doctor, first into the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, then into the Red Army, then into the Armed Forces of the South of Russia, then transferred to the Red Cross. At this time, he began to work as a correspondent. On November 26, 1919, the feuilleton "Future Prospects" was first published in the Grozny newspaper signed by M.B. He fell ill with typhus in 1920 and remained in Vladikavkaz without retreating to Georgia along with the Volunteer Army.

In 1921, Mikhail Bulgakov moved to Moscow and entered the service of the Glavpolitprosvet under the People's Commissariat for Education as a secretary, led by N.K. Krupskaya, wife of V.I. Lenin. In 1921, after the department was disbanded, he collaborated with the newspapers Gudok, Rabochiy and the magazines Red Journal for Everyone, Medical Worker, Rossiya under the pseudonym Mikhail Bull and M.B., writes and publishes in 1922-1923 years of "Notes on the Cuffs", participates in the literary circles "Green Lamp", "Nikitinsky Subbotniks".

In 1924 he divorced his wife and in 1925 married Lyubov Evgenievna Belozerskaya. This year, the story “The Heart of a Dog”, the plays “Zoyka’s Apartment” and “Days of the Turbins” were written, the satirical stories “The Diaboliad”, the story “Fatal Eggs” were published.

In 1926, the play "Days of the Turbins" was staged with great success at the Moscow Art Theater, allowed on the personal instructions of I. Stalin, who visited it 14 times. In the theater. E. Vakhtangov with great success the premiere of the play "Zoyka's Apartment", which ran from 1926 to 1929, took place. M. Bulgakov moved to Leningrad, where he met with Anna Akhmatova and Yevgeny Zamyatin and was summoned several times for interrogation to the OGPU about his literary work. The Soviet press intensively scolds the work of Mikhail Bulgakov - for 10 years there have been 298 abusive reviews and positive ones.

In 1927, the play "Running" was written.

In 1929, Mikhail Bulgakov met Elena Sergeevna Shilovskaya, who became his third wife in 1932.

In 1929, the works of M. Bulgakov ceased to be published, the plays were forbidden to be staged. Then, on March 28, 1930, he wrote a letter to the Soviet government with a request either to give the right to emigrate, or to provide the opportunity to work at the Moscow Art Theater in Moscow. On April 18, 1930, I. Stalin called Bulgakov and recommended that he apply to the Moscow Art Theater with a request for enrollment.

1930-1936 Mikhail Bulgakov worked at the Moscow Art Theater in Moscow as an assistant director. The events of those years were described in the "Notes of a Dead Man" - "Theatrical Novel". In 1932, I. Stalin personally allowed the production of "Days of the Turbins" only in the Moscow Art Theater.

In 1934, Mikhail Bulgakov was admitted to the Soviet Union of Writers and completed the first version of The Master and Margarita.

In 1936, Pravda published a devastating article about the "false, reactionary and useless" play "The Cabal of the Hypocrites", which had been rehearsed for five years at the Moscow Art Theater. Mikhail Bulgakov went to work at the Bolshoi Theater as a translator and libbretist.

In 1939 he wrote the play "Batum" about I. Stalin. During its production, a telegram arrived about the cancellation of the performance. And a sharp deterioration in the health of Mikhail Bulgakov began. Hypertensive nephrosclerosis was diagnosed, vision began to fall, and the writer began to use morphine again. At this time, he dictated to his wife the latest versions of the novel The Master and Margarita. The wife draws up a power of attorney to manage all the affairs of her husband. The novel "The Master and Margarita" was published only in 1966 and brought world fame to the writer.

On March 10, 1940, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov died; on March 11, the sculptor S.D. Merkulov removed the death mask from his face. M.A. Bulgakov was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, where, at the request of his wife, a stone from the grave of N.V. Gogol, nicknamed "Golgotha".

Mikhail Bulgakov was born on May 15, 1891 in Kyiv in the family of a professor at the Kyiv Theological Academy.

Until the autumn of 1900, he studied at home, then entered the first class of the Alexander Gymnasium, where the best teachers in Kyiv were concentrated. Already in the gymnasium, Bulgakov showed his various abilities: he wrote poetry, drew caricatures, played the piano, sang, composed oral stories and told them beautifully.
After graduating from the gymnasium in 1909, Bulgakov became a student at the medical faculty of the Kyiv Imperial University of St. Vladimir. In 1913, Bulgakov enters into his first marriage - marriage to Tatyana Lappa.
With the outbreak of the First World War, together with his wife, Bulgakov worked in a hospital. There he became addicted to morphine, but thanks to his wife, he was able to get rid of the addiction. Subsequently, the tragic fate of a morphine doctor will become the basis of the plot of Bulgakov's story "Morphine", which was published in the journal Medical Worker in 1927.

In 1915, Bulgakov volunteered for the front, worked in a front-line hospital, gaining medical experience under the guidance of military surgeons. In 1916, after graduating from the university, he received a diploma with honors and went to the Smolensk province as a zemstvo doctor, which was subsequently reflected in the Notes of a Young Doctor.
The civil war found Bulgakov in Kyiv. He saw the decline of the "white movement", witnessed the German occupation of Ukraine in 1918, the atrocities of the Petliura gangs. In 1919-1921 he lived in Vladikavkaz, worked in the newspaper "Caucasus" and began to write for the theater. In 1921 Bulgakov moved to Moscow.
During the NEP, literary life in Russia began to revive, private publishing houses were created, and new magazines were opened. In 1922, Bulgakov published the stories The Extraordinary Adventures of the Doctor and The Seance. Many of his works saw the light of day: Notes on the Cuffs, The Adventures of Chichikov, Forty Magpies, Travel Notes, Crimson Island.

In 1924, he worked in the railway workers' newspaper Gudok, which at that time united such talented writers as Olesha and Kataev, Ilf and Petrov, Paustovsky and others. On the initiative of the Moscow Art Theater, he created a play based on the novel The White Guard, which was staged under the title Days of the Turbins. In 1927 he completed the drama "Running", which was banned shortly before the premiere.
In 1925, the story "Fatal Eggs" was published in the almanac "Nedra", which caused dissatisfaction with the authorities. The story "Heart of a Dog", already prepared for publication, was not allowed for publication (it was first published in 1987).

From 1928, Bulgakov began to write the novel The Master and Margarita and worked on it for twelve years, that is, until the end of his life, not hoping to publish it. In 1965, the Theatrical Novel, written in 1936-1937, was published in the Novy Mir magazine.
In 1929-1930, not a single play by Bulgakov was staged, not a single line of his appeared in print. He wrote a letter to Stalin with a request to allow him to leave the country or give him the opportunity to earn a living. After that, he worked at the Moscow Art Theater and the Bolshoi Theater.
In 1939, M. Bulgakov worked on the libretto "Rachel", as well as on a play about Stalin ("Batum"). The play was approved by Stalin, but, contrary to the writer's expectations, it was banned from publication and staging. The state of health of M. Bulgakov is deteriorating sharply. Doctors diagnose him with hypertensive nephrosclerosis. Bulgakov continues to use morphine, prescribed to him in 1924, in order to relieve pain symptoms. In the same period, the writer begins to dictate to his wife (this is already his third wife - Elena Sergeevna Nuremberg-Shilovskaya, for whom this marriage will also be the third) the last versions of the novel "The Master and Margarita". He made the last edits on February 13th.
Since February 1940, friends and relatives have been constantly on duty at the bedside of M. Bulgakov, and on March 10, 1940, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov died. Rumors spread around the capital that the writer's illness was caused by his occult pursuits - being carried away by all sorts of devilry, Bulgakov paid for this with his health, and his early death was the result of Bulgakov's relations with representatives of evil spirits. Another version said that in the last years of his life, Bulgakov again became addicted to drugs, and they brought him to the grave. The official cause of the writer's death was called hypertensive nephrosclerosis.

On March 11, a civil memorial service was held in the building of the Union of Soviet Writers. Before the memorial service, the Moscow sculptor S. D. Merkurov removes the death mask from the face of M. Bulgakov.M. Bulgakov is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery. On his grave, at the request of his wife E. S. Bulgakova, a stone was installed, nicknamed "calvary", which previously lay on the grave of N. V. Gogol.

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Causes of Bulgakov's death.

His illness was discovered in the fall of 1939 during a trip to Leningrad. The diagnosis was as follows: acutely developing high hypertension, renal sclerosis. Returning to Moscow, Bulgakov fell ill until the end of his days.

“I came to him on the very first day after their arrival,” recalls a close friend of the writer, playwright Sergei Yermolinsky. “He was unexpectedly calm. He consistently told me everything that would happen to him within six months - how the disease would develop. weeks, months and even numbers, defining all the stages of the disease. I did not believe him, but then everything went according to the schedule he had drawn himself. When he called me, I went to him. Once, raising his eyes to me, he spoke, lowering voice and in some uncharacteristic words, as if embarrassed: "I wanted to tell you something. You understand. Like any mortal, it seems to me that there is no death. It is simply impossible to imagine. But it is."

He thought about it and then said again that spiritual communication with a loved one does not go away after his death, on the contrary, it can become aggravated, and this is very important for this to happen. Life flows around him in waves, but no longer touches him. The same thought, day and night, no sleep. Words stand up visibly, you can jump up and write them down, but you can’t get up, and everything, blurring, is forgotten, disappears. So the beautiful satanic witches fly over the ravine, as they fly in his novel. And real life turns into a vision, breaking away from everyday life, refuting it with fiction in order to crush the vulgar fuss and evil.

Almost until the very last day, he worried about his novel, demanded that one page or another be read to him. These were days of silent and unrelieved suffering. The words slowly died in him. The usual doses of sleeping pills stopped working.

His entire body was poisoned, every muscle ached unbearably at the slightest movement. He screamed, unable to contain his screams. That cry is still in my ears. We carefully turned it over. No matter how painful it was for him from our touches, he strengthened himself and, even moaning softly, spoke to me barely audibly, with his lips alone: ​​- You do it well. Good. He is blind.

He lay naked, with only a loincloth. His body was dry. He has lost a lot of weight. In the morning, Zhenya, Lena's eldest son (the son of Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova from her first marriage. - A.D.), came. Bulgakov touched his face and smiled. He did this not only because he loved this dark-haired, very handsome young man, coldly reserved in an adult way - he did this not only for him, but also for Lena. Perhaps this was the last manifestation of his love for her - and gratitude.

On March 10, at 4 pm, he died. For some reason it always seems to me that it was at dawn. The next morning - or maybe the same day, time shifted in my memory, but it seems the next morning - the phone rang. I came up. They spoke from Stalin's Secretariat. The voice asked: - Is it true that Comrade Bulgakov died? - Yes, he died. The person who spoke to me hung up."

A few entries from the diary of Bulgakov's wife Elena Sergeevna should be added to Yermolinsky's memoirs. She testifies that in the last month of his life he was deepened in his thoughts, looked at those around him with alienated eyes. And yet, despite not physical suffering and a painful state of mind, he found the courage in himself to, dying, joke "with the same force of humor, wit." He continued to work on the novel "The Master and Margarita".

Here are the last entries from the diary of E. S. Bulgakova:

Dictated a page (about Styopa - Yalta).

Work on a novel.

Terribly hard day. "Can you get a revolver from Eugene *?"

He said: "All my life I despised, that is, I did not despise, but did not understand. Philemon and Baucis ** . and now I understand, this is only valuable in life."

Me: "Be courageous."

In the morning, at 11 o'clock. "For the first time in all five months of my illness, I am happy. I am lying down. Peace, you are with me. This is happiness. Sergey is in the next room."

"Happiness is to lie for a long time. in the apartment. of a loved one. to hear his voice. that's all. the rest is not necessary."

At 8 o'clock (to Sergey) "Be fearless, this is the main thing."

In the morning: "You are everything to me, you replaced the entire globe. I saw in a dream that you and I were on the globe." All the time all day extraordinarily affectionate, gentle, all the time love words - my love. love you - you'll never understand it.

In the morning - a meeting, hugged tightly, spoke so gently, happily, as before before the illness, when they parted for at least a short while. Then (after a seizure): die, die. (pause). but death is still terrible. However, I hope so (pause). today is the last, no penultimate day.

Without date.

Strongly, drawn out, raised: "I love you, I love you, I love you!" - Like a spell. I will love you all my life. - Mine!

"Oh my gold!" (In a moment of terrible pain - with force). Then separately and with difficulty opening his mouth: go-lub-ka. Darling. When I fell asleep, I wrote down what I remembered. "Come to me, I will kiss you and cross you just in case. You were my wife, the best, irreplaceable, charming. When I heard the sound of your heels. You were the best woman in the world. My divinity, my happiness, my joy. I love you! And if I am destined to live, I will love you all my life. My little queen, my queen, my star, which always shone on me in my earthly life! You loved my things, I wrote them for you. I love you, I adore you! My love, my wife, my life!" Before that: "Did you love me? And then, tell me, my friend, my faithful friend."

Misha is dead.

And one more touch. Valentin Kataev, whom Bulgakov did not like and even once publicly called "an asshole", tells how he visited Bulgakov shortly before his death. "He (Bulgakov) said in his usual way: - I am old and seriously ill. This time he was not joking. He was really mortally ill and, as a doctor, he knew it well. He had an exhausted earthy face. My heart sank. - K Unfortunately, I can offer you nothing but this," he said, and took a bottle of cold water from behind the window. We clinked glasses and took a sip. He bore his poverty with dignity.

I'm going to die soon," he said impassively. I began to say what is always said in such cases - to convince him that he is suspicious, that he is mistaken. “I can even tell you how it will be,” he interrupted me without listening to the end. he will hit the door of Romashov, who lives on the floor below.

Everything happened exactly as he predicted. The corner of his coffin hit the door of the playwright Boris Romashov.

Mikhail Bulgakov almost accurately predicted the date of his death. He predicted when he was on his feet and looked like a completely healthy person. After 7 months he was gone. Is it the premonition of a good writer or the experience of a good doctor?

"Keep in mind, I'm going to die very hard"

Doctors say that it is, in principle, difficult to stay healthy in the life that Bulgakov lived. Two wars, famine, epidemics of typhus and cholera. Yes, and heredity is heavy - Bulgakov's father died of the same disease and at the same age as Mikhail Afanasyevich. However, the writer's brothers and sisters lived long lives.

The experts of the documentary series "Clinical Case" on the channel "Doctor" tried to answer the question why the best doctors of that time did not help Mikhail Bulgakov and modern doctors could cure the writer.

“Keep in mind, I will die very hard, give me an oath that you will not send me to the hospital, but I will die in your arms,” Bulgakov told his wife in 1939. Elena Sergeevna fulfilled the request. The writer died at home, experiencing terrible pain - even the touch of clothes and blankets were painful. The diagnosis is nephrosclerosis, a progressive kidney disease complicated by arterial hypertension, that is, high blood pressure.

Serum sickness

The writer had kidney failure since childhood and, most likely, he inherited from his father. In 1916, Bulgakov received a doctor's diploma with honors in Kyiv. At first he worked as a military doctor at the front of the First World War, "sawed his legs", since the most common soldier's diagnosis then was gangrene.

After that, he was sent to the village of Nikolskoye as a zemstvo doctor, that is, a person who treats almost everything - a therapist, surgeon and obstetrician all rolled into one.

Bulgakov will write his Notes of a Young Doctor about his work in Nikolskoye, including how he treated diphtheria croup in peasant children. Diphtheria is an often fatal infectious disease in which a thin film can block the airways. The croup does not allow breathing and kills the patient, so the doctor in those years had to suck off the film with a special tube. With such a procedure, the doctor himself often fell ill - on account of diphtheria, thousands of doctors died during the work of doctors.

Bulgakov was treating a child for croup and realized that he might have been infected. He decided to inject himself with anti-diphtheria serum. It was very different from the modern vaccine - yes, it more or less protected against infection, but it had severe side effects and could cause serum sickness. This is exactly what happened to Bulgakov. He began to itch, his face was swollen, he could not walk, he was constantly in bed. And without that, not very good health was shaken. To ease the pain, Bulgakov wrote himself a prescription for morphine. The writer's first wife bought it in various pharmacies so as not to arouse suspicion, and Bulgakov injected himself with it twice a day. He was later able to overcome the dependence on morphine, but the habit of anesthesia was not. She, perhaps, led him to his death.

Excruciating headaches

During the Civil War, the writer again worked at the front and suffered typhus there. Survived. Moved to Moscow. There he worked hard and productively. Increasingly, the writer began to be tormented by unbearable headaches, with which he subsequently awarded the hero of The Master and Margarita Pontius Pilate: “The procurator was like a stone, because he was afraid to shake his head with a burning hellish pain.

In order to somehow alleviate his condition, Bulgakov drank a lot of painkillers, 4 powders at a time. "One of the reasons why Bulgakov's kidney disease progressed is the nephrotoxic effect of these drugs," he said. Professor of Sechenov University Leonid Dvoretsky.

“Chronic kidney disease is a silent killer,” says nephrologist Mikhail Shvetsov about Bulgakov’s disease. “For a very long time, the patient does not experience any symptoms, deterioration of health.”

But kidney failure often predisposes to hypertension and strokes. The writer developed the most severe form - malignant arterial hypertension, which quickly gives complications to the eyes, heart and, again, the kidneys.

In 1939, Bulgakov constantly joked about his death, saying that he was writing his last play, living for the last year, and the apartment already “smells like a dead man.” At the same time, his analyzes were quite good. The fact is that ultrasound, which had not yet been invented, could confirm changes in the kidneys - nephrosclerosis. It will appear only in 2 years, and it will enter wide practice even later.

And soon the writer went blind (his father also went blind before his death). Bulgakov, to whom Joseph Stalin had a special, albeit difficult attitude, was treated by the best doctors in the USSR, including Secretary General's personal doctor Professor Vinogradov. The writer is sent to a sanatorium in Barvikha to eat vegetables and breathe air. Vision returns, but the disease continues to progress. Bulgakov returned from the sanatorium disappointed in the therapists. As a doctor, he knew that the treatment hadn't worked.

A transplant would help.

Mikhail Bulgakov is a Russian writer and playwright, the author of many works that today are considered classics of Russian literature. Suffice it to name such novels as The Master and Margarita, The White Guard and the stories The Devil, Heart of a Dog, Notes on the Cuffs. Many books and plays by Bulgakov were filmed.

Childhood and youth

Michael was born in Kyiv in the family of professor-theologian Athanasius Ivanovich and his wife Varvara Mikhailovna, who was engaged in raising seven children. Misha was the eldest child and, if possible, helped his parents manage the household. Of the other Bulgakov children, Nikolai, who became a biologist, became famous, Ivan, who became famous in exile as a balalaika musician, and Varvara, who turned out to be the prototype of Elena Turbina in the novel The White Guard.

After graduating from the gymnasium, Mikhail Bulgakov enters the university at the Faculty of Medicine. His choice turned out to be connected solely with mercantile desire - both uncles of the future writer were doctors and made very good money. For a boy who grew up in a large family, this nuance was fundamental.

During the First World War, Mikhail Afanasyevich served in the frontline zone as a doctor, after which he healed in Vyazma, and later in Kyiv, as a venereologist. In the early 1920s, he moved to Moscow and began his literary career, first as a feuilletonist, later as a playwright and theater director at the Moscow Art Theater and the Central Theater of Working Youth.

Books

The first published book by Mikhail Bulgakov was the story "The Adventures of Chichikov", written in a satirical manner. It was followed by the partially autobiographical Notes on the Cuffs, the social drama The Diaboliad, and the writer's first major work, the novel The White Guard. Surprisingly, Bulgakov's first novel was criticized from all sides: local censorship called it anti-communist, and the foreign press spoke of it as being too loyal just to the Soviet regime.

Mikhail Afanasyevich told about the beginning of his medical activity in the collection of short stories “Notes of a Young Doctor”, which is still read with great interest today. The story "Morphine" stands out in particular. One of the author's most famous books, The Heart of a Dog, is also connected with medicine, although in reality it is a subtle satire on Bulgakov's modern reality. At the same time, the fantastic story "Fatal Eggs" was also written.

By 1930, the works of Mikhail Afanasyevich were no longer printed. For example, "Heart of a Dog" was first published only in 1987, "The Life of Monsieur de Molière" and "Theatrical Romance" - in 1965. And the most powerful and incredibly large-scale novel, The Master and Margarita, which Bulgakov wrote from 1929 until his death, was first published only at the end of the 60s, and then in an abridged form.

In March 1930, the writer, who lost ground under his feet, sent a letter to the government in which he asked to decide his fate - either to allow him to emigrate, or to give him the opportunity to work. As a result, he received a personal phone call and said that he would be allowed to stage performances. But the publication of Bulgakov's books never resumed during his lifetime.

Theatre

Back in 1925, Mikhail Bulgakov's plays, Zoya's Apartment, Days of the Turbins, based on the novel The White Guard, The Run, Crimson Island, were staged with great success on the stage of Moscow theaters. A year later, the ministry wanted to ban the production of The Days of the Turbins as an "anti-Soviet thing", but it was decided not to do this, since Stalin really liked the performance, who visited it 14 times.

Soon, Bulgakov's plays were nevertheless removed from the repertoire of all theaters in the country, and only in 1930, after the personal intervention of the Leader, Mikhail Afanasyevich was reinstated as a playwright and director.

He staged Gogol's "Dead Souls" and Dickens's "Pickwick Club", but his author's plays "", "Bliss", "Ivan Vasilyevich" and others during the life of the playwright were never published.

The only exception was the play "The Cabal of the Hypocrites", staged based on Bulgakov's play "" in 1936 after a five-year series of failures. The premiere was a huge success, but the troupe managed to give only 7 shows, after which the play was banned. After that, Mikhail Afanasyevich quits the theater and later earns a living as a translator.

Personal life

The first wife of the great writer was Tatyana Lappa. Their wedding was more than poor - the bride did not even have a veil, and then they lived very modestly. By the way, it was Tatyana who became the prototype for Anna Kirillovna from the story "Morphine".

In 1925, Bulgakov met Lyubov Belozerskaya, who came from an old family of princes. She was fond of literature and fully understood Mikhail Afanasyevich as a creator. The writer immediately divorces Lappa and marries Belozerskaya.

And in 1932 he met Elena Sergeevna Shilovskaya, nee Nuremberg. A man leaves his second wife and leads his third wife down the aisle. By the way, it is Elena who is depicted in his most famous novel in the image of Margarita. Bulgakov lived with his third wife until the end of his life, and it was she who made titanic efforts so that later the works of her beloved were published. Michael had no children with any of his wives.

There is a funny arithmetic-mystical situation with Bulgakov's spouses. Each of them had three official marriages, like himself. Moreover, for the first wife of Tatyana, Mikhail was the first spouse, for the second Lyubov - the second, and for the third Elena, respectively, the third. So Bulgakov's mysticism is present not only in books, but also in life.

Death

In 1939, the writer worked on the play "Batum" about Joseph Stalin, in the hope that such a work would definitely not be banned. The play was already being prepared for production when the order came to stop rehearsals. After that, Bulgakov's health began to deteriorate sharply - he began to lose his sight, and congenital kidney disease also made itself felt.

Mikhail Afanasyevich returned to the use of morphine to relieve pain symptoms. From the winter of 1940, the playwright stopped getting out of bed, and on March 10, the great writer died. Mikhail Bulgakov was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery, and at the insistence of his wife, a stone was laid on his grave, which was previously installed on the grave.

Bibliography

• 1922 - "The Adventures of Chichikov"
• 1923 - "Notes of a young doctor"
• 1923 - Diaboliad
• 1923 - "Notes on cuffs"
• 1924 - "White Guard"
• 1924 - "Fatal Eggs"
• 1925 - "Heart of a Dog"
• 1925 - "Zoyka's apartment"
• 1928 - "Running"
• 1929 - "Secret Friend"
• 1929 - "The Cabal of the Saints"
• 1929-1940 - The Master and Margarita
• 1933 - "The Life of Monsieur de Molière"
• 1936 - "Ivan Vasilyevich"
• 1937 - "Theatrical novel"