Diary of a dead man

Bolgaakov quickly moved to live in the capital Moscow, which was flooded with writers from all over the country, forming many literary circles, and private publishing houses and bookstores opened. Thanks to his persistence, he was able to pursue his new profession in hungry and cold Moscow in 1921, so he began publishing in the newspaper "Godok," collaborating with the editorial board of "Nakanooni" in Berlin, visiting creative circles, and making literary friendships. He saw his work in the newspaper as meaningless, but he was forced to earn a living, and he said, "I have lived three lives..." The Arab reader will read this sentence in the context of this unfinished novel we present before him. Bolgaakov mocked in what he published in "Nakanooni" the official slogans and journalistic molds, and in this newspaper, his works "The Adventures of an Unusual Doctor" (1922) and "Notes on the Cuffs" (1922–1923) were published. In his first work, he described the authorities and armies, some of which quickly replaced others, and he portrayed them with a touch of disgust that he did not try to hide. His hero rejected the ideas of both the Whites and Reds alike, but the writer's courage began to deepen from one work to another, and he started to dare to criticize openly. Mikhail Bolgaakov's most famous work is the novel "The Master and Margarita," which brought him worldwide fame, but after his death. His third wife, Elena Sergeyevna Bolgaakova, swore to him to publish this novel.