The Life of M. de Molire / Mikhail Bulgakov . — Publisher: ABC Classic, 2007. Perhaps only two Russian writers, passionately dreamed of visiting abroad, never realized their dream. They were not able to escape, nor were they able to escape. The first is Pushkin .. The second is Bulgakov .. What feelings should Bulgakov , have felt? Having concluded in 1932 a contract for a book about his favorite playwright Molire in the series "Life of wonderful people" and knowing it at the same time that he will never be able to visit the homeland of his hero! The atmosphere of Paris of the second half of the seventeenth century he created by the power of his imagination , Having as source material only domestic and foreign literary sources. He writes to his brother Nicholas in Paris: "You would oblige me very much if you chose a free moment in order to at least take a cursory look at the monument to Molire (the fountain of Molire), Richelieu Street . I need a brief but accurate description of this monument in its present form ... If you fulfilled my request, you would make it easier for me to do my hard work ... Too clearly traced in Moliere's biography the theme of "writer and power", a theme that runs through the red thread and through another Bulgakov's work - the novel "Master and Margarita" .. For the first time, “The Life of Mr. de Molire” appeared in print twenty-two years after the death of the author and immediately won great readership. This edition is provided with a commentary detailing the history of the creation by Bulgakov of the novel-biography "The Life of Mr. de Molire" .