Bulgakov M. A. , Bulgakov E. C. The Diary of the Master and Margarita / Compilation, Foreword, Comments B. and . Loseva . - M. : Vagrius, 2004. — (Literature Memoirs.) VERBA VOLANT, SCRIPTA MANENT — WORDS FLY, WRITTEN STAY). — ISBN 5-264-00693-0 . In 1926, the OGPU organs seized Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov’s diary, eloquently entitled “Under the heel” by him. The writer no longer dared to turn to such a personal form of presentation of his thoughts and experiences, but courageously continued the dispute between the creator and the authorities: his letters to Stalin, the government of the USSR, Yagoda, Rykov, Lunacharsky, Gorky, relatives, friends developed and deepened many thoughts of the diary. From 1933 until the death of the writer, the diary, at his insistence and often under his dictation, was led by Elena Sergeyevna Bulgakova, a faithful friend and wife of the Master, the prototype of Margarita in the famous novel. The journals and letters of the Bulgakovs made up the chronicle of the life of the classic literature of the 20th century. They are read with exciting interest - as a story about the tragic fate of the artist in a totalitarian state.