To mark the birthday of Mikhail Bulgakov the Russian publishing house Vagrius has published a complete set of editions of the legendary novel Master and Margarita.
      
      The well-known connoisseur of Bulgakov’s writings Viktor Losev has reconstructed the story of creation of one of the most famous novels of the 20th century. The book has been titled “My poor, poor Master…”
      
      The set of works includes all the preserved of the important editions of the novel under the titles “The Black Magus”, “Hoof of an Engineer”, “Evening of the Frightful Saturday”, “The Great Chancellor”, and “The Golden Spear”. Among these titles Bulgakov had tried to choose a proper name for his masterpiece till he arrived at the final version “Master and Margarita”.
      
      The newly published book presents also a chapter from one of the first versions of the novel, “Hoof of an Engineer” that was burnt by Bulgakov in 1930.
      
      Source: pravda.ru