ABSTRACT
When ordinary people, however talented they may be, try to explain the life and work of a man of genius the attempt is doomed to failure. The result of their efforts will, objectively, be an approximation. The name of Mikhail Bulgakov first appeared in the “central press” at the beginning of 1921 in the Petrograd journal The Literary Messenger (Vestnik literatury). Publishing an article by Yury Slezkin about the literary situation in Vladikavkaz, the journal referred to Bulgakov as “Bulganov”.
