About the book: 1986 / Mikhail Bulgakov said that prose and dramaturgy for him are like the right and left hands of a pianist. But while quite a lot has been written about the prose of the author of The Master and Margarita, his theatrical fate has not yet been sufficiently illuminated. The book by A. M. Smelyansky examines the history of such plays as “Days of the Turbins”, “Running”, “Molière”, the staging of “Dead Souls” and their production on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. The book ends with an analysis of the “Theatrical Novel”, as if summing up the relationship between Bulgakov and the Art Theater. The book is illustrated. Designed for specialists and a wide range of readers interested in theater.