Literay Fact Literay Fact 2541-8297 2542-2421 IWL RAS https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2017-5-266-287 Articles Notes on sources and components the novel M.A. Bulgakov “Master and Margarita” Katsis Leonid F. editor@litfact.ru 2017 M.A. Bulgakov “Master and Margarita” historical sources prototypes of the novel Baron Maigel K.R. “Tsar the Judaic” A. Kugel Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 In work new approach to the analysis of real historical sources and characters of the novel of M.A. Bulgakov “Master and Margarita” is offered. In the first note the prototypes of “theatre director” changing from edition to edition are analyzed. On the basis of documents of diplomatic correspondence of the Latvian Embassy it is shown that the director of Maly Theatre Kozlov who was earlier not joining in the list of prototypes of the novel was “theatre director” from the finishing edition and also the destiny and arrest of the baron Maygel (Shteyger) connected with scenes of “the Ball of the Satan” is tracked. In the second note the reasons of inclusion in number of prototexts of the novel of the play of K.R. “Tsar the Judaic” are analyzed. 1. Bulgakov M. Master i Margarita. Polnoe sobranie chernovikov romana. Osnovnoi tekst: V 2-kh t. T. 2: Shestaia redaktsiia romana «Master i Margarita» (1938–1940) [Master and Margarita. Complete collection of drafts of the novel. The main text: In 2 volumes. Vol. 2: The sixth edition of the novel “Master and Margarita” (1938–1940)]. Moscow, Pashkov dom Publ., 2015. 840 p. (In Russ.) 2. Dnevnik Eleny Bulgakovoi [Diary of Elena Bulgakova]. Moscow, Knizhnaia palata Publ., 1990. 400 p. (In Russ.) 3. Katsis L. Russkaia eskhatologiia i russkaia literatura [Russian eschatology and Russian literature]. Moscow, OGI Publ., 2000. 656 p. (In Russ.) 4. Katsis L. Smena paradigm i smena Paradigmy. Ocherki russkoi kul'tury, nauki i iskusstva XX veka [The paradigm shift and the paradigm shift. Essays on Russian culture, science and art of the twentieth century]. Moscow, RGGU Publ., 2012. 643 p. (In Russ.) 5. Lunacharskii A. Russkii Faust [Russian Faust]. Voprosy filosofii i psikhologii, 1902, XIII, 63 (III), pp. 783–795. (In Russ.) 6. Missiia v Moskve. Doneseniia latviiskikh diplomatov iz SSSR. 1935–1937. Dokumenty i materialy [Mission in Moscow. Reports of Latvian diplomats from the USSR. 1935–1937. Documents and materials]. Moscow, Russkaia kniga Publ., 2016. 392 p. (In Russ.) 7. Parshin L. Chertovshchina v amerikanskom posol'stve v Moskve, ili 13 zagadok Mikhaila Bulgakova [Chertovshchina in the American Embassy in Moscow, or 13 mysteries of Mikhail Bulgakov]. Moscow, Knizhnaia palata Publ., 1991. 206 p. (In Russ.) 8. Paustovskii K. Snezhnye shapki [Snow Hats]. In: Vospominaniia o Mikhaile Bulgakove [Memoirs of Mikhail Bulgakov]. Moscow, Sovetskii pisatel' Publ., 1988, pp. 103–108. (In Russ.) 9. Petrovskii M. Master i Gorod. Kievskie konteksty Mikhaila Bulgakova [Master and City. Kiev contexts of Mikhail Bulgakov]. Kiev, Dukh i Litera Publ., 2001, pp. 106–146. (In Russ.) 10. Tolstaia E. Brodiaga iz Gamly i «Tsar' Iudeiskii»: ob odnom istochnike bulgakovskogo romana [The tramp from Gamla and the “King of the Jews”: about one source of the Bulgakov novel]. Russian Language Journal, vol. 43, no. 145/146 (Spring–Fall 1989), pp. 157–182. (In Russ.) 11. Chudakova M. Zhizneopisanie Mikhaila Bulgakova [Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov]. Moscow, Kniga Publ., 1988. 672 p. (In Russ.) 12. Chudakova M. Osvedomiteli v dome Bulgakova v seredine 1930-kh gg. [Informants in Bulgakov's house in the mid–1930's]. In: Sed'mye Tynianovskie chteniia. Materialy dlia obsuzhdeniia. Tynianovskii sbornik [Seventh Tynyanov Readings. Discussion materials. Tynyanovsky collection]. Vyp. 9. Riga–Moskva, 1995–1996, pp. 385–463. (In Russ.) 13. Homo Novus [A.R. Kugel']. Pis'ma na Rodinu [Letters to the Motherland]. Kievskaia mysl', 1918, 3/XI (21/X), p. 2. (In Russ.)