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When Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov wrote a novel about the Master, he hardly imagined that he was creating the most significant work of Russian literature of the twentieth century. Today, the work is deservedly included in the lists of the most read books in the world, while remaining the object of endless debate among literary scholars and philosophers.

And for website“The Master and Margarita” is simply a favorite story, full of mysteries and endless wisdom. What is needed most in our difficult times.

• Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in the world? May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!
• We speak different languages, as always, but the things we talk about do not change.
• Evil lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and table conversation. Such people are either seriously ill or secretly hate those around them.
• There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.
• These women are difficult people!
• A person without a surprise inside, in his box, is uninteresting.
• Everything will be right, the world is built on this.
• Yes, man is mortal, but that would not be so bad. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!
• It's nice to hear that you treat your cat so politely. For some reason, cats are usually called “you,” although not a single cat has ever drunk brotherhood with anyone.
• An unhappy person is cruel and callous. And all just because good people mutilated him.
• Do you judge by the suit? Never do this. You can make a mistake, and a very big one at that.
• Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially among those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves.
• He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
• For mercy... Would I allow myself to pour vodka for the lady? This is pure alcohol!
• The second freshness is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first, and it is also the last. And if the sturgeon is second freshness, then this means that it is rotten!
• It is easy and pleasant to speak the truth.
• Why pursue in the footsteps of what is already over?
• - Dostoevsky died.
  - I protest, Dostoevsky is immortal!
• And fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
• All theories are worth one another. Among them there is one according to which everyone will be given according to their faith. May it come true!
• What country's wine do you prefer at this time of day?
• My drama is that I live with someone I don’t love, but I consider it unworthy to ruin his life.
• - Cowardice is one of the most terrible human vices.
  - No, I dare to object to you. Cowardice is the most terrible human vice.
• Never be afraid of anything. This is unreasonable.
• The most terrible anger is the anger of powerlessness.
• What would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?
• Understand that the tongue can hide the truth, but the eyes can never!
• People are like people. They love money, but this has always been the case... Humanity loves money, no matter what it is made of, whether leather, paper, bronze or gold. Well, they are frivolous... well, well... and mercy sometimes knocks on their hearts... ordinary people... in general, they resemble the old ones... The housing issue only spoiled them.
• No matter what pessimists say, the earth is still absolutely beautiful, and under the moon it is simply unique.

“More on,” said Ivan, “and please don’t miss anything.
“Next?” the guest asked, “well, you could guess what’s next.” He suddenly wiped away an unexpected tear with his right sleeve and continued: “love jumped out in front of us, like a killer jumps out of the ground in an alley, and struck us right away.” both!
That's how lightning strikes, that's how a Finnish knife strikes! She, however, later claimed that this was not so, that we, of course, loved each other a long time ago, without knowing each other, never seeing each other, and that she lived with another person, and I was there then... With this what's her name...

“With whom?” asked the Homeless Man.
- With this... Well... This, well... The guest answered and snapped his fingers.
- Were you married?
“Well, yes, here I am clicking... On this... Varenka, Manechka... No, Varenka... Another striped dress... Museum... However, I don’t remember.”

"Master and Margarita".

It’s impossible to write something like this without experiencing the same thing... He wrote about himself, about his bitter and happy love, which made him and his beloved suffer and suffer, destroy their own families, go against the demands of society with the only goal - never to part.

But first, about those women he was married to before...Tatiana: First love...

They met in the summer of 1908 - a friend of his mother brought her niece Tasya Lappa from Saratov for the holidays. She was only a year younger than Mikhail, and the young man with great enthusiasm began to take care of the young lady.
But the summer is over, Mikhail left for Kyiv. The next time he saw Tasya was only three years later.
And in March 1913, student Bulgakov submitted a petition addressed to the rector to the university office for permission to marry Tatyana Nikolaevna Lappa. And on the 26th it was endorsed: “I authorize.”

During a trip to Saratov for the Christmas holidays, the young couple appeared before Tatyana’s parents as a fully formed married couple.

They lived by impulse, by mood, never saved and were almost always without money. She became the prototype of Anna Kirillovna in the story "Morphine". She was always there, nursing, supporting, helping.

They lived together for 11 years, until Fate brought Mikhail together with Love...

They met in January 1924 at an evening organized by the editors of "Nakanune" in honor of the writer Alexei Tolstoy.

Tatyana did not have literary talent, she was just a good person, but this was no longer enough for Bulgakov.

Lyubov Evgenievna Belozerskaya, on the contrary, had long been moving in literary circles - her then husband published his own newspaper “Free Thoughts” in Paris, and when they moved to Berlin, they together started publishing the pro-Soviet newspaper “Nakanune”, where essays and feuilletons were periodically published Bulgakov.

By the time of the meeting, Lyubov was already divorced from her second husband, but continued to actively participate in the literary life of Kyiv, where she and her husband moved after Berlin. When meeting with Bulgakov, she impressed him so much that the writer decided to divorce Tatyana.

The couple got married only a year after they met - on April 30, 1925. The happiness lasted only four years. The writer dedicated the story “Heart of a Dog” and the play “The Cabal of the Saint” to her. Bulgakov later admitted to his acquaintances that he never loved her.

Elena: Love forever...

Some called Elena Sergeevna a witch, others called her a muse, and this only confirms that Elena Shilovskaya-Bulgakova is one of the most mysterious women of our time.

They met in the apartment of the artist Moiseenko. Elena herself, many years later, would say about that meeting: “When I met Bulgakov by chance in the same house, I realized that this was my destiny, despite everything, despite the incredibly difficult tragedy of the breakup... we met and were close. It was fast, unusually quick, at least on my part, love for life..."

Sergeevna Nuremberg was born in 1893 in Riga. After the girl graduated from high school, her family moved to Moscow. In 1918, Elena married Yuri Neyolov. The marriage was unsuccessful - after two years, Elena left her husband for a military expert, and subsequently for Lieutenant General Yevgeny Shilovsky, whose wife she became at the end of 1920.

Did she love him? Outwardly, their family seemed quite prosperous - the spouses had a very warm relationship, a year after the wedding, their first child was born, the Shilovskys did not experience any financial difficulties. However, in letters to her sister, Elena complained that this family idyll was burdening her, that her husband was busy all day at work, and she missed her old life - meetings, changes in impressions, noise and fuss...

“I don’t know where to run…” she said sadly.

February 28, 1929 - it was this day that became a turning point in her fate. On this day she met Mikhail Bulgakov. For Bulgakov, everything became clear immediately - without her he could not live, breathe, exist. Elena Sergeevna suffered for almost two years. During this time, she did not go out alone, did not accept letters that Bulgakov passed on to her through mutual friends, and did not answer the phone. But the only time she had to go out was when she met him.

"I can not live without you". This meeting became decisive - the lovers decided to be together no matter what.

In February 1931, Shilovsky became aware of his wife’s affair. He took this news very hard. Threatening Bulgakov with a pistol, the enraged husband demanded that he immediately leave his wife alone. Elena was told that in the event of a divorce, both sons would remain with him, and she would lose the opportunity to see them.

A year and a half later, the lovers met again - and realized that further separation would simply kill them both. Shilovsky could only come to terms with it. On October 3, 1932, two divorces took place - Bulgakov from Belozerskaya and Shilovsky from Nuremberg. And already on October 4, 1932, lovers Mikhail and Elena got married.

They lived together for eight years - eight years of boundless love, tenderness and care for each other. In the fall of 1936, Bulgakov completed his most famous work - the novel "The Master and Margarita", the prototype of which was his Elena.

In 1939, a dark streak began in the life of the couple. Bulgakov's health was rapidly deteriorating, he was losing his sight and suffering from terrible headaches, for which he was forced to take morphine. On March 10, 1940, Mikhail Afanasyevich passed away.

Elena Sergeevna had difficulty making ends meet. She sold things, made a living from translations, worked as a typist, retyping manuscripts... She managed to receive her first fees for publishing manuscripts of her late husband only in the post-war years.

Elena Sergeevna outlived her beloved Mishenka by thirty years. She died on July 18, 1970 and was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery, next to her beloved.

The leitmotif of Margarita's mercy, mercy dictated by great love, runs through Bulgakov's entire novel The Master and Margarita. Her feeling is all-consuming and limitless. Therefore, the phrase in the title of my work accurately characterizes the history of the relationship between the Master and Margarita. I believe that only love that does not require anything in return can be called real. This applies to all love (and not just the relationship between a man and a woman): the love of children for their parents (and vice versa), love for friends and, in general, love for one’s neighbor. After all, this is exactly the kind of selfless love that Jesus Christ preached. The good deeds that we do, driven by love, benefit our neighbors, and sometimes the good we do comes back to us a hundredfold. But still, when doing good, one cannot be guided by selfish goals, because love does not imply the concept of “should” or the conclusion “if I help him, then at the right moment he will be obliged to help me.” All good deeds are performed only at the call of the heart.

So Margarita always acted, listening to the dictates of her own heart, and all her motives were sincere. For her, the Master contains the whole world, and the romance of her beloved contains the purpose of her life. Margarita is determined to do anything for the Master, and love inspires her to this determination. It is she who does wonderful things: Margarita is ready to go with the Master on his final journey, and in this act her self-sacrifice is most clearly manifested. She is ready to share the Master’s fate, she is even ready to make a deal with the devil in order to save her loved one. In addition, even after becoming a witch, she does not lose her good intentions. Margarita's love never required giving, she was a giver, not a taker. This is the essence of true love. It can't be any other way. And may God grant that those who deserve it experience such a real feeling. Every person has passions in their life. First, a spark ignites, and then it seems that it has happened - this is exactly the long-awaited high feeling. Sometimes the feeling of falling in love lasts a long time, sometimes illusions are shattered almost immediately. But true love, no matter how pompous it may sound, happens once every 100 years. This is the kind of love Bulgakov describes. This kind of love is described by Kuprin in the story “The Garnet Bracelet”. The only difference between the love stories depicted in these works is that in the novel “The Master and Margarita” this feeling is mutual.

I also believe that the phrase “Whoever loves must share the fate of the one he loves” is consonant with Saint-Exupery’s expression “We are responsible for those we have tamed.” We must be responsible for our feelings and, therefore, always share the fate of the people we love.

All of his wives were directly related to his works - some gave valuable advice about the storyline, some became the prototype for the main characters, some simply helped in organizational matters - he always felt the support of the one who was nearby. This was true exactly 88 years ago, when the Odessa magazine Shkval began publishing excerpts from his novel The White Guard. In the novel “The Master and Margarita” he put into Woland’s mouth the phrase that “he who loves must share the fate of the one he loves” and all his life he proved the correctness of this statement...

Tatiana: First love...

They met in the summer of 1908 - a friend of the future writer’s mother brought her niece Tasya Lappa from Saratov for the holidays. She was only a year younger than Mikhail, and the young man with great enthusiasm began to take care of the young lady - they walked a lot, went to museums, talked... They had a lot in common - despite her outward fragility, Tasya had a strong character and always had something to say , believed in luck.

Tasya felt at home in the Bulgakov family.

But the summer ended, Mikhail went to study in Kyiv. The next time he saw Tasya was only three years later - when he had the chance to go to Saratov, accompanying Tatyana’s grandmother. Now it’s her turn to act as a guide - show Bulgakov the city, walk through its streets, museums and talk-talk-talk...

The family accepted Mikhail... as a friend, but there was no question of marrying a poor student and a young schoolgirl. But a year later, Bulgakov returned again to the house of the manager of the State House, Nikolai Lappa... and found the right words that convinced the future father-in-law to send his daughter to study in Kyiv.

It should be noted that upon arrival in Kyiv, Tatyana had a serious conversation with the writer’s mother and about their relationship. But even here, the lovers managed to calm down Varvara Mikhailovna and explain that their union was not just a prank or a whim. And in March 1913, student Bulgakov submitted a petition addressed to the rector to the university office for permission to marry Tatyana Nikolaevna Lappa. And on the 26th it was endorsed: “I authorize.”

During a trip to Saratov for the Christmas holidays, the young couple appeared before Tatyana’s parents as a fully formed married couple. “Tasya” was a thing of the past, and now in front of them was “the student’s wife - Mrs. Tatyana Nikolaevna Bulgakova.”

They lived by impulse, by mood, never saved and were almost always without money. She became the prototype of Anna Kirillovna in the story "Morphine". She was always there, nursing, supporting, helping. They lived together for 11 years, until Fate brought Mikhail together with Love...

Love: Mature love...

They met in January 1924 at an evening organized by the editors of "Nakanune" in honor of the writer Alexei Tolstoy. Mikhail already felt what it was like to be a writer and was looking for his muse, capable of inspiring and directing his creative impulse in the right direction, capable of soberly assessing the manuscript and giving advice. Unfortunately, Tatyana did not have such a talent (or, indeed, any other talent related to literature). She was just a good person, but that was no longer enough for him.

Lyubov Evgenievna Belozerskaya, on the contrary, had long been moving in literary circles - her then husband published his own newspaper “Free Thoughts” in Paris, and when they moved to Berlin, they together started publishing the pro-Soviet newspaper “Nakanune”, where essays and feuilletons were periodically published Bulgakov.

By the time they met personally, Lyubov was already divorced from her second husband, but continued to actively participate in the literary life of Kyiv, where she and her husband moved after Berlin. When meeting with Bulgakov, she impressed him so much that the writer decided to divorce Tatyana.

The relationship between Mikhail and Lyubov resembled a creative union. Love helped him with storylines, was the first listener, reader. The couple got married only a year after they met - on April 30, 1925. The happiness lasted only four years. The writer dedicated the story “Heart of a Dog” and the play “The Cabal of the Saint” to her.

But on February 28, 1929, Fate prepared for him a meeting with his friend Lyubov - the one about whom the writer would later say: “I loved only the only woman, Elena Nuremberg...”

Elena: Love forever...

They met in the apartment of the artist Moiseenko. Elena herself, many years later, would say about that meeting: “When I met Bulgakov by chance in the same house, I realized that this was my destiny, despite everything, despite the incredibly difficult tragedy of the breakup... we met and were close. It was fast, unusually quick, at least on my part, love for life..."

They were both not free. Elena was married to her second husband, a deeply decent man, and raised two sons. Outwardly, the marriage was ideal. As a matter of fact, he really was like that - Evgeny Shilovsky, a hereditary nobleman, treated his wife with incredible trepidation and love. And she loved him... in her own way: “He is an amazing person, there is no one like him... I feel good, calm, comfortable. But Zhenya is busy almost the whole day... I am left alone with my thoughts, inventions, fantasies, unspent strength... I feel like this a quiet, family life is not quite for me... I want life, I don’t know where to run... my old self awakens in me with a love for life, for noise, for people, for meetings..."

The romance between Bulgakov and Shilovskaya arose suddenly and irrevocably. For both of them it was a difficult ordeal - on the one hand, crazy feelings, on the other - incredible pain for those whom they forced to suffer. They then dispersed and then returned. Elena did not touch his letters, did not answer calls, never went out alone - she wanted to save the marriage and not hurt her children.

But, apparently, you can’t escape fate. During her first independent walk, a year and a half after Bulgakov’s stormy explanation with her husband, she met Mikhail. And his first phrase was: “I can’t live without you!..” She couldn’t live without him either.

This time, Evgeny Shilovsky did not interfere with his wife’s desire to get a divorce. In his letter to his parents, he tried to justify his wife’s actions: “I would like you to correctly understand what happened. I do not blame Elena Sergeevna for anything and believe that she acted correctly and honestly. Our marriage, so happy in the past, has come to our natural end. We exhausted each other... Since Lucy had a serious and deep feeling for another person, she did the right thing by not sacrificing him... I am eternally grateful to her for the great happiness and joy of life that she gave me at the time ..."

Fate had prepared a difficult life for them, Elena became his secretary, his support. He became the meaning of life for her, and she became his life. She became the prototype of Margarita and remained with him until his death. When the writer's health deteriorated - doctors diagnosed him with hypertensive nephrosclerosis - Elena devoted herself completely to her husband and fulfilled the promise she made back in the early 1930s. Then the writer asked her: “Give me your word that I will die in your arms...”

The leitmotif of Margarita's mercy, mercy dictated by great love, runs through Bulgakov's entire novel The Master and Margarita. Her feeling is all-consuming and limitless. Therefore, the phrase in the title of my work accurately characterizes the history of the relationship between the Master and Margarita. I believe that only love that does not require anything in return can be called real. This applies to all love (and not just the relationship between a man and a woman): the love of children for their parents (and vice versa), love for friends and in general

Love for your neighbor. After all, this is exactly the kind of selfless love that Jesus Christ preached. The good deeds that we do, driven by love, benefit our neighbors, and sometimes the good we do comes back to us a hundredfold. But still, when doing good, one cannot be guided by selfish goals, because love does not imply the concept of “should” or the conclusion “if I help him, then at the right moment he will be obliged to help me.” All good deeds are performed only at the call of the heart.

So Margarita always acted, listening to the dictates of her own heart, and all her motives were sincere. For her, the Master contains the whole world, and the romance of her beloved contains the purpose of her life. Margarita is determined to do anything for the Master, and love inspires her to this determination. It is she who does wonderful things: Margarita is ready to go with the Master on his final journey, and in this act her self-sacrifice is most clearly manifested. She is ready to share the Master’s fate, she is even ready to make a deal with the devil in order to save her loved one. In addition, even after becoming a witch, she does not lose her good intentions. Margarita's love never required giving, she was a giver, not a taker. This is the essence of true love. It can't be any other way. And may God grant that those who deserve it experience such a real feeling. Every person has passions in their life. First, a spark ignites, and then it seems that it has happened - this is exactly the long-awaited high feeling. Sometimes the feeling of falling in love lasts a long time, sometimes illusions are shattered almost immediately. But true love, no matter how pompous it may sound, happens once every 100 years. This is the kind of love Bulgakov describes. This kind of love is described by Kuprin in the story “The Garnet Bracelet”. The only difference between the love stories depicted in these works is that in the novel “The Master and Margarita” this feeling is mutual.

I also believe that the phrase “Whoever loves must share the fate of the one he loves” is consonant with Saint-Exupery’s expression “We are responsible for those we have tamed.” We must be responsible for our feelings and, therefore, always share the fate of the people we love.