Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova

Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova (in Russian: ; 21 October 1893 - 18 July 1970) was a Soviet author and intellectual. In collaboration with her husband, Mikhail Bulgakov, she participated in the writing of The Master and Margarita, a central work of Russian literature. Additionally, she is depicted in the novel as the character Margarita.

Bulgakova continued the work of writing and editing the text after her husband's death in March 1940. She published the first edition, although censored by Soviet authorities, in 1941. She was one of the first dissenting authors in the USSR. She died in Moscow in 1970.

Biography She was born on 21 October 1893, in Riga as the daughter of . Her family was connected to the Moscow theater world; for example, her sister Olga worked as a secretary for Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. Between 1933 and 1940, she kept a diary, which is useful for reconstructing her life, that of Mikhail Bulgakov, and the Soviet artistic world.

Bulgakova supported her husband against censorship and press campaigns orchestrated by Stalin against him. While the bulk of the work was undertaken by her husband, it was a shared creative process, as she was his muse, and he resumed writing after marrying her. and even added text in many places. She completed and edited the work in less than a year.

Later life and death Bulgakova remained connected to the Soviet intellectual, and even dissident, circles, receiving visits from figures such as Anna Akhmatova between 1942 and 1944. She died on 18 July 1970, in Moscow.