The porcelain saucer presented in the exhibition belonged to Mikhail Bulgakov’s second wife Lyubov Belozerskaya. She lived with Bulgakov for five years in the apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya street. In her memoirs, Belozerskaya described how she and her husband gradually furnished the apartment. Six chairs upholstered in cornflower-blue repp, and a sliding gate legged table were bought from “half-crazy old woman, whose relatives had gone to a distant land, leaving at her disposal a large and fully furnished apartment.” The sofa, which the Bulgakovs jokingly called a “hook”, was bought from friends. The rest of the necessary furniture was gradually bought in thrift stores.

The saucer belonging to Lyubov Belozerskaya was presented to the museum by the artist Alexander Kurushin, who was a friend of Lyubov Yevgenyevna in the last years of her life. Kurushin illustrated one of the editions of the novel “The Master and Margarita”, was a great admirer of Bulgakov’s work and collected documents about the writer.

Close friends came to visit the Bulgakovs: the philologist Nikolay Lyamin and his wife the artist Natalia Ushakova, theater model maker Sergey Topleninov, poet Vladimir Dolgorukov, screenwriter Sergey Yermolinsky and others.

Besides close friends and acquaintances, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya hosted budding writers who were eager to get a review or advice from the famous playwright. Lyubov Yevgenyevna recalled several such visits,

Lyubov Yevgenyevna recalled that Mikhail Afanasyevich was indulgent to everyone who sought his literary advice, even the strangest visitors. Mikhail Afanasyevich arranged tickets to his plays “The Days of the Turbins” and “Zoyka’s Apartment” for the two enthusiastic theater students who had written an unsuccessful dramatization of the story “The Fatal Eggs” and sat in the Bolshaya Pirogovskaya for five and a half hours. At that time, it was almost impossible to obtain tickets for Bulgakov’s plays.