Night walk in the footsteps of the master and margarita. Walking tour "Romantic journey in the footsteps of the novel" The Master and Margarita During the tour, we learned

Remember where it's from? “… What an interesting city!… Isn't it?…” “I like Rome better, sir…” “Yes, it's a matter of taste… Why is that smoke there, on the boulevard? And this is the burning house of writers, Griboyedov ... ". M. A. Bulgakov. "Master and Margarita". Attentive readers and even literary critics have long recognized that Moscow in this work is not a decoration, but a full participant in the events. By Bulgakov's places Let's go on an excursion together today, my reader!

Well, of course, the veranda of the mysterious Pashkov house, where Moscow mystics no longer pretended to gather for spiritualistic seances, was the best fit for Woland’s meeting with the former tax collector Levy Matvey, organized by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, to decide the fate of the Master. As a preamble, I’ll tell you that according to the city legend of the eighteenth century, it is there, in the Pashkov house, that evil spirits gather, and the Prince of Darkness himself, flying to every big great city once every hundred years, admires Moscow from the turret of the Pashkov house.

Why not take a walk together in those corners of the old capital, where traces of the heroes of the novel and its amazing events are hidden in the shade of buildings and trees ... Either invented, or recorded by the author? What should I start with?

Of course, from the spark that kindled the fire of events. Remember? Yes, remember how a tram took off from Ermolaevsky towards Bronnaya and inevitably, by the will of fate, Berlioz's head was thrown onto the cobblestone slope of Patriarchal Alley. Let's try to find where it could happen?

Patriarch's ponds - the former Goat swamp - are still considered a mystical place. And the bench where the heroes of The Master and Margarita sat is considered the most popular place on the Patriarch's Ponds. It is only bitter that it is not singled out and not marked in any way, just as there is no monument to Bulgakov. The fabled goat and the hard-to-ear bear here create a clear dissonance to the inaudible mysterious music. Calculating the point where the apricot “gave a persistent smell of a hairdresser” is quite simple: if we came from the Garden Ring and turned onto Malaya Bronnaya, we walk a little more and find ourselves at a tiny intersection, where, nevertheless, there is a traffic light. On the left is a modern “beautiful” house of unthinkable complexity and luxury, lurid in places, like an anniversary cream cake – the Patriarch house. At this very intersection, Annushka spilled sunflower oil ... The tram stop, however, has long been gone, as well as the barrier, but cars fly out of the corner like crazy, so the unkind glory of the place is supported in the modern road reading. And if we, leaving behind the right elbow the Patriarchs, and on the left - Malaya Bronnaya, at the very "end of the water" the leftmost bench is the very one where the action of the novel began.

By the way, the ghost of a black cat still haunts the Patriarchs. locals they say that deep after midnight a huge black spot flops down from the wall of the house, and a huge black monster alternately on two and four legs wanders around. The rumor about this ghost "staggered" near the Goat's swamp since the 19th century, so Bulgakov could well have "picked up" somewhere urban legend and call the cat Behemoth, reviving it from a beautiful Moscow city tale in literary life ...

Ah, those benches! These Moscow benches... You have seen everything, you know everything. In the Alexander Garden, Margarita Nikolaevna was sitting on one of the benches, placing herself so that she could see the Manege. A little later, Azazello, leaning back on the back of this bench, will close the large carved word “Nyura” on it. Nothing is accidental... I know this bench. And you?…

“Love jumped out in front of us, like a killer jumping out of the ground in a dark alley. And instantly hit us both. This is how lightning strikes. This is how a Finnish knife strikes.

In accordance with the route laid out by Bulgakov, Margarita turned off Tverskaya into an alley and walked along this long alley. According to the most common version, she walked along Bryusov Lane. Perhaps an amazing meeting took place where the monument to Aram Khachaturian now flaunts.

Mansurovsky lane, building nine. It is this tiny wooden house that best fits the description: “from the yard, several steps led to small basement rooms with a stove ... “Ah, in winter I rarely saw someone’s black boots in the window and heard the crunch of snow under them. There was always a fire burning in my stove. But suddenly spring came, and through the muddy glass I saw at first bare, and then lilac bushes dressed in green ... ".The house, preserved by some miracle of the genius of the Master and the glory of Bulgakov's work, in the immediate vicinity of the urban appetites of the capital's "golden mile" stands exactly as it was described. And if snowplows did not remove precipitation in winter, its windows would also be blocked by snowdrifts. Let's look at it, turn from Prechistenka?

Evening is falling... The first lights are lit on the Arbat. Something flickered and went out in the mirror glass of the shop window, an indistinct image flashed, the air swayed, a lantern blinked opposite, clinking with frosted glass. How mysterious and unusual everything is at this time of the height of summer ... Shouldn't we slow down our hasty step, maybe look around? And suddenly ... Remember?

“And what are these steps on the stairs? ... And they are going to arrest us. Oh! .. Well, well .... " A bad apartment is the most realistic address of all that is in the novel. Bulgakov's houses on the Garden Ring - just a bit of a walk from the Satire Theater towards the Patriarchs - one of the most beautiful. This house with “profitable apartments” was built by the wealthy homeowner Yakov Pigit, who also owned the Dukat tobacco factory. One of the huge apartments at the peak of the "compression" was turned into a communal termite by the builders of the new way of life. Not a “house-commune” or a “factory-kitchen” in the style of constructivism, but not far from it. Bulgakov and his first wife Tasechka huddled in the little room here when they arrived in Moscow. They were simply settled here by relatives. Life was by modern concepts unbearable - a corridor with many doors, a common kitchen with smoky stoves and gossip squabbles. A semi-crazy Komsomol member was running, whom the local inhabitants called "Annushka the Plague". Then, by a literary plan, she was entrusted with pouring oil ... And even the manager of the house, a swindler, who constantly demanded bribes from Bulgakov for his silence - after all, the young doctor lived on these square meters, in fact, illegally. And the greedy man, on his passion for banknotes, "got caught" in the novel in the cleverly placed nets of Koroviev, and then, with dollars, already, therefore, into the hands of the competent authorities. Thought, especially writing, is material. How do you know if the real house manager later suffered the same fate for his sins?

But let's go into the courtyard of Bulgakov's house. The farthest left entrance, we go up without an elevator to the top floor and ... we are in a small museum. There is practically nothing to see there. The apartment is empty. Except that huge photographs from the series "The Master and Margarita" decorate the interior. The graffiti on the stairs is much more interesting. The most valuable, perhaps, is the address. Bolshaya Sadovaya, 32 bis, apartment 50. Here the artist Woland settled on Berlioz Square with his troupe. Perhaps, again, the author's thought "revenged" the writer's neighbors, placing side by side with them evil spirit? The easiest thing, of course, is to find the theater of Satire, that same variety show, from where, after a citizen in some pantaloons, they then ran along Tverskaya, jumping out exactly in their obscene form onto the huge current Mayakovsky Square, where there was absolutely nowhere to hide. Where they served wonderful “sirloin and perch a la naturel” ... There, in Griboedov’s house, now the Gorky Literary Institute, and not Massolit’s restaurant.

Well, let's move on? “All five rooms on the top floor of the mansion, this whole apartment, which would be the envy of tens of thousands of people in Moscow, the three-leaf window in the lantern, open, but drawn with a curtain, shone with a mad electric light.” There are eight houses in the city that allegedly belonged to Margarita. Maybe Spiridonievka, maybe Ostozhenka? But the house of the architect Solovyov in Khlebny Lane is most suitable for the nature of the events.

You can see the mysterious lanes of ancient Moscow, along which Woland, Behemoth, Azazello and other heroes of the novel "The Master and Margarita" walked, on a tour of Bulgakov's Moscow. Offers fascinating stories, interesting routes and unknown details that will complement the great work of the writer.

We offer tours:

• pedestrian - if you are ready to explore every centimeter of the mysterious nooks and crannies;
• individual - the walk is conducted by a reliable guide, all the stories of which will be only for you;
• night - for those who are not afraid to meet mystical characters in the dark;
• on the famous red tram "302-BIS" - so that the impressions are the most vivid.

Where Margarita flew - walks in the "Bulgakov" places of Moscow

Our route will start near the Mayakovskaya metro station, where the Aurora Garden is located not far from the capital's Satire Theater. It was there that Bulgakov placed the Variety Theater, in which the sorcerer Woland shone. The prototype of the theater was the Moscow music hall, which existed for only a decade in the 1920s and 1930s. last century.

• Bad apartment. If you leave the Aurora Garden and walk a couple of hundred meters along the Garden Ring, then you will come to her. There is a sign with the name "Museum of Bulgakov's House" 302-BIS, and in the second entrance of the old Moscow courtyard-well, on the topmost, fifth, floor, you will find an excursion to the famous apartment No. 50. An old staircase with gentle narrow-span steps leads to it, the walls of the entrance are painted with drawings of visitors, the small interfloor windows have preserved the flavor of bygone times.
• House of Margaret. The researchers did not agree on which house, according to the description, most accurately matches the one where the Master's beloved lived, so on the tour you can see the most identical ones. Bulgakov liked to combine the features of several objects in one. As you know, Margarita and her husband occupied the upper part of the house in one of the Arbat lanes, there was a garden and a fence nearby, while a window overlooked the garden, through which Margarita liked to look. The first building is located on St. Spiridonovka. The second similar house is located in Maly Rzhevsky Lane, the third - in Maly Vlasevsky, and the fourth - on Ostozhenka. You can decide for yourself which building is more reminiscent of Margarita's house.
• The place where the Master and Margarita first met. If on a tour of the "Bulgakov" places of Pushkin Square turn to Tverskaya and go along the odd side, then you will see Bolshoy Gnezdnikovsky Lane. According to most opinions, it was here that the main characters of the novel first met. Bolshoy Gnezdnikovsky is the most crooked of the nearby lanes, which was determined in the book. In addition, here the writer once met his wife, who became the prototype of Margarita.

And on a walking tour you will see that famous corner of Malaya Bronnaya, where there was a tram turnstile, walk to the Herzen House, which became the prototype of MASSOLIT, follow Margarita’s flight route and get acquainted with other amazing places of “Bulgakov’s” Moscow.

"Follow us, reader!" We will show you the Moscow in which strange stories, people disappeared, cats of unreal size wandered, loved ones met, along which the heroes of the novel "The Master and Margarita" walked

Excursion route

Patriarch's Ponds, the route of the unfortunate poet Bezdomny, who is trying to catch up with the mysterious trinity, a house with a "bad" apartment and a bench on which Berlioz and Ivan Bezdomny had a lively conversation, Margarita's mansion, the Master's cellar, the building of the former MASSOLIT, the crossroads where "Annushka" stopped, night Arbat and Novodevichy cemetery, Pashkov House and Arbat lanes...

On our tour you will learn

Did naked people really walk around Moscow?

Why did Mikhail Afanasyevich simply hate the "bad" apartment?

We will see the very place where Berlioz was beheaded by a tram

The route by which Ivan Bezdomny pursued the murderer of Misha Berlioz

Why are there 18 mansions in Moscow that are the prototype of Margarita Niklaevna's house?

The place where Ivan Bezdomny bathed in the Moscow River

What is now in the house of MASSOLIT and the Griboedov restaurant?

Who now lives in the basement of the master?

Why is 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street NOT Bulgakov's first address in Moscow?

How are Mikhail Bulgakov and Nikolai Gogol connected?

Where did Woland talk to Levi Matthew?

Tour ticket prices

• Excursion cost: 1150 and 950 (preferential) rubles.
• The cost of a group ticket for 5 people: 4200 rubles.

What's included in the price:

Visit to NP CPC "Bulgakovskiy Dom"

Bus rental

Presenter's work

ADDITIONALLY paid for tea, coffee, food during a break (20 minutes) in the Coffeehouse during the night tour.

Additional charge (for groups):

If your home, organization or school is located outside the Garden Ring, the bus will be charged extra.

The cost of an hour of a bus up to 19 seats is 1500 rubles, from 20 seats - 2000 rubles.

If the school is located inside the 3rd transport ring, then 1 hour of delivery is added to the cost of the excursion, beyond the 3rd transport ring - 2 hours of delivery, 15 km. outside the Moscow Ring Road are considered as + hour of the bus.

A nice addition to the tour can be (for groups):

1. A visit to the cafe "Skacloth-Samobranka", tea drinking (130-190 rubles per person) and a master class (250-300 rubles per person). .
2. A complex lunch in one of the cafes or restaurants of our partners (cost from 350 rubles per person). Menu on this page.
3. Professional photographer during the tour. 6000 rub.

FAQ

1. "Will there be exits and walks from the bus during the bus tour?" - yes, during bus tours there are exits and walks lasting 20 minutes. In this regard, we kindly ask you to dress warmly and wear comfortable shoes

2. "Can I take food and drinks on the bus with me?" - Unfortunately, eating on the bus is prohibited by the rules of transportation. Of course, you can take water on the bus with you, the only request is that the bottle be closed, that the cap is screwed so that the water does not spill out while the bus is moving. We also draw your attention to the fact that you cannot drink tea and coffee in plastic cups on the bus. In a thermos, which has a screw cap, these drinks can be brought with you.

3. "And the night tour, which goes on for 5 hours at night - won't we get tired? We won't want to sleep?" - Our guide will do everything possible and impossible so that you are not tired during the tour, so that you are interested! Of course, we recommend getting enough sleep before the night program. However, during night program we have a coffee break, during which we go to a 24-hour cafe in the center of Moscow, where you can drink coffee or tea, relax a little and cheer up.