The Secret Diary of Mikhail Bulgakov

Present day. Orest Volin receives an order to investigate a murder case in the Moscow Bulgakov Museum. At the museum, Volin meets only one of his employees—some Kateryna. From her words it follows that when she came in the morning for work, she found a dead body with a knife in its back. Scared, Kateryna runs away at first, but then she returns to the crime scene—and discovers that the body is gone without a trace.

During questioning, Volin establishes that it was most likely not a murder at all, but a cruel prank.

The case should be closed—however, in a strange way, this story echoes in Volin’s life. As you know, during a previous investigation he found a box with encrypted diaries of a certain State Councillor Nestor Vasilyevich Zagorsky. To decipher the diaries, Volin turned to his old acquaintance, Major-General of the KGB Sergey Sergeyevich Vorontsov. The first notebook was deciphered earlier—now it’s time for the second.

Unexpectedly, it turns out not to be just Zagorsky’s notebook, but an unpublished diary of Mikhail Bulgakov describing events of 1918–1921. How did the writer’s diary end up in Zagorsky’s hands? What secrets does it hide? You’ll find out in the second audiobook of the ANONYMUS series—“The Secret Diary of Mikhail Bulgakov.”