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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov’s favorite was a dog named Bud, who appeared in the house thanks to Lyubov Evgenievna.

One day, while standing in line at a grocery store, she saw a man with a big-eyed, shaggy puppy in his arms and asked what he would do with it?

The man replied that he planned to take him to the vivisection department for experiments. The woman asked the stranger to wait and rushed home to secure the consent of Mikhail Afanasyevich (he immediately agreed) and pick up the dog.

At that time, Bulgakov was working on the play “Molière,” so the dog received a nickname in honor of the main character’s servant.

The dog quickly became everyone's favorite and a full member of the family.

Lyubov Evgenievna recalled: “I even hung another card on the front door under M.A.’s card, where it was written: “Bud of Bulgakov. Call twice."

This misled the financial inspector who came to us, who asked M.A.: “Do you live with your brother?” After which Bouton's business card was removed."

And in Bulgakov’s prose the most poignant moments are connected precisely with dogs. I immediately remember, of course, the “dearest dog” Sharik from “The Heart of a Dog” and Pontius Pilate’s devoted, pointy-eared dog Bang, who shared twelve thousand moons of loneliness in the mountains with his owner (“whoever loves must share the fate of the one he loves”).

Less well known is the dog Jacques from Bulgakov’s science fiction play “Adam and Eve”:

"Efrosimov. <...> "Jacques illuminates my life... (Pause.) Jacques is my dog. I see four people walking, carrying a puppy and laughing. It turns out - to hang. And I paid them twelve rubles so that they would not hang him. Now he is an adult and I will never be separated from him."

The dog turns out to be a true friend in Bulgakov’s artistic world.