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«Берегись трамвая!» (Еще раз о возможных источниках сцены гибели Берлиоза)
In his works M. S. Petrovsky assumes that the source of the scene of Berlioz’s death in M. A. Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” was an episode of the A. I. Kuprin’s story “Every wish”. We suppose that one can regard, as a nearly even more important pretext of the ending of chapter 3 of “The Master and Margarita”, a “tram episode” from the story of S. D. Krzhizhanovsky “Materials for the biography of Gorgis Katafalaki”. We pay special attention to one of the details common for Krzhizhanovsky and Bulgakov — a sign “Mind the tram!”, which is also mentioned, particularly, in the N. N. Nikandrov’s novel “Way to a woman”. The parallels between Nikandrov’s and Bulgakov’s novels have already been noted by the scholars; presumably, not only a warning sign, but also a mention of the deserted boulevard alley should be added to their list.