THE DEVELOPMENT OF A. S. PUSHKIN'S <i>BRONZE HORSEMAN</i> INTERTEXT IN THE NOVEL BY M. A. BULGAKOV <i>MASTER AND MARGARITA</i>
The article, in the light of the perspective tasks of studying of Pushkin''s traditions in M. A. Bulgakov's work, the aspect of the novel Master and Margarita previously unlearned in literary criticism is subject to systematic consideration, connected with the development of the intertext of Pushkin''s poem <sub>В</sub>ronze Horseman in it, proposed <sub>а</sub> modern approaches to its interpretation, including a change in the established paradigm of of understanding the image of «Poor Eugeny». The article emphasizes deep immersion M. A. Bulgakov in a philosophical sense of the Pushkin myth, reflected in the organic nature of the rolls of his novel with the poet's peak, developing the subject of confrontation between the individual and the authorities, and the various levels of this conflict for story lines Joshua - Pontius Pilate; Master - modern government; Master - Voland. The autobiography of Bulgakov's creation, embodied in the Pushkin's principle of the «Petersburg story» and including the foresight of his destiny, is noted in the work. Attention is drawn to the nature of relevance for the writer who reflected in his Master and Margarita his historical time, the semantics, and artistic solutions of the poem of Alexander Pushkin about Peter and Eugeny, the eternal nature of the thematic range of the novel, which he inherited from his great predecessor, M. A. Bulgakov, giving him the unique author''s interpretation noted in the article.