The name "Theatrical Novel" determines the main content of the work - the novel of the protagonist, playwright Maksudov, with the Independent Theater, and the novel as a literary creation dedicated to the theatrical world and remaining in the posthumous notes of the playwright who committed suicide. The plot of "Theatrical Novel" was largely based on the conflict between Bulgakov and the main director of the Art Theater K.S. Stanislavsky (1863-1938 regarding the production of "Cabals of the Holy" at the Moscow Art Theater and the subsequent removal of the play by the theater after the condemning article of the newspaper Pravda. The prototype of Maksudov's play "Black Snow" was "Days of the Turbins."