The feuilleton contains sketches of metropolitan life at the height of the New Economic Policy, made under the slogan that resulted in the final lines: "In order, give us a foothold, and we will move the globe." The feuilleton is also interesting for Bulgakov's attitude to the new revolutionary art, expressed in the "Biomechanical Chapter" of the feuilleton, which describes the staging of the Belgian playwright Fernand Crommelinck's play "The Magnanimous Cuckold" in the GITIS theater by Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold: "... In a plucked, peeled, drafty theater, instead of a stage, there is a hole (curtain, of course, there is no trace). In the depths - a bare brick wall with two coffin windows ...
