"Master and Margarita" and "Poem without a hero": paradoxes of fiction time and space

An idea to regard the novel by Bulgakov as a key to decipher the poem by A.Akhmatova is considered in the article. It is proved that the specificity of the chronotope of the novel Master and Margarita influenced the unusual solving of the Time-Space problem done by A.Akhmatova in Poem without a hero. Typologically close related processes in the authors' creative works indicate spiritual crisis of the epoch, its mascarade essence expression.