I've only ventured slightly into Russian litarature (English translations thereof) with "The death of Ivan Ilych" and "the dream of a rediculous man". I consider the former to be one of the best books I have read this year, and would like to give TMaM a try but always have trouble deciding on a translation.
The Master and Margarita Paperback – March 19, 1996 by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Diana Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator)
Of course, Amazon will provide reviews for all translations in one big bucket so it's hard to know which one gets the best review.
You can go to sub reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1lngmm/which_the_mas...
I found the notes in the Annotated Lolita [2] very helpful, unfortunately I haven't really found an annotated version of M&M (beyond what's in [1]).
[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108271
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Lolita-Revised-Updated/dp/0...
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-...