Chapter 1. Never talk to strangers

A very brief retelling of the novel "The Master and Margarita".

A foreign professor of black magic, Woland, stops in the capital with his unusual retinue: the cat Behemoth, the knight-killer Azazello and Koroviev. With their appearance, the city is shaken by a series of mystical events. At the same time, a romance develops between the married Margarita and the poor writer Master, who composed a unique manuscript about the last days of Jesus on earth.

The lovers are separated, but Margarita does Woland a favor - she becomes the queen at Satan’s ball. For this, the dark ruler returns her lover straight from the psychiatric clinic, where he languished because of a vile slander.

In parallel, the novel includes a book written by the Master and telling about the events in Ancient Yershalaim - the last days and the crucifixion of Yeshua Ha-Nozri, the prototype of Christ.

Table of contents

• Part 1 Chapter 1. Never talk to strangers
• Chapter 2. Pontius Pilate
• Chapter 3. Seventh proof
• Chapter 4. The Chase
• Chapter 5. There was an affair in Griboedov
• Chapter 6. Schizophrenia, as was said
• Chapter 7. Bad apartment
• Chapter 8. The duel between the professor and the poet
• Chapter 9. Koroviev's things
• Chapter 10. News from Yalta
• Chapter 11. Ivan's split
• Chapter 12. Black magic and its exposure
• Chapter 13. The appearance of a hero
• Chapter 14. Glory to the Rooster!
• Chapter 15. Nikanor Ivanovich's dream
• Chapter 16. Execution
• Chapter 17. Restless day
• Chapter 18. Unlucky Visitors

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A summary of the novel “The Master and Margarita” in parts and chapters.

The novel “The Master and Margarita” consists of two parts, and each of its 32 chapters has its own title.

PART 1.

Chapter 1. Never talk to strangers.

May. 30s of the XX century. Moscow. Mikhail Berlioz and Ivan Bezdomny stroll along the Patriarch's ponds. The friends meet the foreign professor Woland, whom the devil pretends to be. An argument and conversation ensues between them about the existence of God, Jesus Christ and Satan. Woland begins to talk about Pontius Pilate.

Author: Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov

Chapter 2. Pontius Pilate.

It's spring in ancient Yershalaim. Pontius Pilate gets acquainted with the case of Yeshua Ha-Nozri, who is accused of causing unrest and inciting the people to revolt against the authorities and the temple. Pilate understands that the wandering philosopher is not guilty, but out of fear for his position, he sentences him to execution.

Chapter 3. Seventh proof.

Woland completes his narrative by claiming that he himself witnessed the events. He insists that God, Christ and the devil have always existed. And proof of this fact is not needed. Berlioz hurries to report the crazy professor to the police, but dies under the wheels of a tram, not paying attention to Woland’s prediction.

Chapter 4. The chase.

Berlioz's body was sent to the morgue. The poet Ivan is trying to pursue the black magician and his minions. Having failed, Bezdomny heads to MASSOLIT.

Chapter 5. It was about Griboyedov.

There is a scandal in Griboyedov's restaurant. The poet, a member of the literary association, appeared in the middle of the evening practically wearing what his mother gave birth and started a row. Nobody believes Bezdomny’s stories about an insidious foreign killer who urgently needs to be caught. The poet is twisted and sent to a psychiatric hospital.

Chapter 6. Schizophrenia, as was said.

The homeless man was taken to the clinic of Professor Stravinsky. Here he is trying to prove that he is right, but the more he speaks, the more, in a strange way, he becomes convinced of the implausibility of his own words. The poet is assigned to ward 117 and diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Chapter 7. Bad apartment.

On Thursday morning, Variety director Stepan Bogdanovich Likhodeev meets in his bed in apartment No. 50 on Sadovaya Street and sees an unknown person who declares that he is an artist and will live in his apartment during the theater tour. Likhodeev does not remember how he entered into an agreement with Woland, and at the sight of the foreigner’s retinue he completely loses consciousness. Stepan comes to his senses on the seashore in Yalta.

Chapter 8. The duel between the professor and the poet.

The poet Homeless meets a new day in a psychiatric clinic. He argues heatedly with Professor Stravinsky, telling him about a strange acquaintance with a foreign magician and the suspicious death of Berlioz. The doctor insists on treatment.

Chapter 9. Koroviev's jokes.

The chairman of the housing association of the house on Sadovaya Street, Nikanor Ivanovich, pays a visit to apartment No. 50. There he is greeted by Koroviev, who asks to rent out the apartment at a very favorable rate. Barefoot agrees and takes the money. Koroviev makes an anonymous call to the police. Law enforcement agencies charge Nikanor Ivanovich with currency speculation. Dollars are found in his apartment. It was Koroviev’s rubles that miraculously turned into foreign currency. The housekeeper has been arrested.

Chapter 10. News from Yalta.

The financial director of the theater, Rimsky, and the administrator, Varenukha, are trying to find Likhodeev. Telegrams come from him from Yalta, the authenticity of which his colleagues do not believe. Varenukha decides to write a statement to the police, but on the way he is neutralized and taken to apartment No. 50 by Koroviev and Behemoth.

Chapter 11. Ivan's split.

The poet Bezdomny is trying to file a statement with the police. Due to the improbability of events, he falls into despair. As darkness falls, a male figure appears on the balcony of his room.

Chapter 12. Black magic and its exposure.

Variety is sold out. The concert program is performed by the professor of black magic and his trusted retinue. It rains money over the audience, and the cat Behemoth tears off the head of the entertainer. Then the magicians open a ladies' shop and offer women to change their old dresses to new ones. The audience is impressed, and Mr. Sempleyarov insists on the promised exposure of incredible tricks. But Volan exposes him instead, telling him about his infidelity to his wife. During the ensuing scandal, the actors and all the props disappear from the stage without a trace.

Chapter 13. The appearance of a hero.

A guest, a fellow clinic patient, comes into Bezdomny’s room. The guest calls himself Master. Ivan tells the stranger about his meeting with Woland, and he explains to the poet that the professor is the devil in the guise of a man. Then the Master tells Ivan his story. He wrote a novel about Pontius Pilate, but the literary world did not accept his brainchild. Because of this, the failed writer suffered a nervous shock and lost contact with his beloved woman, Margarita. Having finished the story, the Master leaves the Homeless Man’s room.

Chapter 14. Glory to the Rooster!

The devil's show is over and the audience is leaving the theater. Dresses, handbags, stockings and other feminine joys acquired during the performance, to the horror of the ladies, dissolve right on their bodies. The fair sex, left in negligee, scatters through the streets. Rimsky locks himself in his office and the ghostly Varenukha and the naked vampire Gella show up to him. Fortunately, a rooster crows and the “evil spirits” fly out the window. In an instant, the financial director, gray with fear, urgently leaves for St. Petersburg.

Chapter 15. Nikanor Ivanovich's dream.

The chairman of the house management, Bosov, was arrested for currency speculation (Chapter 9), but the police came to the conclusion that the detainee was mentally ill. Nikanor Ivanovich is sent to a mental hospital and he ends up in ward No. 119, where he has a nightmare. It’s as if he’s one of the spectators at the theater, and the entertainer accuses everyone of illegal currency trafficking. The housekeeper shouts that it is not his fault and wakes up. Then he receives an injection of sleeping pills and falls asleep again.

Chapter 16. Execution.

Ancient Yershalaim, Bald Mountain. Preparations are underway for the execution of three criminals. Levi Matthew appears. He watches the execution take place. The disciple Yeshua feels guilty before his teacher and sincerely grieves over his fate. With the onset of darkness, under a thunderstorm, he runs to the crosses, cuts the ropes and carries away the body of Ga-Nozri.

Chapter 17. Restless day.

Friday was crazy from the very morning. Accountant Lastochkin took the rubles earned from yesterday's concert to the entertainment commission. But in the reception room he will see a sobbing secretary, and a talking suit in the boss’s chair. Then Lastochkin goes to the branch of the commission, but even there he encounters extraordinary disgrace - all his employees sing songs in chorus without stopping. The “singers” are loaded into cars and sent to a mental hospital. When Lastochkin finally manages to get to the financial institution without incident, Russian money in his hands turns into currency. The confused accountant is arrested by the police.

Chapter 18. Unlucky visitors.

The uncle of the late chairman of MASSOLIT, Poplavsky, comes to Moscow from Kyiv. He wants to inherit and have Berlioz's apartment at his disposal. However, Woland’s retinue meets him in the rooms. The formidable Azazello lowers his cunning relative from the stairs and strongly recommends that he not show up in Moscow again. Following Poplavsky, the manager of the buffet at the Sokov Theater shows up at the apartment with claims.

He tries to show Woland the counterfeit money that people used to pay after the concert. There is a shortage in his cash register. But in front of the professor, the counterfeits again turn into real rubles. Koroviev tells Sokov that in 9 months he will die of cancer. The barman runs to the doctor, but they find no signs of illness in him. To celebrate, Sokov pays the doctor 30 rubles, which, after he leaves, turn into bottle labels.

PART 2.

Chapter 19. Margarita.

The reader gets to know Margarita and her story. This beautiful woman is 30 years old and in a successful marriage. She is wealthy, lives in a beautiful apartment, but is completely unhappy. One day fate crosses her path with the Master and they begin a secret romance. Margarita blossoms, she has learned true love. After the failure to publish the master's manuscript, he disappears from her life. During a walk to Margarita, a stranger sits down on a bench - Azazello. He asks the woman to visit Woland. The reward will be information about the missing Master. Azazello gives Margarita a jar of cream, which the woman must apply to her entire body at half past ten in the evening and then wait for the phone call.

Chapter 20. Cream.

Having fulfilled Azazello’s request, Margarita smeared herself with cream. Under the influence of the magic remedy, she gained a surge of strength, gave all her beautiful things to the housekeeper Natasha and wrote a farewell note to her husband. The cream turned the woman into a witch who could fly. The phone rings and Azazello tells Margarita that she has to go. Having straddled the floor brush, light and happy Margarita flies over the night streets of Moscow.

Chapter 21. Flight.

Margarita spread with cream becomes invisible. She finds Latunsky’s apartment in a luxurious building, whose criticism she hates with every fiber of her soul, and breaks dishes, breaks furniture, and causes a flood. Satisfied with revenge, Margarita flies further and notices her servant Natasha, flying astride a hog. The girl admits that she used the cream and smeared it on her neighbor’s forehead, turning him into a hog.

Chapter 22. By candlelight.

After having a dedication dinner on the river bank, Margarita and Azazello arrive at the house of the late Berlioz. There the woman meets Woland and the rest of his retinue. They explain to her that today is the spring ball, and the ball needs a hostess. The hostess can only be a native Muscovite with the name Margarita.

Chapter 23. Satan's Great Ball.

Margarita is being prepared for a gala event. At midnight the guests begin to arrive. Margarita greets each of them, the guests kiss her knee and start dancing. All those who arrived rise from the ashes for this night, each of them is a whole story. Margarita sympathizes with the unfortunate Frida, a girl who killed her own child, and promises to ask Satan for her. Among the guests appears Baron Meigel, a spy and provocateur. The sneak is punished by the devil's retinue. The ball ends. Margarita was dead tired, but she never complained once during the entire reception.

Chapter 24. Extraction of the Master.

Woland is pleased with the ball, he is ready to fulfill Margarita’s every wish. She asks for Frida and absolves the child killer herself. Satan again asks what Margarita herself wants. And at her request, he returns the Master to her right in his hospital pajamas. As a farewell souvenir, Woland gives Margarita a precious horseshoe and sends the lovers to their apartment.

Chapter 25. How the procurator tried to save Judas.

Yershalaim. The head of the procurator's secret service arrives at his call. Pontius Pilate asks his faithful Afranius to “take care” of the safety of Judas, who contributed to the death of Ha-Nozri. The veiled request conceals a task to eliminate the traitor who first sheltered Yeshua Ha-Nozri in his home and then handed him over to the authorities. Afranius follows the order exactly.

Chapter 26. Burial.

The procurator has a dream in which he saved Yeshua from execution. But after waking up, everything falls into place. Afranius arrives and reports the death of Judas from Kiriath. Pilate calls Matthew Levi to his place and offers him a good place of duty. But Levi Matvey does not want to deal with the person responsible for the death of Ha-Nozri.

Chapter 27. The end of apartment No. 50.

Saturday morning. The machinations of Professor Woland and his retinue are investigated by 12 policemen. They check the “bad apartment”, but find no one there. The city is in complete turmoil. Calling the police again and again about the apartment on Sadovaya Street. The new outfit discovers a large cat in the apartment, it remains unharmed after the shelling and sets everything on fire with the help of a primus stove.

Chapter 28. The last adventures of Koroviev and Behemoth.

Woland's retinue continues to misbehave. Koroviev and Behemoth set fire to the large Torgsin store and Griboyedov's restaurant. Each time, the attackers easily escape right from under the noses of the police.

Chapter 29. The fate of the Master and Margarita is determined.

Woland and Azazello in the black cloaks of knights of darkness stand on the roof of a Moscow building and look at the sunset. Levi Matthew appears to them, he voices the request of Yeshua, who wants peace for the master and Margarita. The Prince of Darkness promises to fulfill the request. The adventures of Koroviev and Behemoth are over. Woland announces that it is time to leave Moscow.

Chapter 30. It's time! It's time!

A guest comes to the Master and Margarita's apartment. The lovers joyfully greet Azazello, who treats them to poisoned wine. Wine transports the couple to the kingdom of darkness. Together with Woland, Azazello, Behemoth and Koroviev, the Master and Margarita fly over Moscow at night. They stop only once near a psychiatric clinic to say goodbye to Ivan Bezdomny.

Chapter 31. On the Sparrow Hills.

The thunderstorm ends and it’s time for travelers to hit the road.

Chapter 32. Forgiveness and eternal shelter.

In flight, the devil and his retinue take on their true form. Woland talks about the fate of each of them. Master Woland asks to grant forgiveness and eternal peace to Pontius Pilate, who has been waiting for this for more than one thousand moons. The procurator is forgiven, and so are the Master and Margarita, who have now found each other for eternity.

Epilogue.

The author talks about the further fates of Bezdomny, Varenukha, Sempleyarov and other heroes of the “Moscow” world.

Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita

Michael Bulgakov

Master and Margarita

Moscow 1984

The text is printed in the last lifetime edition (the manuscripts are stored in the manuscript department of the State Library of the USSR named after V.I. Lenin), as well as with corrections and additions made under the dictation of the writer by his wife, E.S. Bulgakova.

PART ONE

...So who are you, finally? – I am part of that force that always wants evil and always does good.

Goethe. "Faust"

Chapter 1

Never talk to strangers

One day in the spring, at an hour of an unprecedentedly hot sunset, two citizens appeared in Moscow, on the Patriarch's Ponds. The first of them, dressed in a gray summer pair, was short, well-fed, bald, carried his decent hat like a pie in his hand, and on his well-shaven face were glasses of supernatural size in black horn-rimmed frames. The second, a broad-shouldered, reddish, curly-haired young man in a checkered cap pulled back on his head, was wearing a cowboy shirt, chewy white trousers and black slippers.

The first was none other than Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz, chairman of the board of one of the largest Moscow literary associations, abbreviated as MASSOLIT, and editor of a thick art magazine, and his young companion was the poet Ivan Nikolaevich Ponyrev, writing under the pseudonym Bezdomny.

Finding themselves in the shade of slightly green linden trees, the writers first rushed to the colorfully painted booth with the inscription “Beer and water.”

Yes, the first strangeness of this terrible May evening should be noted. Not only at the booth, but in the entire alley parallel to Malaya Bronnaya Street, there was not a single person. At that hour, when, it seemed, there was no strength to breathe, when the sun, having heated Moscow, fell in a dry fog somewhere beyond the Garden Ring, no one came under the linden trees, no one sat on the bench, the alley was empty.

“Give me Narzan,” Berlioz asked.

“Narzan is gone,” answered the woman in the booth, and for some reason she was offended.

- Is there any beer? – Homeless inquired in a hoarse voice.

“The beer will be delivered in the evening,” the woman answered.

- What is there? asked Berlioz.

“Apricot, only warm,” the woman said.

- Well, come on, come on, come on!..

The apricot gave off a rich yellow foam, and the air smelled like a barbershop. Having drunk, the writers immediately began to hiccup, paid and sat down on a bench facing the pond and with their backs to Bronnaya.

Here a second strange thing happened, concerning only Berlioz. He suddenly stopped hiccupping, his heart pounded and for a moment sank somewhere, then returned, but with a dull needle stuck in it. In addition, Berlioz was gripped by an unreasonable, but so strong fear that he wanted to immediately flee from the Patriarch's without looking back. Berlioz looked around sadly, not understanding what frightened him. He turned pale, wiped his forehead with a handkerchief, and thought: “What’s wrong with me? This never happened... my heart is racing... I'm overtired. Perhaps it’s time to throw everything to hell and go to Kislovodsk...”

And then the sultry air thickened in front of him, and from this air a transparent citizen of a strange appearance was woven. On his small head is a jockey cap, a checkered, short, airy jacket... The citizen is a fathom tall, but narrow in the shoulders, incredibly thin, and his face, please note, is mocking.

Berlioz's life developed in such a way that he was not accustomed to unusual phenomena. Turning even paler, he widened his eyes and thought in confusion: “This can’t be!..”

But this, alas, was there, and the long citizen, through which one could see, swayed in front of him, both left and right, without touching the ground.

Here horror took over Berlioz so much that he closed his eyes. And when he opened them, he saw that it was all over, the haze dissolved, the checkered one disappeared, and at the same time the blunt needle jumped out of his heart.

- Fucking hell! - exclaimed the editor, - you know, Ivan, I almost had a stroke from the heat just now! There was even something like a hallucination,” he tried to grin, but his eyes were still jumping with anxiety, and his hands were shaking.

However, he gradually calmed down, fanned himself with a handkerchief and, saying quite cheerfully: “Well, so...”, he began his speech, interrupted by drinking apricot.

This speech, as we later learned, was about Jesus Christ. The fact is that the editor ordered the poet to write a large anti-religious poem for the next book of the magazine. Ivan Nikolaevich composed this poem in a very short time, but, unfortunately, it did not satisfy the editor at all. Bezdomny outlined the main character of his poem, that is, Jesus, in very black colors, and nevertheless, in the opinion of the editor, the entire poem had to be written anew. And now the editor was giving the poet something like a lecture about Jesus in order to highlight the poet’s main mistake. It is difficult to say what exactly let Ivan Nikolayevich down - whether it was the graphic power of his talent or complete unfamiliarity with the issue on which he was going to write - but Jesus in his portrayal turned out to be completely like a living, although not an attractive character. Berlioz wanted to prove to the poet that the main thing is not what Jesus was like, whether he was bad or good, but that this Jesus, as a person, did not exist in the world at all and that all the stories about him are simple inventions, the most common myth.

It should be noted that the editor was a well-read man and very skillfully pointed in his speech to ancient historians, for example, the famous Philo of Alexandria, the brilliantly educated Josephus, who never mentioned the existence of Jesus. Displaying solid erudition, Mikhail Alexandrovich informed the poet, among other things, that the place in the 15th book, in the 44th chapter of the famous Tacitus “Annals”, which talks about the execution of Jesus, is nothing more than a later fake insert.

The poet, for whom everything reported by the editor was news, listened attentively to Mikhail Alexandrovich, fixing his lively green eyes on him, and only hiccupped occasionally, cursing the apricot water in a whisper.

“There is not a single Eastern religion,” said Berlioz, “in which, as a rule, an immaculate virgin would not give birth to a god.” And the Christians, without inventing anything new, created their own Jesus in the same way, who in fact was never alive. This is what you need to focus on...

Berlioz's high tenor resounded in the deserted alley, and as Mikhail Alexandrovich climbed into the jungle, into which only a very educated person can climb without risking breaking his neck, the poet learned more and more interesting and useful things about the Egyptian Osiris , the benevolent god and son of Heaven and Earth, and about the Phoenician god Fammuz, and about Marduk, and even about the lesser-known formidable god Vitzliputzli, who was once highly revered by the Aztecs in Mexico.

And just at the time when Mikhail Alexandrovich was telling the poet about how the Aztecs sculpted a figurine of Vitzliputzli from dough, the first man appeared in the alley.

Subsequently, when, frankly speaking, it was too late, various institutions presented their reports describing this person. Comparing them cannot but cause amazement. So, in the first of them it is said that this man was short, had gold teeth and limped on his right leg. In the second - that the man was enormous in stature, had platinum crowns, and limped on his left leg. The third laconically reports that the person had no special signs.

We have to admit that none of these reports are any good.

First of all: the person described did not limp on any of his legs, and he was neither short nor huge, but simply tall. As for his teeth, he had platinum crowns on the left side and gold ones on the right. He was wearing an expensive gray suit and foreign-made shoes that matched the color of the suit. He cocked his gray beret jauntily over his ear and carried a cane with a black knob in the shape of a poodle's head under his arm. He looks to be over forty years old. The mouth is kind of crooked. Shaven clean. Brunette. The right eye is black, the left one is green for some reason. The eyebrows are black, but one is higher than the other. In a word - a foreigner.

Passing by the bench on which the editor and the poet sat, the foreigner glanced sideways at them, stopped and suddenly sat down on the next bench, two steps away from his friends.

“German,” thought Berlioz.

“The Englishman,” thought Bezdomny, “look, he’s not hot in his gloves.”

And the foreigner looked around at the tall houses bordering the pond in a square, and it became noticeable that he was seeing this place for the first time and that it interested him.

He fixed his gaze on the upper floors, dazzlingly reflecting in the glass the broken sun that was leaving Mikhail Alexandrovich forever, then he moved it downstairs, where the glass began to darken in the late afternoon, smiled condescendingly at something, squinted, put his hands on the knob, and his chin on his hands.

“You, Ivan,” said Berlioz, “very well and satirically depicted, for example, the birth of Jesus, the son of God, but the point is that even before Jesus a number of sons of God were born, like, say, the Phrygian Attis, in short speaking, not one of them was born and there was no one, including Jesus, and it is necessary that instead of the birth and, say, the arrival of the Magi, you describe the absurd rumors about this birth... Otherwise, it turns out from your story that he really born!..

Briefly about the history of the creation of the novel “The Master and Margarita”.

Mikhail Afanasyevich worked on the novel for almost 12 years - from the late 1920s to 1940. The author stopped making corrections and additions to the manuscript only three weeks before his death. The last editing of the novel was carried out by the writer's wife Elena after his funeral.

For a long time, Bulgakov could not decide on the final version of the title of the manuscript: “Woland’s Tour”, “The Engineer’s Hoof”, “The Black Magician” or “The Prince of Darkness”? Only in 1937, the writer, already weakening from illness, chose a name for the novel that was doomed to become world famous - “The Master and Margarita.”

The history of the creation of this work is replete with gaps. No one can say for sure where the author got the idea from. Perhaps this is due to the admiration that Goethe’s Faust aroused in Bulgakov. In the first manuscripts the author called the main character Faust. It is also interesting that the Master and his Margarita did not appear in the very initial version of the novel, although now it is impossible to imagine their absence from the plot.

In addition, in 1930, due to endless attacks from the government, the writer was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and in this depressed state he set fire to his literary work. Bulgakov returned to work on the novel a couple of years later, restoring the burned manuscript from rough notes.

The novel was published only 30 years after the death of its creator. Moreover, it was considerably shortened. The full version of The Master and Margarita was released in 1969 in Germany. In the USSR, Bulgakov’s novel was banned for a long time. It was published for the Soviet reader only in 1973.

Heroes of the novel “The Master and Margarita” and its artistic features In the novel “The Master and Margarita” the reader is presented with two independently developing storylines. The events of the first take place in Moscow in May of the 1930s, and the second, also in the spring, but in the city of Yershalaim at the very beginning of the new era, about two thousand years ago. The narrative is structured in such a way that the chapters of the “Moscow” history alternate with the chapters of the “Yershalaim” one, which are also the manuscript of the pen of the main character - the Master.

Heroes of the “Moscow” storyline and their characteristics:

Brief description of Professor Woland in the novel “The Master and Margarita”.

A foreign specialist in the field of black magic arrives in Soviet Moscow to amaze the locals with his amazing tricks, and then expose what is happening on stage. Woland is in fact, of course, not a magician at all, and certainly not a professor, but Satan himself, the prince of darkness and the lord of evil spirits. His entourage or retinue addresses him respectfully as “sir.” He arrived in Moscow to study the townspeople, check them “for lice” and expose, but not magic tricks, but unscrupulous scoundrels and faithless fools.

Despite the dark “origin” of this character, this character cannot be called negative. He punishes criminals, thanks to him the difficult love story of the Master and Margarita ends well and the novel about Pontius Pilate is revived from the ashes. The devil takes on his true form when leaving Moscow, and throughout his visit he appears before people in the body of a middle-aged man, tall, dark-haired, with a crooked mouth, eyes of different colors, a low pleasant voice and a slight limp.

Brief description of the Master from the novel “The Master and Margarita”.

One of the main characters in the story, who wrote a brilliant novel about Pontius Pilate. The master renounced his name and life, devoting himself to literary work. After the trial publication of the novel, critics attacked the Master; disappointed and insulted, he fell into a deep depression, from which even the loving Margarita was unable to pull him out. Because of a neighbor's slander, the Master was arrested and placed in a psychiatric clinic. And his beloved, having entered into a deal with Satan himself, was able to find and get him out of prison. Satan granted the Master peace.

Brief description of Margarita from the novel “The Master and Margarita”.

Bulgakov tells the story of a beautiful and intelligent woman who is unhappy in her marriage. Margarita meets the Master on the street, and they become close. The heroine becomes not just a lover - an inspirer, protector, ally and only friend for the genius. When the Master's novel is not accepted by critics, and the hero himself ends up in a hospital, Margarita enters into an agreement with the devil himself and becomes the hostess at his ball. Satan allows his assistant one request, but the selfless Margarita does not ask for herself. For kindness, compassion and love, Margarita receives a reward from the prince of darkness - eternal peace next to her beloved Master.

Brief description of the devil's retinue.

1. Knight Fagot or Koroviev is the chief of Satan’s henchmen, deciding the most important matters. With those who deserve good treatment he is respectful and friendly, with others he is rude and ill-mannered.
2. The demon killer Azazello is Satan’s assistant in matters requiring the use of physical force. Ugly in reality in Moscow - with an eyesore and a fang sticking out of his mouth. And a gloomy, stern murderer-demon in his last flight over the city.
3. The demon page or cat Behemoth is the most frivolous of Satan’s assistants. Favorite pastime: dirty tricks, fires and other hooliganism.
4. Gella is a vampire servant of Satan, walking around the apartment in nothing but an apron.

Minor heroes of the “Moscow” world in the novel “The Master and Margarita”.

If we talk about the characters involved in the novel “The Master and Margarita” and do not mention the artistic images of Moscow citizens, then we will not get a complete picture of Bulgakov’s Soviet capital.

• Aloisy Mogarych is the Master’s neighbor and false friend, who wrote a denunciation against him.
• Baron Meigel is a spy, according to Woland's definition, working with foreign guests of the capital.
• Bengali Georges is an ignorant and narrow-minded variety show entertainer.
• Berlioz Mikhail Alexandrovich is the chairman of the literary association MASSOLIT. Stupid, short-sighted person, disrespectful of faith.
• Ivan Bezdomny (Ponyrev) is a driven, impressionable proletarian poet who ended up in the same psychiatric hospital as the Master because of the devilry on the streets of Moscow. This meeting will change Ivan, he will re-understand the world, life values, realize the importance of faith, and renounce his own poems.
• Bosoy Nikanor Ivanovich is the housekeeper, chairman of the housing association in the very house where Woland and his retinue stayed.
• Ivan Varenukha is an administrator at the Variety Theater.
• Stepan Likhodeev is a theater director who is addicted to drinking and neglects his official duties.
• Sempleyarov Arkady Apollonovich - chairman of the theater commission.
• Sokov Andrei Fokich is a petty swindler who runs a buffet at Variety.
• Natasha is Margarita's housekeeper who turned into a witch the night before Satan's ball.
• Latunsky is the critic who ruined the Master.

The guests of Satan's ball are additional characters from the novel "The Master and Margarita".

During his May visit to Moscow, the devil organizes a grand spring ball, where Margarita is invited as the hostess, welcoming the guests - hanged men, rapists, child killers who have risen from the ashes. The personalities of some of them are given special attention in the novel:

• Musicians Johann Strauss and Henri Vieutan -
• Mr. Jacques and his wife - if you look into the history of the 15th century, a wealthy French merchant was wrongly accused and sentenced to death, acquitted and died a law-abiding citizen.
• Earl Robert - from history Robert Leicester (1532-1588), the queen's favorite, whose wife died prematurely and under mysterious circumstances.
• Mrs. Tofana is a poisoner from the 17th century who “liberated” wives from their husbands through poison.
• The Marquise is another poisoner who took the lives of her entire family for the sake of an inheritance.
• Madame Minkina is a cruel woman who was killed by her own domestic workers, unable to withstand her arbitrariness and violence.
• Emperor Rudolf was a German emperor in the 16th century.
• A Moscow dressmaker is the creator of a brothel disguised as a sewing studio.
• Caligula is an ancient Roman tyrant ruler.
• Messalina is the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, devoid of moral qualities.
• Malyuta Skuratov is a Russian nobleman who stood at the head of the guardsmen. Robber, murderer and murderer of Archbishop Philip II.
• Frida is a child killer. She left her own child to die in the forest with a handkerchief in her mouth. For which she was severely punished for hundreds of years, until Margarita asked for her.

A brief description of the main and secondary characters in the Master’s story about Pontius Pilate in the novel “The Master and Margarita.”

1. Pontius Pilate is the stern procurator of Judea. I developed sympathy for the criminal Yeshua, who was brought in for interrogation. In the process of communication, Pilate understands that there is no crime in Yeshua’s actions, but the fear of losing power does not allow the procurator to save the vagabond philosopher from execution. Pontius Pilate will be punished for cowardice, but then forgiven by the Master and “released” to freedom.
2. Yeshua Ha-Nozri is a philosopher and vagabond, unfairly accused of confusing the common people with his speeches. He knows nothing about his parents, is educated and considers all the people around him to be kind.
3. Levi Matthew is a tax collector who abandoned his job and followed Yeshua.
4. Judas of Kiriath is a scoundrel who betrayed Yeshua and was killed by order of Pilate.
5. Caiaphas is the high priest of Judea.