On Sunday, June 19, 2022, the members of the Верховна Рада України or Ukrainian parliament voted unanimously in favour of a new set of laws aimed at drastically limiting the spread of the Russian language in Ukraine. One of them depicts Mikhail Bulgakov with a cat.
Two new statues were unveiled at the Vasilchikov estate in the Bolshaya Nikitskaya ulitsa in Moscow. On August 27, beryozkas or currency stores will reopen in Russia. In October 2022, The Moscow Independant Theatre will play the renowned Valery Belyakovich version of The Master and Margarita in France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands.Ĭhapter 27 of The Master and Margarita becomes topical again. The fastest way to read our latest news is to visit our Facebook page Welcome to the wonderful world of The Master and Margarita. Have a regular look at the newspage too, because Bulgakov is still alive…
#Master and margarita movie#
You can use the menu at the top to learn more about Mikhail Bulgakov, the story and its themes, the political and social context, the characters and the locations, and discover how this novel inspired many others to create music, movie pictures or theatre plays. I lost my heart in Moscow, it will stay there forever and I started learning Russian because, one day, I want to be able to read it in the original language. One year later the images came back, and how! Another Russian friend of mine, Irina Ternovaya, advised me to read The Master and Margarita, written by Mikhail Bulgakov. I was listening and I was amused, but without really trying to remember the name of the novel nor its author. She told me a strange, but funny story about the Devil visiting Moscow.
We were discussing literature and I told her about my favourite novel, Cien años de soledad, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I was talking to Tatiana Poppel, a Russian friend who lived there. At that hour when it seemed no longer possible to breathe, when the sun, having scorched Moscow, was collapsing in a dry haze somewhere beyond Sadovoye Ring, no one came under the lindens, no one sat on a bench, the walk was empty.It was a hot summer night in July 2003 and I was admiring the Eiffel Tower from the open window of a nice penthouse at the Avenue Émile Zola in Paris. There was not a single person to be seen, not only by the stand, but also along the whole walk parallel to Malaya Bronnaya Street. Once in the shade of the barely greening lindens, the writers dashed first thing to a brightly painted stand with the sign: ‘Beer and Soft Drinks.’Īh, yes, note must be made of the first oddity of this dreadful May evening. The first was none other than Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz, editor of a fat literary journal and chairman of the board of one of the major Moscow literary associations, called Massolit for short, and his young companion was the poet Ivan Nikolaevich Ponyrev, who wrote under the pseudonym of Homeless. The other, a broad-shouldered young man with tousled reddish hair, his checkered cap cocked back on his head, was wearing a cowboy shirt, wrinkled white trousers and black sneakers. His neatly shaven face was adorned with black horn-rimmed glasses of a supernatural size. One of them, approximately forty years old, dressed in a grey summer suit, was short, dark-haired, plump, bald, and carried his respectable fedora hat in his hand. There’s a lot going on here, and often my head was spinning like:Īt the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared at the Patriarch’s Ponds. Margarita is the master’s lover who agrees to serve as the hostess of Satan’s upcoming rave so long as he frees the master.
The master is a writer working on a novel about Pontius Pilate (the scenes involving him are excerpts from the manuscript), and he winds up locked in an asylum. Connecting these threads is the plight of the master and Margarita.
#Master and margarita trial#
Interspersed with the demonic hijinks is a story about Pontius Pilate, the trial and execution of Jesus Christ and its aftermath.
They confound the state bureaucracy by causing an office staff to break out in uncontrollable song, and they turn one bureaucrat invisible: a literal empty suit. They distract the police by staging a black-magic séance that ends with people running wild, some of them nearly naked, in the streets. They clear out an apartment suitable for the festivities by sending one resident under a tram and teleporting another to Yalta.
#Master and margarita cracked#
To arrange this, he and his henchmen-Azazello, an enforcer with one fang, Koroviev, a fast-talker with a cracked pince-nez, and Behemoth, a cat that can walk and talk like a person-go on a bizarre spree of murder and mayhem. Satan has come to Moscow to throw his annual gala for doomed souls.
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