![]() Was he kicked out of the apartment and ended up at Yalta, lost and confused? Did the Devil do that? Yes, but the apartment didn’t belong to him anyway. He was rewarded for lying and sending innocent people to jail. Likhodeyev, the man who lives in a great apartment and enjoys a bunch of privileges didn’t deserve any of that with hard (or smart) work, but because he’s a self-serving hypocrite who denounced a few innocent people as spies. Woland and his retinue’s performance of black magic at Variety Theatre It was too late to think when everything they grabbed disappeared Not a single person tried to find any sense in Woland’s observation, they started to enjoy the show when Behemoth and Korovyev showed them some tricks, and got crazy when they threw the money in the audience and Hella “opened” the shop with expensive clothes offering it for free. They came for an entertainment show, so the beginning was boring, confusing, and disappointing for them – Woland just watched the audience and barely said anything. Spectators in the Variety theater didn’t end up with worthless papers and underwear because of the professor of black magic, but because their greed made them blind to everything else but money and expensive stuff. Those people’s greed, vanity, and gullibility are what put them in those situations. However, I would say that these events had nothing to do with Satan. One might argue that whoever met Satan, except Master and Margarita, found themselves in, let’s say, an unpleasant situation. In Master and Margarita, he is just an observer. However, there is no need to be afraid of Woland (or his entourage). When we say “devil,” most people think of the evil, seductive manipulator that we should be afraid of. Master and Margarita is not the first, and certainly not the last book where Satan is one of the characters, but Professor Woland is not a stereotypical devil. Satan visits Moscow disguised as mysterious professor Woland, a professor of black magic. We simultaneously follow Satan and his retinue who visit one capital every year and make a Spring Ball of the Full Moon there, and Pontius Pilate who meets Jesus on trial. The plot of Master and Margarita is made of two stories. Postal stamp from 1991 in honor of Michail Bulkgov’s 100th birthday Satan as a philosopher with a sense of justice Master and Margarita’s book survival wasn’t easy and it was published long after his death. The idea remained and grew even stronger, so Mikhail started to write the novel again and he worked on it for the rest of his life, literally. But as Bulgakov’s Satan once said “ The manuscripts don’t burn”. Therefore, Bulgakov knew he couldn’t publish the book, so he burned the first manuscript. It was not the first time Bulgakov showed the downsides of Soviet reality, so no wonder that many of his works were banned. The atmosphere of Soviet Moscow is what wanted to describe, and he did it in a quite unique way – Satan himself, with his entourage, visits the capital of the Soviet Union, and we see the city and its people through their reactions in contact with these strange visitors. He came to Moscow in 1921, and that’s where he wrote his most famous work – Master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 – 1940) was a Soviet writer born in Kyiv. Master and Margarita’s survival: Manuscripts don’t burn Why should fantasy fans read Master and Margarita?.A short fantasy story within Master and Margarita: Satan’s Ball.Witchcraft as a part of characters in Master and Margarita.Meet more characters in Master and Margarita: Satan’s retinue. ![]() Satan as a philosopher with a sense of justice.Master and Margarita’s survival: Manuscripts don’t burn.
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