![]() Claiming that he is a foreign ‘artiste’ with powers in black magic, the Devil, or Woland, as Bulgakov calls him, proceeds to expose via several seances the dark side of socialist Russia. ![]() The layered satire begins one hot spring during which the Devil himself visits Moscow with his cronies, two disfigured henchmen, a seductress named Hella and a giant cat who loves vodka, chess and guns. Moskva printed a hugely censored version in two parts in 19. The novel never got published in his lifetime, until the magazine This was the era of Stalin and his purges, and the story goes that since Bulgakov was a favourite, he was allowed to live, but his work didn’t necessarily reach the public, at least not his “subversive” writing. ![]() The Master and Margarita, around 1928, dictating the final updates to his wife days before his death in 1940. Russian writer Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov began writing his masterpiece, ![]()
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