The Master and Margarita with Illustrations of Sergei Polunin's Ballet

Mikhail Bulgakov is the main Russian mystic of the 20th century. A doctor by education and a subtle satirist by vocation, he witnessed and masterfully described the breaking of epochs, the Revolution, the civil war, the caustic persecution of critics, and true love. At the hour of a hot spring sunset, the Devil himself appeared in Moscow with his retinue. And completely unexpected things began to happen to people — someone lost their head on the sidewalk, someone suddenly woke up on the Yalta waterfront, and someone finally got the chance to save their beloved. Even if it required becoming a real witch… A phantasmagorical satire on the everyday life and morals of Moscow in the 1930s, a simultaneously poignant love story of the Master and Margarita and the eternal biblical theme of the struggle between good and evil, a novel about Pontius Pilate within the novel — these are far from all the layers of this genius work by Mikhail Bulgakov.