The Master and Margarita with illustrations of the ballet by Sergey Polunin

Mikhail Bulgakov is the main Russian mystic of the 20th century. A medical graduate by education and a subtle satirist by vocation, he witnessed and masterfully described the breaks in 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 entourage. And completely unexpected things began to happen to people—some lost their heads on the pavement, some suddenly woke up on Yalta's waterfront, and some, finally, got the chance to save their beloved. Even if it required becoming a true witch… A dazzling satire on the daily life and manners of Moscow in the 30s, 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 brilliant work by Mikhail Bulgakov.