Summary “Master and Margarita”
The novel “Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov is a book in the book. In the story of Satan’s visit to Moscow in the early twentieth century, a novella based on the New Testament is written, which was allegedly composed by one of Bulgakov’s characters – the master. At the end, two works are combined: the master meets his protagonist – the procurator of Judea Pontius Pilate – and mercifully decides his fate.
The work on the novel by Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov was stopped by death. The first magazine publications “The Masters and Margaritas” are dated 1966-1967, in 1969 the book with a large number of abbreviations was published in Germany, and in the writer’s homeland the complete text of the novel was published only in 1973. To familiarize with its plot and the basic ideas it is possible, having read online the summary of “the Master and Margarita” on chapters.
Main characters
The master is
Margarita is his lover. Having lost the master, he yearns for it and in the hope of seeing him again agrees to become a queen at the annual ball of Satan.
Woland is a mysterious black magician, who eventually turns himself into Satan.
Azazello is a member of Woland’s suite, a short red-haired fanged subject.
Koroviev is Woland’s companion, a tall, lean type in a checkered jacket and a pince-nez with one broken glass.
A hippopotamus is a buffoon Woland, from a huge talking black cat turning into a short fat man “with a cat’s mug” and back.
Pontius Pilate is the fifth procurator of Judea, in which human feelings struggle with official duty.
Yeshua Ha-Nozri is a wandering philosopher, condemned to crucifixion for his ideas.
Other characters
Mikhail Berlioz – chairman of MASSOLIT, literary union. He believes that the person himself determines his fate, but dies as a result of an accident.
Ivan
Gella – a servant of Woland, an attractive red-headed vampire.
Stepa Likhodeev – director of the Variety Theater, neighbor of Berlioz. Mysteriously moving from Moscow to Yalta, to vacate the apartment for Woland and his retinue.
Ivan Varenukha is the administrator of Variety. In edification for impoliteness and addiction to lies Woland’s retinue turns him into a vampire.
Gregory of Rome – the financial director of the Variety show, almost fell victim to the attack of the vampire Varenukha and Gella.
Andrey Sokov – bartender Variety.
Vasily Lastochkin – Accountant Variety.
Natasha – a servant of Margarita, a young attractive girl, after the mistress turns into a witch.
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy is the chairman of the housing association in the house where the “damned apartment” No. 50 is located, the bribe taker.
Aloysius Mogarych is a traitor to the master, pretending to be a friend.
Levi Matvey is the Yershalaim collector of taxes, which is so enthralled by Yeshua’s speech that he becomes his follower.
Judas of Kiriath is a young man who betrayed Yeshua Ha-Nozri, who trusted him, and was flattered for the reward. In punishment for it is stuck.
The high priest of Kaif is the ideological opponent of Pilate, destroying the last hope for the salvation of the condemned Yeshua: in exchange, the robber Var-Rabbi will be released.
Afraniy is the head of the secret service of the procurator.
Summary
Part one
Chapter 1. Never Talk to Unknown People
At the Patriarchal Ponds in Moscow, the chairman of the MASSOLIT writers’ trade union, Mikhail Berlioz and the poet Ivan Bezdomny, are talking about Jesus Christ. Berlioz reproaches Ivan that he in his poem created a negative image of this character, instead of refuting the very fact of its existence, and brings many arguments to prove the non-existence of Christ.
A stranger, similar to a foreigner, intervenes in the conversation of the writers. He asks the question, who, since God does not exist, governs human life. Having challenged the answer that “the man himself rules,” he predicts Berlioz death: he will cut off the head of “Russian woman, Komsomol” – and very soon, because some Annushka has already spilled sunflower oil.
Berlioz and Homeless are suspected of being a spy, but he shows them the documents and says that he is invited to Moscow as a consultant for black magic, then declares that Jesus did exist. Berlioz requires proof, and the foreigner begins to talk about Pontius Pilate.
Chapter 2. Pontius Pilate
At the trial of the procurator Pontius Pilate, a beaten and poorly clad man of about twenty-seven is brought in. A migraine sufferer Pilate must approve the death sentence pronounced by the holy Sanhedrin: the accused Yeshua Ha-Nozri allegedly called for the destruction of the temple. However, after talking with Jeshua Pilate begins to sympathize with an intelligent and educated prisoner who, as if by magic, saved him from a headache and considers all people to be good. The procurator tries to lead Yeshua to the fact that he refuses the words that are attributed to him. But he, as if sensing danger, easily confirms the information contained in the denunciation of a certain Judas from Kiriath – that he opposed all power, and hence the power of the great Caesar. After this, Pilate must confirm the verdict.
But he makes another attempt to save Yeshua. In a private conversation with the High Priest Kaifoy, he intercedes to have Yeshua pardoned from the two prisoners by the Sanhedrin department. However, Kaifa refuses, preferring to give life to the rebel and murderer Var-Rabbi.
Chapter 3. The Seventh Evidence
Berlioz tells the consultant that the reality of his history can not be proved. The foreigner claims that he was present at these events personally. The head of MASSOLITA suspects that he is crazy, especially since the consultant intends to live in the apartment of Berlioz. After entrusting a strange subject to the Homeless, Berlioz goes to the pay phone to call the foreigners’ bureau. Then the consultant asks him to believe in at least the devil and promises some reliable evidence.
Berlioz is going to cross tram tracks, but slips on spilled sunflower oil and flies on rails. The tram car, operated by a female wagon driver in a Komsomol red kerchief, Berlioz cuts off his head.
Chapter 4. The pursuit
Amazed by the tragedy, the poet hears that some oil, on which Berlioz slipped, was poured by some Annushka and Sadovaya. Ivan compares these words with the said mysterious alien and decides to call him to account. However, the consultant, who spoke beautifully before Russian, pretends that he does not understand the poet. In his defense is an easygoing subject in a checked jacket, and a little later Ivan sees them in the distance together and besides, accompanied by a huge black cat. Despite all the poet’s efforts to catch up with them, they hide.
Further actions of Ivan look strange. He invades an unfamiliar apartment, being sure that the malicious professor is hiding there. Having stolen from there the image and the candle, Homeless continues chasing and moves to the Moscow River. There he decides to swim, then discovers that his clothes are stolen. Dressed in what is – a torn sweatshirt and pants – Ivan decides to look for a foreigner “at Griboyedov” – in the restaurant MASSOLIT.
Chapter 5. There was a case in Griboyedov
“House Griboyedov” – the building of MASSOLIT. Being a literary union member is very advantageous: one can claim housing in Moscow and a summer residence in a prestigious settlement, go to “creative holidays”, eat deliciously and cheaply in a luxurious restaurant “for one’s own”.
12 writers who gathered at the meeting of Massolit, wait for Chairman Berlioz, and not waiting, go down to the restaurant. Learning of the tragic death of Berlioz, they mourn, but not for long: “Yes, he died, died… But we are alive!” – and continue to eat.
The restaurant appears Ivan Bezdomny – barefoot, in pants, with an icon and a candle – and begins to look under the desks of a consultant, who accuses of the death of Berlioz. Colleagues are trying to calm him down, but Ivan is furious, arranges a fight, the waiters tie him with towels, and the poet is taken to a psychiatric hospital.
Chapter 6. Schizophrenia, as it was said
A doctor talks with Ivan Bezdomny. The poet is very happy that he is finally ready to listen, and sets out to him his fantastic story about a consultant who knows the evil forces, “attached” Berlioz to the tram and personally knows Pontius Pilate.
In the middle of the story Homeless recalls that it is necessary to call the police, but they do not listen to the poet from the madhouse. Ivan tries to escape from the clinic, knocking out the window, but he can withstand a special glass, and the Homeless is placed in a room diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Chapter 7. A bad apartment
Director of the Moscow Variety Theater Stepa Likhodeev wakes up from a hangover in her apartment, which she shares with the late Berlioz. The apartment has a bad reputation – there are rumors that the former tenants have disappeared without a trace and an unclean force has allegedly been implicated in it.
Stepa sees a stranger in black who claims that Likhodeev has appointed him a meeting. He calls himself Professor of Black Magic by Woland and wants to clarify the details of the signed and already paid contract for performances in the Variety, of which Stepa does not remember anything. Calling the theater and confirming the guest’s words, Likhodeev discovers him no longer alone, but with a checkered type in a pince-nez and a huge talking black cat who drinks vodka. Woland announces to Stepa that he is unnecessary in the apartment, and a short, red-haired fanged subject named Azazello, who left the mirror, suggests “throwing him out to all the devils from Moscow.”
Stepa is on the beach in an unfamiliar city and finds out from a passerby that this is Yalta.
Chapter 8. The Duel between the Professor and the Poet
To Ivan Bezdomny in the hospital come doctors, led by Dr. Stravinsky. He asks Ivan to repeat his story again and wonder what he will do if he is released from the clinic now. The homeless responds that he will go straight to the police to report about the damned consultant. Stravinsky convinces the poet that he is too upset by the death of Berlioz to behave adequately, and therefore he will not be believed and immediately returned to the hospital. The doctor suggests Ivan to rest in a comfortable ward, and formulate an application to the police in writing. The poet agrees.
Chapter 9. The Koroviev Pieces
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy, chairman of the housing association in the house on Sadovaya, where Berlioz lived, is besieged by applicants for the liberated area of the deceased. Barefoot visits the apartment himself. In the sealed office Berlioz sits the subject, which is represented by Koroviev, an interpreter of the foreign artist Woland, who lives at Likhodeev with permission from the owner who left for Yalta. He offers Bosom to hand over the artist Berlioz’s apartments and immediately gives him a rent and a bribe.
Nikanor Ivanovich leaves, and Woland expresses the wish that he no longer appears. Koroviev calls the phone and informs that the chairman of the housing association illegally keeps the currency at home. Barefoot comes with a search and instead of the rubles Koroviev gave him, they find dollars. Barefoot arrested.
Chapter 10. News from Yalta
In the office of the financial director of the Variety Rimsky, he himself and the administrator of Varenukha sit. They wonder where Likhodeev went missing. At this time an urgent telegram from Yalta comes to the name of Varenukha – someone appeared to the local threat, claiming that he is Stepan Likhodeev, and confirmation of his identity is necessary. The administrator and the financial director decide that this is a rally: Likhodeev called four hours ago from his apartment, promising to come to the theater soon, and since that time he could not move from Moscow to the Crimea.
Varenukha calls up Stepa’s apartment, where he is informed that he went to the country to drive by car. New version: “Yalta” – cheburechnaya, where Likhodeev got drunk with a local telegraph operator and amuses himself by sending telegrams for work.
Roman orders Varenukha to carry telegrams to the police. An unfamiliar nasal voice on the phone orders the administrator of telegrams not to go anywhere, but he nevertheless goes to the office. On the way, he is attacked by a fat man, like a cat, and a short, fanged subject. They deliver their victims to Likhodeev’s apartment. The last thing Varenukha sees is a naked red-haired girl with burning eyes that is approaching him.
Chapter 11. The Splitting of Ivan
Ivan Bezdomnyi in the hospital tries to make a statement to the police, but he can not clearly explain what happened. In addition to this, he is troubled by a thunderstorm outside the window. After a soothing injection, the poet lies and talks “in the mind” with himself. One of the internal “interlocutors” continues to worry about the tragedy with Berlioz, another is sure that instead of panic and chase it was necessary to politely ask the consultant about Pilate and learn the continuation of the story.
Suddenly, a stranger appears on the balcony behind the window of Homeless’s room.
Chapter 12. Black magic and its exposure
Finitektor Variete Roman wondered where Varenukha had disappeared. He wants to call this to the police, but all the phones in the theater are broken. In the Variety comes Woland, accompanied by Koroviev and the cat.
Entertainer Bengalsky represents Woland to the public, stating that there is no black magic, of course, and the artist is only a virtuoso magician. “The show with exposure” Woland begins with a philosophical conversation with Koroviev, whom he calls Fagot, that Moscow and its inhabitants have changed greatly outwardly, but the question is much more important, whether they became others inwardly. Bengalsky explains to the audience that the foreign artist is admired by Moscow and the Muscovites, but the artists immediately object that they did not say anything like that.
Koroviev-Fagot shows a trick with a deck of cards, which is found in the wallet of one of the spectators. The skeptic, who decided that this viewer is in cahoots with the conjurer, finds a bundle of money in his pocket. After that, the chervonets begin to fall from the ceiling, and people catch them. The entertainer calls what is happening “mass hypnosis” and assures the hall that the papers are not real, but the artists again refute his words. Fagot declares that Bengalsky is bored with him, and asks the audience what to do with this liar. From the audience can hear a sentence: “Head him off!” – and the cat tears off Bengal’s head. Spectators feel sorry for the entertainer, Woland argues out loud that people, in general, remain the same, “the housing issue only spoiled them,” and orders to put his head back. Bengalsky leaves the stage, and he is taken away by an ambulance.
“Таперича, when this boredom was alloyed, let’s open the ladies’ store!” – Says Koroviev. On the stage there are showcases, mirrors and rows of clothes, and the exchange of old dresses of spectators for new ones begins. When the store disappears, a voice from the audience demands the promised exposure. In response, Bugot reveals his owner – that yesterday he was not at work, but at his mistress. The session ends with a scandal.
Chapter 13. The appearance of the hero
A stranger from the balcony enters the ward of Ivan. This is also a patient. He has a bunch of keys stolen from a paramedic, but when asked why he does not flee from the hospital when he has them, the guest says that he has nowhere to go. He informs Homeless about a new patient, who keeps repeating about the currency in the ventilation, and is interested in the poet, as he himself got here. Learning that “because of Pontius Pilate,” requires details and tells Ivan that he met with Satan at the Patriarch’s Ponds.
Stranger also brought Pontius Pilate – a guest Ivan wrote about him a novel. He seems to Homeless to be a “master” and presents a hat with the letter M, which was sewed for him by a certain “she”. Then the master tells his story to the poet how he once won a hundred thousand rubles, quit his job in the museum, rented a flat in the basement and began to write a novel, and soon met his beloved: “Love jumped out before us as a murderer in an alley jumps out from under the earth, and struck us both at once! “Thus strikes lightning, so the Finnish knife hits!”. Just like the master himself, his secret wife fell in love with his novel, saying that in it all her life. However, the book was not taken to the press, and when the passage was still published, the reviews in the newspapers proved to be a failure – critics called the novel “pilchatina, and the author was branded “pious” and “militant Old Believer.” Particularly zealous was one of Latunsky, whom his beloved master promised to kill. Soon after, the master made friends with a fan of literature called Aloysius Mogarych, who did not like his beloved much. Reviews between that continued to go out, and the master began to go crazy. He burned his novel in the oven – the woman who entered the house managed to save only a few burnt sheets – and on the same night he was evicted and he went to the hospital. The beloved master has not seen since. Reviews between that continued to go out, and the master began to go crazy. He burned his novel in the oven – the woman who entered the house managed to save only a few burnt sheets – and on the same night he was evicted and he went to the hospital. The beloved master has not seen since. Reviews between that continued to go out, and the master began to go crazy. He burned his novel in the oven – the woman who entered the house managed to save only a few burnt sheets – and on the same night he was evicted and he went to the hospital. The beloved master has not seen since.
In the next room put a patient who complains about the supposedly torn off head. When the noise subsides, Ivan asks the interlocutor why he did not let his beloved know about himself, and he replies that he does not want to make her unhappy: “Poor woman.” However, I have a hope that she has forgotten me! “.
Chapter 14. Glory to the rooster!
Finitektor Variete Rimsky from the window sees several ladies, from which the clothes in the middle of the street suddenly disappeared – these are unlucky customers of the store of Fagot. He should make several calls about today’s scandals, but he is forbidden by this “depraved woman’s voice” on the phone.
By midnight, Rimsky remains alone in the theater, and Varenukha appears with a story about Likhodeev. According to him, Stepa really got drunk in a cheburechny “Yalta” with a telegraph operator and arranged a rally with telegrams, and also made many ugly tricks, eventually finding himself in a sobering-up station. Roman begins to notice that the administrator behaves suspiciously – he covers himself from the lamp with a newspaper, has acquired the habit of smacking, strangely pale, and on his neck he has a scarf, despite the heat. Finally, the financial director sees Varenukha not casting shadows.
The unmasked vampire closes the door of the office from the inside, and through the window a red-haired naked girl comes through. However, these two do not have time to crack down on Roman – a rooster shouted. Miraculously rescued findirektor, graying overnight, hastily leaves for Leningrad.
Chapter 15. Nikanor Ivanovich’s dream
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy on all questions of law enforcement officers about the currency repeats about unclean force, scoundrel-translator and his complete non-participation in the dollars found in his ventilation system. He confesses: “I took, but took our Soviet!”. It is passed on to psychiatrists. In apartment number 50 is sent an outfit to check Boso’s words about the interpreter, but finds it empty, and the seals on the doors are intact.
In the hospital Nikanor Ivanovich sees a dream – he is again interrogated about dollars, but it happens in the premises of some strange theater, in which, in parallel with the concert program, the audience is asked to take the currency. He screams in a dream, he is comforted by a paramedic.
The screams of Barefoot awakened his neighbors in the hospital. When Ivan Bezdomny falls asleep again, he begins to dream of the continuation of the story of Pilate.
Chapter 16. Execution
On the Bald Mountain, prisoners sentenced to death, including Yeshua. The place of the crucifix is cordoned off: the procurator is afraid that the convicts will try to discourage the servants of the law.
Soon after the crucifixion, the audience leaves the mountain, unable to withstand the heat. The soldiers remain and suffer from the heat. But on the mountain one more person hid – this is Jeshua’s disciple, the former Yershalaim collector of taxes, Levi Matvey. When the suicide bombers drove to the place of execution, he wanted to get to Ha-Nozri and stab him with a stolen in the bread shop with a knife, saving him from a painful death, but he did not succeed. He blames himself for what happened to Jeshua – left the teacher alone, fell ill in time, – and asks the Lord to give Ga-Nozri death. However, the Almighty does not hasten to fulfill the request, and then Levi Matvey begins to murmur and curse him. As if in response to blasphemy there is a thunderstorm, the soldiers are leaving the hill, and towards them a cohort commander in a scarlet mantle ascends to the mountain. At his command, the sufferers on the pillars are killed with a prick of a spear in the heart,
A thunderstorm begins, the hill is empty. Levi Matvey approaches the pillars and removes all three corpses from them, after which he steals Yeshua’s body.
Chapter 17. Restless Day
Accountant Variete Lastochkin, who remained in the theater for the main thing, has no idea how he should react to the rumors that Moscow is full of, and what to do with incessant phone calls and investigators with a dog who came to look for the missing Roman. The dog, incidentally, behaves strangely – at the same time angry, afraid and howls, as an evil spirit – and does not bring any benefit to the search. It turns out that all the documents about Woland in the Variety have disappeared – even the posters did not remain.
Lastochkin sent a report to the commission of shows and amusements. There he discovers that an empty suit is sitting in the chairman’s office and signing papers. According to the tearful secretary, her boss was visited by a fat man, looking like a cat. The bookkeeper decides to visit the branch of the commission – but there some kind of checker-type in a broken pince-nez organized a circle of choral singing, he disappeared, and singers still can not shut up.
Finally Lastochkin arrives in the entertainment sector, wishing to hand over the proceeds from yesterday’s performance. However, instead of rubles in his portfolio is the currency. Accountants are arrested.
Chapter 18. Unhappy visitors
The uncle of the late Berlioz Maxim Poplavsky arrives to Moscow from Moscow. He received a strange telegram about the death of a relative, signed by the name of Berlioz himself. Poplavsky wants to claim an inheritance – housing in the capital.
In the apartment of his nephew Poplavsky meets with Koroviev, who sobs and paints the death of Berlioz. With Poplavsky the cat starts talking, informs that he gave a telegram, and requires a guest passport, and then informs him that his presence at the funeral is canceled. Azazello turns Poplavsky out, telling him not to dream of an apartment in Moscow.
Just after Poplavsky in the “bad” apartment comes the bartender Variety Sokov. Woland voiced to him a number of claims to his work – the brynza is green, the sturgeon is “the second freshness”, the tea “looks like a slop”. Sokov, in turn, complains that the chervontsi in the cash register turned into a cut paper. Woland and his retinue sympathize with him and along the way – they predict the death from liver cancer in nine months, and when Sokov wants to show them the former money, the paper again turns into chervontsi.
The barman rushes to the doctor and begs him to heal the disease. He pays for his visit all the same chervontsami, and after his departure they turn into wine labels.
Part two
Chapter 19. Margarita
Beloved master, Margarita Nikolaevna, did not forget him at all, and she could not afford a secure life in her husband’s mansion. On the day of strange events with the barman and Poplavsky she wakes up with the feeling that something will happen. For the first time during the separation, the master dreamed of her, and she goes to sort through the relics associated with him – this is his photo portrait, dried pink petals, a savings account with the remains of his winnings and burnt pages of the novel.
Walking around Moscow, Margarita sees the funeral of Berlioz. Next to her, a small, red-haired and tusked citizen sits down and tells her about the deceased’s head stolen by someone, after which, calling her by name, invites to visit “one very famous foreigner.” Margarita wants to leave, but Azazello cites after her a line from the novel of the master and hints that, having agreed, she can find out about her lover. The woman agrees, and Azazello hands her some magic cream and gives instructions.
Chapter 20. Azazello Cream
Having smeared with cream, Margarita grows younger, prettier and gets the ability to fly. “Forgive me and forget it as soon as possible, I’ll leave you forever, do not look for me, it’s useless.” I became a witch from the grief and disaster that struck me. “It’s time for me, goodbye,” she writes to her husband. Enter her maid Natasha, see her and find out about the magic cream. Margarita calls Azazello and says that it’s time to fly out – and an enlivened sexual brush rushes into the room. Saddled her, Margarita in front of Natasha and a neighbor from the bottom of Nikolai Ivanovich flies out the window.
Chapter 21. Flight
Margarita becomes invisible and, flying through the night Moscow, amuses himself with petty pranks, scaring people. But then she sees a luxurious house in which writers live, and among them – critic Latunsky, who destroyed the master. Margarita through the window penetrates into his apartment and arranges there pogrom.
When she continues the flight, she is caught up by Natasha riding a furrow. It turns out that the housekeeper had rubbed off the remains of the magic cream and had smeared his neighbor Nikolai Ivanovich, as a result of which she became a witch, and he became a hog. Having bathed in the night river, Margarita goes back to Moscow on the flying car she has given her.
Chapter 22. By Candlelight
In Moscow, Koroviev escorts Margarita to a “bad” apartment and talks about the annual Satan ball, on which she will be the queen, mentioning that in Marguerite royal blood flows. In an incomprehensible way inside the apartment ballrooms are placed, and Koroviev explains this using the fifth dimension.
Woland lies in the bedroom, playing with a cat Behemoth in chess, and Gella rubs his oozing knee with ointment. Margarita replaces Gella, Woland asks the guest whether she suffers something: “Perhaps you have some sadness, poisoning the soul, anguish?”, But Margarita answers negatively. A little before midnight, and she is led away to prepare for the ball.
Chapter 23. The great ball of Satan
Margarita is bathed in blood and pink oil, put on her regalia of the queen and lead her to the stairs to meet guests – long dead, but for the sake of a ball of criminals resurrected for one night: poisoners, pimps, counterfeiters, murderers, traitors. Among them is a young woman named Frida, whose story Margarita tells Koroviev: “When she served in a cafe, the owner somehow called her into the pantry, and nine months later she gave birth to a boy, carried him into the forest and shoved a shawl in his mouth, and then buried the boy in the ground. “At the trial she said that she had nothing to feed her child.” Since then, for 30 years, Frida every morning, bring that handkerchief.
The reception ends, and Margarita must fly around the halls and pay attention to the guests. Woland appears, to whom Azazello on a platter brings Berlioz’s head. Woland releases Berlioz into oblivion, and his skull turns into a bowl. This vessel is filled with the blood of the baron-shot Azazello Baron Maigel – a Moscow official, the only living guest at the ball, in which Voland calculated a spy. The cup is brought to Margarita, and she drinks. The ball ends, everything disappears and in place of the huge hall is a modest living room and a slightly open door to Woland’s bedroom.
Chapter 24. Extracting the wizard
Margarita has more and more fears that there will be no rewards for the presence of Satan at the ball, but she does not want to remind herself of her from pride, and even to a direct question, Woland responds that she does not need anything. “Never and do not ask anything, never anything, and especially those who are stronger than you.” They themselves will be offered and all will be given! ” – says Woland, pleased with her and offers to fulfill any desire of Margarita. However, instead of solving her problem, she demands that Frieda stop giving the handkerchief. Woland says that such a smallness the queen can do and herself, and his proposal remains in force – and then Margarita finally wishes that she “this very moment returned her lover, the master.”
The master is in front of her. Woland, hearing about the novel about Pilate, is interested in them. The manuscript burned by the master turns out to be entirely in Woland’s hands: “manuscripts do not burn.”
Margarita asks to return her and her lover to his basement, and that everything should be as it was. Master is skeptical: his apartment has long been inhabited by others, he has no documents, he will be sought for escape from the clinic. All of these problems Voland decides, and it turns out that the living space of the master was taken by his “friend” Mogarych, who wrote a denunciation on him that the master keeps illegal literature in his home.
Natasha, at the request of her and Margarita, is left a witch. Neighbor Nikolai Ivanovich, who returned his appearance, requires a certificate for the police and his wife that he spent the night at a ball with Satan, and the cat immediately wrote it to him. Appears administrator Varenukha and begs him to let go of the vampires, because he is not bloodthirsty.
At parting Woland promises to the master that his work will still bring him surprises. Lovers are taken to their basement apartment. There the master falls asleep, and the happy Margarita reread his novel.
CHAPTER 25. How the Procurator tried to save Judah
A storm is raging over Yershalaim. The prosecutor is the head of the secret service Afraniy and reports that the execution was completed, there are no riots in the city and the mood as a whole is quite satisfactory. In addition, he talks about the last hours of Yeshua’s life, quoting the words of Ha-Nozri, that “among the human vices, he considers cowardice one of the most important.”
Pilate tells Afraniya to immediately and secretly surrender the bodies of all three executed and take care of the safety of Judah from Kiriath, whom he allegedly heard would be slaughtered this night by the “secret friends of Ha-Nozri.” In fact, the procurator himself now allegorically orders the head of the secret guard this murder.
Chapter 26. Burial
The procurator understands that he has missed something very important today and no orders will be returned. Some consolation he finds only in communication with his beloved dog Banga.
Afranius, meanwhile, visits a young woman named Niza. Soon she meets in the city with the enamored Judas of Kiriath, who has just received from Kaifa a payment for the betrayal of Yeshua. She appoints a young man a date in the garden near Yershalaim. Instead of a girl, Judas is met there by three men, killing him with a knife and taking away a purse with thirty pieces of silver. One of these three – Afraniy – returns to the city, where the procurator, in anticipation of the report, fell asleep. In his dreams, Yeshua lives and walks with him along the lunar road, both of them are happy to argue about the necessary and important things, and the procurator understands that, indeed, there is no vice worse than cowardice – and indeed it was cowardice that he feared to justify the philosopher-freethinker to the detriment of his career.
Afranius says that Judas is dead, and a packet of silver and a note “Returning the damned money” was planted to the high priest Kaifa. Pilate tells Afraniya to let out a rumor that Judas committed suicide. Then the head of the secret service informs that Yeshua’s body was found not far from the place of execution of a certain Levi Matvey who did not want to give it, but when he learned that Ga-Nozri would be buried, he resigned himself.
Levi Matvey leads to the procurator, who asks him to show the parchment with the words of Yeshua. Levi rebukes Pilate in the death of Ha-Nozri, to which he notices that Yeshua himself did not blame anyone. The former tax collector warns that he is going to kill Judas, but the procurator informs him that the traitor is already dead and he did it, Pilate.
Chapter 27. End of apartment №50
In Moscow, the investigation continues in the case of Woland, and the police are once again sent to the “bad” apartment, where they lead all the ends. There is a talking cat with a primus stove. He provokes a shootout, which, however, does without the injured. The voices of Woland, Koroviev and Azazello are heard, saying that it’s time to leave Moscow – and the cat, after apologizing, disappears, pouring burning gasoline from the Primus stove. The apartment is blazing, and four silhouettes emerge from its window – three men’s and one female.
Chapter 28. Recent adventures of Koroviev and Behemoth
In the store, trading for currency, the subject comes in a checkered jacket and fat man with a primus in his hands, similar to a cat. The fat man eats tangerines, herring and chocolate from the windows, and Koroviev calls on the people to protest against the fact that scarce goods are sold to foreigners for currency, not theirs for rubles. When the militia appears, team-mates hide in a fire, and move to the restaurant Griboyedov. Soon he lights up.
Chapter 29. The fate of the master and Margarita is defined
Woland and Azazello talk on the terrace of one of the Moscow buildings, looking at the city. To them is Levi Matvey and says that “he” – referring to Yeshua – read the master’s novel and asks Woland to give the author and his beloved well-deserved rest. Woland tells Azazello “to go to them and arrange everything.”
Chapter 30. It’s time! It’s time!
Azazello visits the master and Margarita in their basement. Before that, they are talking about the events of the last night – the master is still trying to comprehend them and persuade Margarita to leave him and not ruin himself with him, she absolutely believes Woland.
Azazello sets fire to the apartment, and all three, sitting on the black horses, are carried away to the sky.
Along the way, the master bids farewell to Bezdomny, whom he calls a disciple, and tells him to write a continuation of the story of Pilate.
Chapter 31. On the Sparrow Hills
Azazello, master and Margarita are reunited with Woland, Koroviev and Behemoth. The master says goodbye to the city. “In the first moments, the aching sadness crept up to her heart, but very quickly she was replaced by sweetish anxiety, wandering gypsy excitement.” His excitement turned into a feeling of bitter resentment, but that was unstable, disappeared and for some reason gave way to a proud indifference, and it is a presentiment of constant peace. “
Chapter 32. Farewell and the eternal shelter
Night falls, and in the light of the moon, the horsemen that fly across the sky change their appearance. Koroviev turns into a gloomy knight in purple armor, Azazello into a desolate demon-killer, Behemoth into a slender youth page, “the best buffoon that ever existed in the world.” Margarita does not see her transformation, but the master in her eyes gets a gray scythe and spurs. Woland explains that today is a night when all scores are reduced. In addition, he informs the master that Yeshua read his novel and noted that he, unfortunately, is not finished.
Before the eyes of the riders appear sitting in the chair man and next to the dog. Pontius Pilate for two thousand years sees the same dream – the lunar road, on which he can not go. “Free, free! He is waiting for you!” – the master shouts, releasing his hero and finishing the novel, and Pilate finally leaves with his dog along the lunar road to where Jeshua is waiting.
The master himself and his beloved are waiting, as promised, peace. “Do not you want to walk with your girlfriend during the day under cherries that start to blossom, and in the evening listen to Schubert’s music? Are not you going to be pleased to write with a goose feather with candles by the candles? Do not you like, like Faust, sit over the retort in the hope that You will be able to fashion a new homunculus there, there, there is already waiting for you a house and an old servant, the candles are already burning, and soon they will be extinguished, because you will immediately meet the dawn, “Woland describes it. “Look, there is ahead of your eternal home, which you were given as a reward.” I already see the Venetian window and the winding grapes, it rises to the roof itself. I know that in the evening those who you love, who you are interested in and who you are They will play you, they will sing to you, you will see, what light is in the room when the candles are burning. You will fall asleep, putting on your greasy and eternal cap, you will fall asleep with a smile on your lips. Sleep will strengthen you, you will reason wisely. And you can not drive me away. I will protect your dream, “Margarita replies, and the master himself feels that someone is letting him go free, just as he himself just released Pilate.
Epilogue
The investigation into the Woland case was at an impasse, and as a result all strangeness in Moscow was explained by the intrigues of gangsters. Varenukha stopped lying and rude, Bengalsky threw the entertainer, preferring to live on savings, Roman refused the position of the director of the Variety, and his place was taken by the enterprising Aloysius Mogarych. Ivan Bezdomny came out of the hospital and became a professor of philosophy, and only on full moons he was disturbed by dreams about Pilate and Yeshua, the master and Margarita.
Conclusion
The novel “Master and Margarita” Bulgakov originally conceived as a satire of the devil called “Black Magician” or “Grand Chancellor”. But after six editions, one of which Bulgakov himself burned, the book turned out to be not so much a satirical as a philosophical one, in which the devil in the form of the mysterious black magician Woland became only one of the characters. The motives of eternal love, mercy, searching for truth and triumph of justice came to the first place.
A short retelling of the “Master and Margarita” by chapters is sufficient only for an approximate understanding of the plot and the main ideas of the work – we recommend that you read the full text of the novel.
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