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It was a hot summer night in July 2003 and I was admiring the Eiffel Tower from the open window of a nice penthouse at the Avenue Émile Zola in Paris. I was talking to Tatiana Poppel, a Russian friend who lived there. We were discussing literature and I told her about my favourite novel, Cien años de soledad, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. And then it was her turn. She told me a strange, but funny story about the Devil visiting Moscow. I was listening and I was amused, but without really trying to remember the name of the novel nor its author. But the story never left me. It was saved in my brains forever.
One year later the images came back, and how! Another Russian friend of mine, Irina Ternovaya, advised me to read The Master and Margarita, written by Mikhail Bulgakov. And so I did. With quite some dramatic consequences. I lost my heart in Moscow, it will stay there forever and I started learning Russian because, one day, I want to be able to read it in the original language...
You can use the menu at the top to learn more about Mikhail Bulgakov, the story and its themes, the political and social context, the characters and the locations, and discover how this novel inspired many others to create music, movie pictures or theatre plays. Have a regular look at the newspage too, because Bulgakov is still alive…
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31.10.2020 - Everything about The Master and Margarita
Today the Dutch version of a new book written by your webmaster has been published under the title Alles wat u altijd al wilde weten over De meester en Margarita or Everything You Always Wanted to Know about The Master and Margarita. It's the most complete book ever published on the masterpiece of Mikhail Bulgakov.
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24.08.2020 - Illustrations by Alexander Semushin
Today we added to this website a page with illustrations for The Master and Margarita by the Russian artist Alexander Semushin from Togliatti.
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22.08.2020 - Illustrations panalevich
Today we added to this website a page with illustrations for The Master and Margarita by a Russian artist who calls himself panalevich.
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24.07.2020 - Animation Galina Sokolova
Today we added to this website a page with the short animation film Margarita and the Master by Galina Sokolova.
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14.07.2020 - ABC Radio National
Today we added to this website a podcast of Manuscripts Don't Burn, Rosa Ellen's radio programme about The Master and Margarita on the Australian channel ABC Radio National.
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08.06.2020 - On Patriarch's ponds
Today we have added to this website a page about the short comic strip On Patriarch's Ponds by the Russian artist Ksenia Voloshkina (°1999).
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04.06.2020 - Prize of the Audience
The Polish animation film maker Gabi Bania won the Audience Award at the Booktrailer Film Festival 2020 in Brescia, Italy, with her film Mistrz i Małgorzata.
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10.05.2020 - Would-be Margaritas
Today we added to this website a page on some women who thought that Bulgakov had them in mind when he created the character of Margarita.
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23.02.2020 - Music by Katy Kononova and MC TJ
Today we added to this website a page on the song Мастер и маргарита [Master i Margarita] by the Russian occasional duo Katy Kononova and MC TJ.
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22.02.2020 - Illustrations by Vyacheslav Zhelvakov
Today we added to this website a new page on the illustrations for The Master and Margarita made by the Russian artist Vyacheslav Zhelvakov.
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20.02.2020 - Music by Trails Don't Lie
Today we added to this website a new page on the song Master i Margarita, released by the Russian band Тропы не врут [Tropy ne vrut] or Trails Don't Lie. It sounds like Russian bards on speed.
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10.02.2020 - News from the movies
There is news about the screen adaptations of The Master and Margarita which are being prepared both in the United States and in Russia. But we do not know yet if there is any real progress.
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02.02.2020 - Illustrations by Jan Vanhellemont
Today we added to this website a page about the illustrations that your webmaster made for his recently published book about The Master and Margarita. It concerns 33 gouaches - one per chapter - that were made in December 2019 and January 2020.
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24.01.2020 - Our book in Dutch
Today we published the Dutch version of our book to commemorate the 80th anniversary of The Master and Margarita. With illustrations made by your webmaster.
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22.01.2020 - Illustrations by Julia Galkina
Today we added to this website a page about the illustrations for The Master and Margarita made by the Russian artist Julia Galkina.
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16.01.2020 - Illustrations by Andrey Vladimirovich Nikolaev
Today we added to this website a page about the illustrations for The Master and Margarita made by the Russian artist Andrey Vladimirovich Nikolaev (1922-2013).
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01.01.2020 - Book about the novel
Today we added to this website a page about the book we are publishing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of The Master and Margarita. With illustrations made by your webmaster.
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17.12.2019 - Illustrations by A.V. Rybyakov
Today we added to this website a page about the Russian illustrator A.V. Rybyakov who made a series of illustrations for the novel The Master and Margarita.
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11.12.2019 - Baz Luhrmann
Film producers Svetlana Migunova-Dali and Grace Loh have signed a partnership agreement with the well-known director Baz Luhrmann to film The Master and Margarita.
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19.11.2019 - Greeting cards
Your webmaster made three illustrations for The Master and Margarita, which have been printed in a limited edition on glossy greeting card paper, format 13 cm x 18 cm. They can be yours if you make an order in our web shop.
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23.09.2019 - Sequels of the novel
Today we added to this website a page on the various attempts which have been made to write a sequel of the novel The Master and Margarita. There are quite some!
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12.09.2019 - Animation film by Anya Conservi
Today we published on this website a page on a short animation movie of The Master and Margarita made by the Russian artist Anya Conservi.
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09.08.2019 - Comic strip by Eva Morgan
Today we published on this website a page on a short comic strip of The Master and Margarita made by the Russian artist Eva Morgan.
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17.07.2019 - The Curse of Woland
Today we published on this website a page on actors in Vladimir Bortko's TV-series Master i Margarita from 2005 who died unexpectedly. Kirill Lavrov, Valery Zolotukhin, Aleksander Abdulov, Vladislav Galkin... 15 deaths, 4 accidents, and still counting.
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Films and TV-series
Along with much information on the novel, you will also find on this site different films and TV-series based on The Master and Margarita, and subtitled in English by your webmaster.
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Your guide through the novel
In this section are explained, per chapter, all typical notions, names of people and places, quotations and expressions from the novel with a description of the political, social, economical and cultural context.
In the media
Artists keep using the theme of The Master and Margarita in their movies, music, theatre pieces and drawings.
Bulgakov's Moscow
Have a look at the most impor-tant places from the novel at a single glance using this click-able map of Moscow.
Virtual tour of Yershalaim
Have a look at all the places of Yershalaim seen from the air, from the Antonia Tower to the palace of Herod.
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