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Mikhail Bulgakov

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The Master and Margarita

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The story

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The story - time frame

The sources of Mikhail Bulgakov
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Interpretations and comments

Interpretations and comments - Marko Fondse
Interpretations and comments - Marianne Gourg
Interpretations and comments - Pevear
Interpretations and comments - Alfred Barkov
Interpretations and comments - Studies and essays about the novel
Opponents of the novel

Themes, style and form

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Style and form

Satire
Absurdity
Style
Authorial text

Themes

Faust
Musical themes
Poetry


Context

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Historical and political context

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The Reds and the Whites
The Stalin era
Stalin's personality
The People's Commissariats
The secret police
The Gulag
The official atheism

Speech of Lenin
Documentary about Lenin
Lies about the famine
Propaganda film from the Stalin era
Propaganda posters from the Stalin era

Manuscripts don't burn

Economical context

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Roubles and beryozkas
Roubles and chervontsi
Housing in the Soviet Union

Social and cultural context

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Russian names
Russians and foreigners
Russians and their dachas
Calendar issues
Russian and Dutch

The literary scenery

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Artists and censorship
Samizdat
Alexander Pushkin


Characters

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Main characters

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The Master
Margarita
Woland

Moscow characters

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Annushka
Archibald Archibaldovich
Michail Aleksandrovich Berlioz
Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyrjov (Bezdomny)
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy
Latunski, Ariman en Lavrovich
Stefan Bogdanovich Likhodeev (Styopa)
Baron Meigel
Aloisy Mogarych
Maksimilian Andreevich Poplavski
Alexander Riukhin
Arkady Appolonovich Sempleyarov
Andrey Fokich Sokov
Doctor Stravinsky
The writers at Griboedov's
Other Moscow characters

Demonic characters

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Koroviev
Behemoth
Azazello
Abaddon
Hella
The guests at the ball
Frida

Biblical characters

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Aphranius
Dismas and Gestas
Judas of Kiriath
Joseph Kaifa
Matthew Levi
Pontius Pilate
Yeshua Ha-Nozri
Other biblical characters


Locations

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Locations of the novel

Patriarch's Ponds
The Variety Theatre
Dramlit
Bolshaya Sadovaya
Griboedov
Arbat
The basement
Stravinsky's hospital
The Alexander Garden
Margarita's house
The house on the embankment
The Torgsin store
The Spaso house
The Pashkov house
Sparrow hills

Other locations

The Moscow Art theatre
The Taganka theatre
Café Margarita
Baltschug Kempinski
Tramway A
Metro stations
Kotelnisyeskaya Naberezhnaya
Yeliseyev's Emporium
Restaurants
The Pushkin Museum

Yershalaim

Virtual tour in Yershalaim


Media

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Film

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TV-serials

Vladimir Bortko - 2005
Maciej Wojtyszko - 1990

Movie pictures

Giovanni Brancale - 2008
Ibolya Fekete - 2005
Sergei Desnitsky - 1996
Yuri Kara - 1994
Paul Bryers - 1992
Andras Szirtes - 1990
Aleksandar Petrovic - 1972
Andrzej Wajda - 1972

Animated films

Terentij Oslyabya - 2008
Svetlana Petrova/Natalya Berezovaya - 1997

Theatre

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The Master Project - 2010
Theater company Tryater - 2010
Århus Teater - 2010
Teater Accent - 2009
Lune de Mire - 2009
Mum Puppettheatre - 2008
Nemzeti színház - 2005
Théâtre du Voyageur - 2004
Oskaras Koršunovas Theater - 2000

Music

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Rock & Roll

Year Long Disaster - 2010
R.M. Isaiah - 2010
De Kift - 2009
Yorick - 2006
Franz Ferdinand - 2004
The Lawrence Arms 2003
The Tea Party - 2001
Pearl Jam - 1998
XIII. Stoleti - 1994
The Rolling Stones - 1968

Franz Ferdinand - Love And Destroy
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

Popular music

The Belly of the Whale - 2009
The Moscow Childerns' Variety Theatre - 2009
Sasha Duma - 2007
DJ Bulgakov - 2006
Yuri Kouznetsoff - 2006
Valery Leontev - 1986
Sergei Minaev - 1986
Igor Nikolaev - 1982
Ennio Morricone - 1972
Zsuzsa Koncz - 1972

The Moscow Childerns' Variety Theatre - Master i Margarita
Sasha Duma - Ne Platsj, Margo!
Zsuzsa Koncz - Margarita

Classical music

Ensemble Raro - 2010
Alexander Gradsky - 2009
Małgorzata Zalewska - 2007
Valentin Doebovskoy - 2004
Evgeny Baev - 2003
The Pikoul Sisters - 2002
York Höller - 2000
Alexander Telnikoff - 1999
Eduard Lazarev - 1995
Andrei Petrov - 1985
Rainer Kunad - 1983
Sergei Slonimsky - 1972

Małgorzata Zalewska - The Master and Margarita
The Pikoul Sisters - I Don't Care

Other music genres

Video Jack - 2009
Alfred Schnittke - 2005
Simon Nabatov - 2001

Video Jack - The Master and Margarita

Comic strips

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Le maître et Marguerite - Askold Akishine
Master i Margarita - Allison R. Barbour
Master and Margarita - Andrzej Klimowski
Master i Margarita - Rodion Tanaev

Covers

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Covers Dutch
Covers English
Covers French
Covers Russian
Covers Others
Covers Special
Cover Hermitage

Illustrations

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Svetlana Borshchenko
Kacper Bozek
Arina Gheorghita
Glushenko and others
Slawka Gorna
Nadya Grunina
Rezo Kaishauri
Gennadi Kalinovski
Igor Kantorovitch
Sergej Kaptilkin
Leonid Kovtun
Ivan Kulik
Jean Daniel Lorieux
Andrei Nabokov
Pavel Orinyansky
Viktor Vasilevich Prokofiev
Nadya Rusheva
Yevgeny Shtyrov
Laura the Shawl
Charlie Stone
Herman Van Gestel
Pavel Zablotski
Vyacheslav Zhelvakov


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Archives

Bulgakov's sources (5)
Writings of Bulgakov (21)
Essays about The Master and Margarita (42)
Essays about the Sovjet era (10)