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It would have been a little odd if Bulgakov, at the beginning of The Master and Margarita had mentioned that «Any resemblance to any real characters is pure coincidence». Since, besides the crowd scenes and the unnamed extras, the novel is populated by countless characters who play a role in the satire intended by the author.

The characters described by Bulgakov are often parodies of real people, such as Iakov Rozental, the director of the restaurant of the Herzen House in Moscow, who plays approximately the same role in the novel as Archibald Archibaldovich, the director of the restaurant of the Griboedov House writers' house, or Baron Steiger, who in Moscow in the 1930s was just as much of a stool pigeon as Baron Meigel in the novel, and who also spent a lot of time in the vicinity of foreigners.

Bulgakov also often describes literary figures who had troubled him in real life and to whom he gives a role in the novel that magnifies their shortcomings. Examples of this are MKHAT director Vladimir Ivanovich Nyemirovich-Dalchenko who, as the master of ceremont Bengalsky, is ridiculed on the stage of the Variety Theatre, and the poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky who had written an «ideologically correct» poem for Pushkin, and who, as Aleksander Riukhin, hurls all sorts of reproaches at the same Pushkin in the novel. And there are many more examples.

And sometimes far less characters had to take the rap for it, such as his own neighbour Annushka Goryacheva in the notorious apartment number 50 of Bolshaya Sadovaya to air his criticism of the Soviet Union of his time. She even kept her real name in the novel.

Sometimes the characters in Moscow are not representatives of real prototypes, but they have names that are allusions to situations in the Soviet Union that Bulgakov wanted to satirize, such as Bogokhulsky (the blasphemer), or Likhodeev (the wretch). And sometimes the names allude to irritating character traits that Bulgakov attributed to the prototypes of the characters in real life. Examples of these are Mogarych, the man who informs on the master and takes his basement, and Bosoy, the upstart chairman of the residents' association

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