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Chapter 1 - Never talk to strangers Characters Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz (editor) Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyrev (poet) Woman in booth Koroviev Woland Setting - Patriarch's Moscow Berlioz (editor) and Ivan (poet) carry a sign "Beer and Soda" Get apricot water which makes them hiccup. Berlioz hullucinates and is filled with terror - disregards as stroke. Berlioz explains to Ivan that Jesus doesn't exist. While a foreigner appears from alleyway. They have a philosophical argument bringing in kant. Who governs the world? Man can't because to govern, one mus have definate plan for a length of time. If man can't govern for short period of time say 1000 years, how can he govern when he can't vouch for tomorrow? Berlioz and Ivan suspect him of being a foreign spy! The foreigner is a German professor visiting Moscow to provide consulting services. He insists that Jesus exists. Berlioz wants proof. P-5 Patriarch's Ponds Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyrev Malaya Bronnaya Street Sadovoye Ring Road P-6 Kislovodsk p-11 solovki p13 komsomol p14 sadovaya

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Chapter 1 - Never talk to strangers

CharactersMikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz (editor)Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyrev (poet)Woman in boothKorovievWoland

Setting - Patriarch's MoscowBerlioz (editor) and Ivan (poet) carry a sign "Beer and Soda"Get apricot water which makes them hiccup.Berlioz hullucinates and is filled with terror - disregards as stroke.Berlioz explains to Ivan that Jesus doesn't exist.While a foreigner appears from alleyway.They have a philosophical argument bringing in kant.Who governs the world? Man can't because to govern, one mus have definate plan for a length of time. If man can't govern for short period of time say 1000 years, how can he govern when he can't vouch for tomorrow?Berlioz and Ivan suspect him of being a foreign spy!The foreigner is a German professor visiting Moscow to provide consulting services. He insists that Jesus exists.Berlioz wants proof.

P-5Patriarch's PondsMikhail Alexandrovich BerliozIvan Nikolayevich PonyrevMalaya Bronnaya StreetSadovoye Ring Road

P-6Kislovodsk

p-11 solovki

p13komsomol

p14sadovayaannushka

p15misha

Chapter 2 - Pontius Pilate

Characters

Pontius Pilate (procurator/hegemon)

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Secretarydefendant from Galilee (Yeshua Ha-Notsri)2 legionnairesRatslayer (centurion/Mark)Dismas - Hestas - Bar-rabbanJoeseph Kaifa (high priest)Hooded manCrowd

Setting - Rome, 14th of Nisan - Hebrew calendar 1st month, march-april, Fast of the firstborn - Herod the great's palace covered with colonnade

Pontius Pilate (procurator) has hemicrania because everywhere wreaks of rose oil.he trials a defendant from galilee who incited people to destroy the temple of Yershalaim.He calls Mark (Ratslayer) to teach him how to address the procurator (not good man)He is to call Pilate, hegemon (leader). He (yeshua ha-notsri) debates his innocence and heals the procurator. Pilate tries to get yeshua to lie so that he maybe saved but yeshua wouldn't. Because it's passover. One of the four criminals maybe set free. The high priest chooses Barraban eventhough Pilate asks him again 3 times since Yeshua is the least harmful criminal. The High Priest is unwavered. Pilate argues with high priest in secrecy and decides to report the High priest to Caesar. Pilate announces to the people that Barraban will be saved. Yeshua is executed.

Chapter 3 - The 7th proof

CharactersIvanBerliozWolandKorovievfemale conductress

Setting - Patriarch's pond - evening

After the professor tells the story, it is evening.Berlioz and Ivan seemed to have dreamt through it.Berlioz says that none of what the professor told could be proved to have happened.The professor says that he was there throughout the Pontius Pilate story.Berlioz suspects him of being insane and decides to humour him.The professor then asks them if they think the devil exists.Berlioz decides to report this insane man to the Traveler's Bureau and pretends to believewhat the professor says.The professor mentions Berlioz's uncle in Kiev.Berlioz continues to look for a pay phone and is greeted by the man from his hallucination.(The choirmaster) directs him to the turnstile.A tram heads towards Berlioz, he tries to step back but slips and falls and is decapitated by the tram.

p42Metropol - 1st class hotel

p44KievHermolayevsky

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Chapter 4 - The Chase

CharactersconductressIvan2 women talk about annushkaWolandKorovievBehemothconductress that tells cat to scram5 yr old girlnaked woman in bathtubpleasent bearded man smokingmen lounging belly-up on sacks

Setting - Patriarch's pond to end of patriarch lane to nikitsky gate.Arbat square choirmaster escape - Hertzen street - house 13 apartment 47 - Moscow river - city

After hearing a scream, the poet runs to the turnstile.He sees Berlioz's head and goes in frenzy biting his hand drawing blood.Two women collide in front of Ivan talking about annushka spilling sunflower oil making Berlioz slip at the turnstile.Ivan remembers what the professor says and believes that he is responsible for Berlioz's death.He returns to the professor who plays ignorant to the russian language.Sitting next to him is the choirmaster who helps the professor escape.Ivan tries to grab the choirmaster who disappears and joins the professor.They are then both joined by a big cat walking on his hind legs.Choirmaster escapes onto moving bus.Cat tries to pay on tram but is rejected by conductress. Cat then grabs onto back of tram.Ivan sees professor and in a blink is at Hertzen street.He runs but doesn't get closer.He goes into house 13 apartment 47, goes into toilet, is mistaken for Kirrey.He then looks at the moscow river and loses his clothes.He searches the city whilst Eugene Onegin (polonaise opera) can be heard.

p 46 annushkasadovaya

p49spiridonovkanikitsky gatekopek

p50bolshoy nikitsky - hertzen streetkropotkinostozhenka

p51kirrey

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fidor ivanovich

p52griboyedov

Chapter 5 - The incident at Griboyedov

CharactersAmbrosyFokaBeskudnikov (novelist)Dvubratsky (poet)Natasia Lukinishna Nepremenova (skipper george)zagrivov (sketch writer)Jeronim Poprikhin (novelist)ababkov (critic)Gluharev (scenarist)Deniskinquanta professor of forensic medicinea pathological anatomistdissectorrepresentatives of the investigationBerlioz's assisstant directorZheldybin (writer)Hallelujah manTamara halfmoon (poetess)movie actress yellow dressDragunskyCherdakcheeSemeikina-Gull (gorgeous) architectlocal +guestsmuscovites+visitorsJohann (writer from Kronstadt)Vitaly Kooftick (stage director from Rostov)Leading representatives of MASSOLIT's poetry subdepartment:PavianovBogohoolskySladskyShpichkinAdelfina BoozdiakSeveral young menvery old man wiv onion stuck in beardelderly girl in orange silk dresswaitersarchibald achibaldovich (pirate)Ivan (apparition)doormanpanteleipolicemanRuekhin (poet)cabbie

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Settings - Griboyedov House, Boulevard Ring (antique, cream coloured, two story mansion), restaurant

p54Alexander Sergeyevich GriboyedovYalta

p55PoklevkinaSuuk-suBorovoyeTsikhidziriMahindjauriLeningrad

p56Fokaambrosyarchibald archibaldovich

p57BeskudnikovDvubratsky

p58KliazmaNatasia Lukinishna NepremenovazagrivovJeronim PoprikhinababkovlavrovichDeniskin

p59quantZheldybin

p60DragunskyCherdakcheeSemeikina-GullJohann KronstadtVitaly KooftickRostovPavianovBogohoolskySladskyShpichkinAdelfina Boozdiak

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p62skatertny

p65pantelei

2 People eat at restaurant.12 people wait in hot stuffy room for Berlioz, they get fed up and go to restaurant. No room in veranda, in pretty stuffy room.Everyone dances.The pirate tells the news of Berlioz's death.12 people leave to write orbituraries.Ivan enters in underwear and warns people of the professor.People think he's mad and take him away.

Chapter 6 - Schizophrenia, as described

CharactersIvanRuekhindoctororderliesnursedrivermetal man

Setting - nuthouse - road - street

p67 kulak

Ivan sits on couch in nuthouse.Doctor questions Ivan and gets the nurse to take notes.Ruekin is nervous.Ivan tries to escape but is sedated.Doctor says he has schizophrenia.Ruekin goes home and tells Archie, he has a sip of vodka.

Chapter 7 - A Fishy Apartment (tv series goes 2 pontius pilate part 2)

CharactersStiopa Likhodeyev (director of variety theatre)Stiopa's wifeBelioz's wifeWolandGrunia (housekeeper)Gregory DanilovichKorovievBehemothazazello

Setting -Stiopa's bedroom (jeweler's wife's former bed) - u shape building on sadovaya street, apartment 50- Yalta

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p74 Stiopa Likhodeyev

p75 Anna Francevna de FougeretBelomutAnfice (housekeeper)

p76Grunia (housekeeper)

p77Stephan Bogdanovich

p78SchodniaHoustov (sketch writer)Woland

p81RimskyDanilovich

p82 Voronezh

p83Azazello

p84Yalta

Stiopa is in bed, a mess, vaguely remembering some lady from last night. he doesn't want to get up and cries for Grunia and Misha (Berlioz). The professor sits by his bed feeds him and tells him about the contract they signed yesterday. Stiopa checks with variety's financial director. He sees the cat and asks Grunio where the cat had come from. He finds Woland's entourage in his room and Azazello sends him to Yalta.

Chapter 8 - The Duel of the professor and the poet

CharactersIvanPlump nurseDr Stravinskyfiodor vasilyevich

Settings - Clinic bedroom - clinic bathroom - clinic kitchen

p88 Fiodorvologdastravinsky

p90 fedia

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p91 vasilyevich

Ivan wakes up presses button and calls in attendant. Attendant gies him a bath and takes him to canteen to interrogate him about his history and relatives. He was then taken to his bedroom, given breakfast and shortly afterwards, a multitude of people led by dr stravinsky entered his room. Ivan explains to the dr that he is a normal person and tells him of what happened yesterday. The dr convinces Ivan that he will come back even if he is released so he decides to stay and write to the authority about the foreign professor.

Chapter nine -Koroviev's Capers

CharactersNikanor Ivanovich Bosoi (chairman of the tenants' association)Crowd of personal petitionsKoroviev (choirmaster)Pelagea Antonovna (chairman’s wife)2 Unknown officers

p94 Zeldybin

p99 Pelagea Antonovna

p100 Timofei Kvastsov

Settings: outside aparment #50, in Berlioz's quarters

Diffs – doesnt knock goes straight inNo tickets

A crowd of tenants petition their rights personally to the chairman, the chairman hurries into apartment #50 and finds Koroviev demanding the need to rent out the whole apartment. Koroviev pays him, they both sign contracts and Koroviev gives him an extra wad of cash. He goes home where his wife brings him food. Woland wants to get rid of him. Two unknown men search the chairman's house, finds the wad of cash in ventilation shaft which turns into foreign dollars and they take the chairman away.

Chapter 10 – News from yalta

CharactersRimsky (variety financial director)Varenukha (variety manager) (Ivan Savelievich)black catred hair mannaked ginger lady

Settings The Variety offic and box office

p103 VarenukhaKarpov

p109 Savelievich

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p110 Pushkino

At the office, Varenukha comes in to give a poster of Woland's show to the fin-director. Hy all impatiently wait for tiopa who's in Yalta. A telegram comes from Yalta criminal investigators claiming they found Stiopa. They don't believe it, sends one back to say that Stiopa is in moscow. Another telegram arrives, says he's hynotized by Woland. They confer some more and try to get a hold of Woland. Another telegram arrives with Stiopa's handwriting. The fin-director gets all the telegrams together and tells Verenukha to get “them” to sort it out. He rushes off, and a phone call tells him to leave the telegrams. He doesn't and gets beaten up by the cat and red haired man and thrown to a place with a naked ginger lady who wants to ksis him.

Chapter Eleven – A rift in Ivan

CharactersIvanPraskovia Fiodorovna

Settings Clinic bedroom

p114 Praskovia Fiodorovna

Ivan is trying to write a statement to the police about what happened but finds himself sounding more and more like a madman so starts to cry. Nurse gets doctor, doctor jabs Ivan and tells him everything will be alright. When Ivan wakes up, he wonders why he had acted so erratic and begins to dose off, then a man appears at his window and tells him to “shhhhh”

Chapter 12 – Black magic and it's exposure

CharactersGiulli familyRimskyWolandKorovievBehemothBengalskyArkady Appolonovich Sempleyarov ( chairman of acoustics commission of theatres)The spouseThe distant relative (aspiring actress)

Settings : variety show theatre

p119 Giulli

p121 Bengalsky

p123 ParchevskyZelkova

p130 Arkady Appolonovich SempleyarovSaratovYelohovskayaMilitsa Andreyevna Pokobatko

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Giulli family's bicycle troop comes on and performs in the variety show. Then Rimsky meets Woland's troop. They then perform on stage, summoning a chair from thin air. Behemoth and Koroviev does a card trick. The emcee annoys Koroviev and they decapitate him and put it bak on when blood flies everywhere. Fagot then turns the stage into a boutique where women go crazy and grab all the clothes. When it disappears, Arkady asks for the exposure. Fagot exposes Arkady's affair and Behemoth ends the show by asking the band to play a march.

Chapter 13 – Enter the hero

CharactersMasterIvanPraskovia Fiodorovna

Settings: Clinic bedroom

p133 Praskovia Fiodorovna

p135 KurolesovLatunski (critic)Mstislav (writer)

p136 Lavrovich

p138 Miasnitskaya

p139 Arbat

p140 Tverskaya

p141 Varenka ManechkaKremlin

p144Latunsky (critic)Ariman (critic)Mstislav Lavrovich (writer))Lapshennikova (editorial secretary)

p146Aloysius Mogarych

The Master climbs in through the balcony because he has Praskovia's keys. He listens to Ivan's entire story and sounds ever so interested. He then reveals himself to be a writer who had written a book about Pontius Pilate and tells Ivan about the events that surrounded this book of his. He wins the lottery, quits his job at the museum, rents a place in Arbat and begins the book. In Arbat, he meets a woman carrying yellow flowers and they flirt with each other. They would then meet everyday, secretly. The editor doesn't like the book Reviews were then written in the papers slagging his book off. After the noel was finished they spent less time together because the master makes a friend, Aloysius who explains to him very convincingly why he couldn't possibly have published his book. Then the master began to become fearful of the dark. His mistress then grew

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pale and asked for forgiveness for her advice to publish the excerpt and told him to run away to the black sea. He then had a crazy urge to burn his Pontius Pilate book and does so in the furnace. The mistress comes into the house wet from the rain and grabs what's left of the book. He promises to heal the master and promises to leave her husband for the master. They are interrupted because the emcee joins the facility in room 120. 15 mins after the woman left, men knocked on his window. He then decides to go to the clinic in the cold. He does not want to tell the mistress and upset her with a letter form the nuthouse. He hitches a ride from a truck to get to the clinic. Ivan then asks what happens to Pilate and Jesus afterwards. The master can't tell him without being scared and disappears off the balcony.

Chapter 14 – Glory to the rooster

CharactersRimskyVarenukha

Settings – Variety theatre, fin-firector's office,

p156 Pushkinop160 Leningrad

Rimsky escapes to his office, and peers out his window seeing lots of naked women about. He tries to make phone calls to exonerate himself but it starts ringing and a woman tells him not to make any calls. He gets terrified and Varenukha walks in and tells him he has found Stiopa not in Yalta. Rimsky believes he's lying and sees that Varenukha isn't producing a shadow. Varenukha knows he's exposed and a naked woman mosnter tries to claw her way into the room. When she suceeds a rooster calls three times and they both fly off. Rimsky runs away onto a train and it disappears along with him.

Chapter 15 – Nikanor Ivanovich's dream

CharactersBosoiClinic interviewer(dream )BosoiactoraudinceDunchillIda HerculanovnaSavva Potapovich KurolesovNikolai KanavkinPraskovia Fiodorovna

Settings – A desk, a cabinet and a couch - Clinic

p163Prolezhnev

p168KarkovIda herculanovna Vors

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p169 Pushkin

p170 Nikolai KanavkinPorokhovnikovaPrechistenkaClaudia Ilyinichnap 171 Einemp172 Lianozovo

Nikanor is interviewed in a room about his foreign currency. He tells them that Koroviev is the devil and hallucinates, seeing him in the corner of the room demanding it be sprayed with holy water. Some people are then sent to apartment 50, but all the wax seals were in place and no neighbour knew the name Koroviev. He is then thrown into the clinic where he is given Stravinsky's special formula to sleep better. He then experiences a dream where the emcee asks him to turn in his foreign currency. The emcee goes on to talk about Dunchill and Kurolesov's fates for not handing in their foreign currency to the country. It is useless to them but not the country. He then convinces an audience member to hand in their currency. Then some cooks appear while he's waking up who turns out to be doctors. The nurse injects him and he has a dreamless sleep.

Chapter 16 – The execution

CharactersYeshuaRatslayerguardsmatthew Levi

Setting – Bald Mountain

On a scorching day, the carts of the prisoners were being pulled up Bald mountain. Carts with prisoners with a board hung on their necks. As the officials watched the execution they would drink water and curse at the prisoners hoping they die faster so they can go home. Four hours before, Matthew Levi tried to run to see Yeshua but was beaten and bruised by guards so he finds another hiding place. He starts to blame himself for Yeshua's fate. He then thought to save Yeshua from torture by sneaking onto his cart and killing him and then killing himself but he didn't have a knife so he steals one from a bread shop. He is then unable to catch up to Yeshua and curses God for letting him die. A storm appears. A soldier wakes Yeshua up and gives him water before stabbing killing him. Rain pours down and Levi runs to take Yeshua's body away, freeing the others as well.

Chapter 17 – A Troublesome Day

CharactersVariety staffVassily Stepanovich Lastochkinmadame rimskyace of diamondsswearing driveranna richardovnaProkhor Petrovich

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Settings, Variety theatre, Varenukha's office, taxi, main office

p186 KudrinskayaVassily Stepanovich Lastochkinp190 Zubovskayap191Prokhor Petrovichp192 Proshap193 Vagankovskyp195 LermontovFanovKosarchuk

There is a huge queue outside the Variety and some detectives come and calls all the staff together. They question the staff about the black magic act but nobody can give any detail. The book-keeper then goes to deposit the money made from yesterday. One taxi took him and is angry about people giving him 10 ruble notes that turn into bottle labels or a bee from woland's show. When he arrives at the office, he sees people screaming and running away. He hears anna wailing and finds a suit writing and answering phones. Anna says that a behemoth did this to him. Policemen arrive and the book-keeper sneaks away and walks to the entertainment commission's branch office where everybody were hypnotized and forced to sing against their wills about freedom and convicts. A doctor then administers valerian to them and they stop singing. The book-keeper asks if they've seen a cat but the girl describes Koroviev who the manager brought in for a singing club. He helped them with verse one of “Grand old seascape” before disappearing. Everyone then just sang against their own will, they then find out that the valerian didn't work and they are all sent to the clinic by truck. The book-keeper then checks his money into a bank but they turn out to be foreign notes and he is arrested on the spot.

Chapter 18 – Unfortunate visitors

CharactersMaximilian Andreyevich Poplavsky (berlioz's uncle)PiatnazhkoBehemothKorovievAzazelloAndrei Fokich SokovHellaWolandKuzminXenia Nikitishna

Settings, Variety office, apartment 50, liver doctor's surgery

p198 KievMaximilian Andreyevich Poplavskyp199 DnieperVladimirp200 Piatnazhkop203 Leo TolstoyOblonskyp206 Andrei Fokich SokovBaron Meigel

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p213 BernadskyKuzminp215 Xenia Nikitishnap216 Maria AlexandrovnaBuret

The uncle gets telegram from Berlioz telling him to go to his funeral. He then realises that there is a free apartment and needs to register his tenancy at the tenancy's association. He tells Piatnazhko that he is the sole heir of Belioz's apartment. A man comes in, whispers in his ear and Poplavsky is left alone. He goes to apartment 50 and finds Behemoth. He introduces himself to Korokiev who starts crying. Behemoth asks to see his passport and gets Azazello to throw him out. Andrei asks him where apartment 50 is. He tells him and darts into a closet where he could see the front door. Andrei rings the doorbell and a naked woman answers. He is then told to go inside the office where he finds Woland. Woland tells him he doesn't want any of the bartender's food and offers him a seat which breaks. He then inquires about the séance because all the tens he was given turned into bits of paper. They all turn normal again. He leaves his hat before he leaves and goes to get it back. Hella gives him a hat and sword. The hat turns into cat. He goes to Kuzmin the liver doctor who says nothing wrong with liver. Then strange things happen, sparrows on his desk and a man dressed as a nurse gives him leeches.

Chapter 19 – Margarita

CharactersMargarita NikolayevnaNatashaDon JuanAzazello

Settings Margarita's house – Alexandrovsky gardens

P221 Margarita Nikolayevnap225 dariaTsverkayap226 ZheldybinManegep227 Don Juanp231 Niura

Margarita woke up after dreaming about the master thinking something amazing will happen. He goes to a windowless room and takes everything she has of the master out, she reads what's lef tof the book, cries and hides everything again. Natasha tells her about the séance but she does not believe Natasha and leaves. She arrives at a bench and talks to the master in her head. Don Juan asks her about the weather but scares him away. A funeral march comes and Azazello tells her that it's Berlioz's funeral. He tells her that Woland wants to see her and entices her with news of the master and giving her some cream.

Chapter 20 – Azazello's cream

CharactersMargarita NikolayevnaNatasha

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Nikolai IvanovichAzazello

Settings – magarita's room

Margarita applies the cream to herself in front of her dresser and the wrinkles and crow feet and blemishes all disappear. She rubs it all over herself and feels free. She flies into her husband's room and writes him a letter saying that she's leaving him. She gives most of her stuff to Natasha and teases Nikolai Ivanovich before flying off.

Chapter 21 – The flight (friday)

CharactersMagaritanatashaNikolai ivanovichNaked guyhalf goatmermaidsbird driver

Settings – city, DRAMLIT house – apartment 84 (latunsky's) – miles from Moscow – Yensei river

p240 Pelagea Petrovnap244 Sitnikp247 Natalia Prokofievnap248 Claudia Petrovna

Magarita flies past a house where people argue and shuts them up. She flies into the DRAMLIT house and looks for Latunsky's apartment where she floods it, smashing everything including piano. She then flies out and smashes the DRAMLIT house's windows. Until she came to a frightened little boy's window where she flew in and comforted him before flying away again. She flew past cities when she saw a black object approaching her as she flew. It was Natasha who had also used the cream and rubbed it onto Nikolai's bald head who turned into a pig for her to ride. Natasha asks Magarita to let her stay a witch and Magarita promises to ask. She then dives into this lake where she finds a naked guy. She calls her broom and flies to the other side of the bank where she encounters half goat and mermaids. He brings her champagne and calls for a car which falls from the sky driven by a bird. It drives off and the island disappears.

Chapter 22 – By Candlelight

Charactersbird driverMargaritaAzazellorandom menKorovievHellaWolandBehemothAbbadon

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Settings – In the car – cemetery near Dorogomilovo – apartment 50

p253 Dorogomilovoemlianoy Val

The car flies to a nearby cemetry drops margarita and leaves. Margarita meets azazello and they both fly to Sadovaya, him on a rapier. They arrive at apartment 50 and are thrust into darkness as they descend a infinite staircase they see Koroviev with a lamp. They arrive at a small room where all the other devils are. Behemoth is playing chess with Woland. Hella is rubbing cream on Woland's knee. Margarita helps rub ointment and Abbadon appears an disappears. Natasha is allowed to stay with Margarita and the pig sits with the cooks.

Chapter 23 – Satan's grand ball

CharactersMargaritaBehemothKorovievAzazelloNatashaHellaAfricansGuestsmonsieur jaques + wifeEarl RobertMadame TofanaFriedaMadame MinkinaGaius Caesar Caligula and MessalinaEmperor RudolfBerlioz' headBaron Meigel

Settings – Apartment 50

Natasha and Hella bathe Margarita in blood and all the other devils help to dress her in a heavy necklace and painful feet frames. Koroviev warns her of what she must and must've do and they arrive at the ball. The first guests arrive in a coffin and a gallows, their corpses turning into humans. Margarita greets every guest, hours pass and the chains grow heavy, she places her hand on the pedestal and winces as she greets the guests. After the last two guests are greeted she finds herself in the small room and bursts into tears. Hella and Natasha bathe and massages her. Koroviev tells her she must go back so the guests don't feel neglected. She returns and Woland enters with Berlioz's head, he turns it into a cup and kills Baron meigel whose blood flows into the cup, he drinks some and hands it to Margarita to drink, the party morphs back into apartment 50.

p274 Maliuta Skuratov

Chapter 24 – The extraction of the Master

CharactersMargarita

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HellaWolandKorovievBehemothAzazelloFriedathe MasterMogarychNatashaIvan NikolaiVarenukhaAnnushka (apartment 48)

Setting – Apartment 50 – the master's basement

p292 – Mogarychp301 Petrovasmolensky

Behemoth gives pure alcohol to Margarita which makes her regain her strength and hunger. They dine. Azazello does a gun trick and Behmoth tries but fails. Margarita senses it's time for her to go, Woland stops her and gives her a wish. She wants Frieda to stop receiving the hankerchief used to kill her son. She is pardoned but this time Woland wants Margarita to have something for herself. She chooses the master, who appears in a distressed state. Koroviev gives him something to drink and he comes to. He tells Woland about his novel and Woland asks what he can do for the couple. Margarita wants everything to be back like it was. Mogarych appear, is exposed and thrown out the window. Koroviev tweaks a few tenant documents making Mogarych not exist, gives Magarita her belongings. Natasha was proposed to by Monsieur Jacques and is allowed to stay with him. The pig is given a document stating where he was last night (at the ball). Varenukha is allowed to not be a vampire. Woland gives Magarita a golden horseshoe with diamond studs. Woland's devils escort them out, Magarita loses her horseshoe in the courtyard where the flying car was waiting and Azazello goes to see what has happened. Annushka finds it and hides it. Azazello throttles her and she gives it back so Azazello thanks her with 200 rubles. Azazello gives it back to Margarita and all the devils bid farewell to Margarita. They arrive at their basement, the master goes to sleep and Margarita reads the manuscript.

Chapter 25 – How the procurator tried to save Judas of Kiriath

characterspilateafrican servantAphraniussettings – Pilate's quarters

Pilate smashes a wine jug on floor and shouts at the african servant who hides. Aphranius arrives and chats with Pilate about Jerusalem and the unrest in the city. Pilate tells him that he received info that Judas will be killed tonight and his betrayal money returned to the high priest.

Chapter 26 – The Burial

Characters

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Settings

Chapter 27 - The End of Apartment #50

CharactersMargarita'sThe masterArkady Appolonovich Sempleyarov+spouseKitaitsevProkhor PetrovichRimskyIvan (homeless)VarenukhaAnnushkaNikolaiAzazelloKorovievBehemoth2 plumbers

Settings – the master's basement, apartment 50

p337 Kamenny Bridgep338 Kitatsev (head of programming department of Entertainment Commission)

As margarita finishes reading, it is morning. Arkady, is woken up and asked questions about Woland down the phone. Kitaitsev says that there is no way Stiopa could've signed papers with Woland. Stiopa is confirmed to be coming back to Moscow from Yalta. Prokhor returns to his suit. Rimsky is found in a closet at a Hotel. The non-stop singers are healed. Ivan Nikolayevich is questioned. Varenukha is questioned along with Annushka and Nikolai. It is then reported that people were living in apartment 50, a black cat is seen and piano music is heard. Men then come to arrest the devils. They burst through the door, find Behemoth and try to capture him but he is shot. He recovers after drinking gasoline and a gunfight ensues while he is on a chandelier. He then sets the apartment on fire.

Chapter 27 – The Final Adventures of Koroviev and Behemoth

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Koroviev and Behemoth are stopped by the doorman of the store. Behemoth transforms into a human but the doorman says they need foreign currrency, they barge in anyway. They enter the grocery section and Behemoth starts eating oranges and fish without paying. The authorities come to stop them and they set the whole place on fire. They then move onto the writer's restaurant but are stopped by a lady. Archibald lets them in and gives them the best table and personally serves them. Petrakov's wife gets jealous. Boba arrives and sits with the Petrakovs and tells them about apartment 50. 3 men come in to shoot the devils, they disappear and fire emerges from the primus setting the restaurant on fire.

Chapter 29 – The fate of the master and margarita decided

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Azazello and Woland watch he sunset together. Woland asks where the other two are. Matthew Levi comes and tells Woland to give peace to the master and margarita. He accepts and gets Azazello to arrange everything. Behemoth and Koroviev come back and tells Woland what they have been up to and they are dismissed.

Chapter 30 – It's time, it's time

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