Then Koroviev, Behemoth, and Woland chase him from the apartment and magically transport him to a jetty in Yalta, many miles away from Moscow. Woland explains that Styopa agreed to sign his variety show to perform at the Variety Theater for seven performances and to advance him a payment of 35,000 roubles. Meanwhile, as Chapter 7 begins, Stepan Bogdanovich Likhodyev, or Styopa (and also Berlioz's roommate in apartment Number 50), wakes from a drunken night on the town to discover Woland in his room. Later, when he wakes up in Chapter 8, he has a discussion with Professor Stravinsky in which logic is used to convince him that he must remain as a patient in the hospital. Ivan tells the doctor in a disorganized and crazed fashion that Berlioz died at the hands of a foreign professor, who was with Pontius Pilate at the time of Jesus' death he is tranquilized when he attempts to jump from the window, and the doctor diagnoses him with schizophrenia and alcoholism. The police are called, and Ivan is taken to Professor Stravinsky's mental hospital by Ryukhin. In the process he loses his clothes and causes a scene at Griboyedov's, where writers and critics have been waiting for Berlioz to start a meeting. Ivan is baffled and disoriented he decides to get to the bottom of the evening's strange events, and embarks on a mad pursuit after Woland, Koroviev, and Behemoth the tomcat around the city. Back in Moscow, Woland correctly predicts Berlioz's impending death by being beheaded by a streetcar. After being pressured by the high priest Joseph Kaifa, Pilate publicly condemns Yeshua to death. Yehudah had betrayed him in front of state authority. Pilate is questioning Yesha Ha-Nozri though he does not want to condemn Yeshua, he realizes he must after he asks Yeshua about his conversation with Yehudah of Kerioth. He challenges their atheism with a story, which is the reader's first introduction to Pilate's world. The novel begins on a Wednesday night in Moscow at Patriarch's Ponds, where Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz and Ivan Nikolaevich Ponyrev have a mysterious encounter with Professor Woland, who is the devil. "It is not hindering anyone and breaks no law but, on the contrary, serves as a reminder of events associated with this place in Bulgakov's immortal work 'The Master and Margarita,'" the spokesperson said.įacebook user Alexander Vilensky has claimed credit for installing the sign after being tormented by a "deep sense of bitterness and injustice" during a drunken stroll around the downtown neighborhood because it had no memorial to Bulgakov's work.The Master and Margarita takes place in two worlds: Moscow, between Wednesday night and the following Saturday night, and Pilate's world, 2000 years before in Yershayalim, during Passover. "The authorities of the Central Administrative District do not intend to take any measures to remove the sign that has appeared at Patriarch's Ponds," a City Hall spokesperson told RIA-Novosti on Wednesday. The other writer ends up in an insane asylum. The scene ends with one of the writers being beheaded in a freak tram accident. In that chapter, Woland materializes and engages two writers in a debate about the existence of Christ. Patriarch's Ponds, where the sign is located, is the setting of the novel's first chapter, titled "Never Talk With Strangers." The three figures are recognizable as Professor Woland, an incarnation of Satan, and his assistants the demon Koroviev and the oversized black cat Behemoth, who wreak havoc in 1930s Moscow. A street sign that shows three main characters from Mikhail Bulgakov's classic novel "The Master and Margarita" above the warning, "Don't Talk to Strangers," will not be taken down, City Hall said Wednesday.
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