


which were omitted from the Moskva version, have been restored throughout."įirst appeared in Russian in the magazine Moskva in late 1966 and early 1967īOOK ONE: Never Talk To Strangers - Pontius Pilate - The Seventh Proof - The Pursuit - The Affair at Griboyedov - Schizophrenia - The Haunted Apartment - The Duel Between The Professor and The Poet - Korovyov's Tricks - News From Yalta - The Two Ivans - Black magic revealed - Enter The Hero - Saved by the Cockcrow - Dream of Nikanor Ivanovich - The Execution - A day of anxiety - Unwelcome Visitors - BOOK TWO: Margarita - Azazello's Cream - Flight - By Candlelight - Satan's Rout - The Master is Released - How the Procurator tried to Save Judas of Kerioth - The Burial - The Last of Apartment No. "Published in the winter of 1966-67 in two issues of Moskva.

He wants to obtain publication of a novel about the police state of Pontius Pilate which the censor has banned A translation of a classic on a writer's pact with the devil in Stalinist Russia.
