Булгаков М.А. Мастер и Маргарита

In the product - two plot lines, each of which develops independently . The action takes place first in Moscow for a few days in May ( spring full moon day ) in the 30- ies. XX century , a second action also occurs in May, but in Yershalaim ( Jerusalem ), almost two thousand years ago - at the beginning of a new era. The novel is constructed in such a way that the head of the storyline interspersed chapters that make up the second storyline , and these chapters are false then the heads of the masters of the novel , the eyewitness account of the events of Woland .

One hot day in May in Moscow Voland appears someone posing as a specialist in black magic , but actually being Satan. He is accompanied by a strange entourage : cute witch vampire Gella , cheeky type Koroviev , also known as Viola , a dark and sinister Azazello jolly fat man and Behemoth, which for the most part before the reader in the guise of a black cat epic proportions .

The first meeting with Woland at Patriarch's Ponds thick art magazine editor Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz and poet Ivan Homeless , who wrote the anti-religious poem about Jesus Christ. Voland interfere with the conversation , saying that Christ existed in reality. As evidence that there is something eludes man Woland predicts that Berlioz 's head cut off Russian girl Komsomol . In the eyes of stunned Ivan Berlioz immediately falls under the tram, which is run by a girl - member of the Komsomol , and he cuts off his head. Ivan tries unsuccessfully to pursue Voland , and then , appearing in Massolit (Moscow Literary Association ) , so confusing sets out the sequence of events that transported him to the suburban psychiatric clinic of Professor Stravinsky , where he meets the protagonist of the novel - the master.

Voland , appearing in apartment number 50 302- bis home on Garden street , which the late Berlioz worked with the director of the Variety Theatre , Stepan Likhodeev , and finding the latest in a state of serious hangovers , makes it signed by him , Likhodeev , the contract for the performance of Woland in the theater, and then pack off him away from the apartment , and Stepan inexplicably finds himself in Yalta.