Andrey Karapetyanarts.centerAndrey Karapetyan (b. 1950) is one of the few artists in my collection with no formal art training. Educated and employed as a mechanical engineer, he nonetheless earned wide recognition for his illustrations—to Dostoevsky, Dante, Bulgakov, and to modern fantasists such as Vladimir Rybakov, Mikhail Uspensky, and Andrei Lazarchuk. Yes, he is the very same Andrey Karapetyan who has illustrated virtually the entire Strugatsky brothers oeuvre.
His cycle for The Master and Margarita was never released in book form, yet the drawings circulate freely online; here are the pieces held in my collection.
Title page
Part of that power which forever wills evil and forever works the good
Before Berlioz a checkered citizen wove himself out of thin air
Never talk to strangers
A dispute over old man Kant
Pontius Pilate
Yeshua
Caiaphas
Ivan’s chase after Woland
It happened at Griboedov’s
The gang in Likhodeev’s apartment
The duel between the professor and the poet.
The execution
Niza
Black magic and its exposure
The freshly bitten Varenukha, shielding himself with a newspaper, recounts his adventures to Rimsky
A visit from Berlioz’s Kiev uncle
Behemoth reads the uncle’s passport
Koroviev's triks
A troubled day
The meeting
Azazello’s cream
The flight
The wrecking of Latunsky’s apartment
By candlelight. Royal blood
Abaddon
The great ball at Satan’s. The queen of the ball
Queen Margot
The great ball at Satan’s. Berlioz’s choice
The extraction of the Master. Manuscripts don’t burn
Annushka
Behemoth on the mantelpiece
The Master’s farewell to Ivanushka
On Sparrow Hills
A flight in Woland’s retinue
The eternal refuge. Free! Free!
The eternal refuge. The house with Venetian windows
Epilogue
