The Master and Margarita
From the album “Book illustrations by Antonina Maksimuk”
Chapter 13. The Hero Appears
“‘There were thousands of people on Tverskaya, but I give you my word she saw only me, and she looked—not anxious exactly, but almost as if in pain. What struck me was not so much her beauty as the extraordinary, never‑before‑seen loneliness in her eyes!…’”