Elena Eskova was born in 1961 in the city of Kursk. In 1984 she graduated from the Art and Graphics Faculty of the State Pedagogical Institute in Kursk. After that she worked at a publishing complex that was also called Kursk.
Here are several of her illustrations for the novel The Master and Margarita—in my view, quite interesting. Apparently the drawings were scanned from a book—or perhaps from an album.
Cover
This is probably the title page
“Never talk to strangers”
Ivanushka arrives at MASSOLIT carrying a candle and an icon
A hungover Stepa Likhodeev finds Woland’s gang in his apartment
Pontius Pilate
Here I confess I’m at a loss. Which scene is this?
Behemoth the cat, in human guise, with a Primus stove under his arm
The execution of Yeshua
Pilate and Banga
Ivan and the Master in Stravinsky’s clinic
An empty suit
Judas and Niza (for some reason with a halo)
Remember Yeshua and Pilate’s discussion about a life hanging by a thread—and who hung it there?
The killing of Judas. Niza—like some jine of hero—disappears into the sunset
Ladies’ dress shop at the black‑magic séance
The Master greets Margarita with yellow flowers
Azazello and Margarita in Alexander Garden
After the ball, by candlelight
The killing of Baron Meigel
Margarita’s flight: invisible and free!
Petitioners at Satan’s ball
Margarita and Behemoth. Or maybe it’s Hella after all?
A commotion at Torgsin shop
Attempt to arrest the whole gang
Levi and Woland on a rooftop as the shadow of a sword falls across it
The last flight
Behemoth and the ladies
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