Alexander and Valeriy Traugotstraugot.ruBrothers Alexander and Valery Traugot are well‑known painters, sculptors, and book illustrators both in Russia and abroad. Their first and chief teacher was their father, Georgy Nikolaevich Traugot; their early work appeared under the joint byline “G.A.V. Traugot,” formed from the initials of all three artists. After their father’s death in 1982, the brothers kept the leading “G.” as a tribute.
The Traugots have illustrated roughly four hundred books—from Andersen and Grimm to Pushkin and Nabokov—and they did not overlook The Master and Margarita.
Heterochromatic‑eyed Woland—he rather resembles a certain Soviet writer, don’t you think?
A chat with the writers at Patriarch’s Ponds
The wandering philosopher Yeshua Ha‑Nozri
The procurator of Judea and the chief of the secret guard
Legionary Mark Ratslyer
Yeshua on the cross
Ivanushka, chasing the “consultant,” bursts into a naked woman’s bathroom
The Griboyedov restaurant—musicians playing jazz
Pirate Archibald Archibaldovich gives the doorman a dressing‑down
Ivan with Dr. Stravinsky
Stepa Likhodeev sees a cat in the mirror
And then the whole gang
Behemoth in the jeweller’s chair with a shot of vodka
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy discovers, in the dead Berlioz’s flat, an unknown translator of an unknown foreigner
Black magic at the Variety Theater
Behemoth tears off the emcee’s head
Rimsky watches naked ladies from the window—unclean forces will reach him soon enough
Rimsky’s wife in despair over her missing husband
The militia sorting out the mess, with the famed police dog Tusbuben
Koroviev and Behemoth ready to receive visitors after the Variety show
The buffet attendant trudges up to the unlucky apartment, trailed by Poplavsky, who has already been there
The buffet attendant gets a warm welcome
At last—the Master and Margarita
She was carrying yellow flowers
The Master writes his novel about Pilate
The novel dies in the stove
Margarita
Azazello: “A downright brigand’s mug.”
Margarita nude
Woland playing chess with the cat
The queen of the ball
The Master’s return
Chekists arrest Behemoth
Koroviev and Behemoth drop in at Torgsin
Moonlit road
“A gang of hypnotists”
Epilogue: the cat’s owner arrives to bail him out
