The Master and Margarita
From the album “Watercolors by Gennady Kalinovskiy”
The darkness that had come from the Mediterranean Sea covered the city hated by the procurator. The hanging bridges connecting the temple with the terrible Tower of Antonia disappeared, an abyss descended from the sky and flooded the winged gods over the hippodrome, the Hasmonean Palace with its embrasures, the bazaars, the caravanserais, the alleys, the ponds... Yershalaim—the great city—was gone, as if it had never existed. All was devoured by the darkness, which terrified everything living in Yershalaim and its surroundings.