The Master and Margarita
From the album “Watercolors by Gennady Kalinovskiy”
“Fire!” Margarita cried terribly. The small window in the basement slammed, the curtain was blown aside by the wind. In the sky, there was a cheerful and brief rumble. Azazello stuck his clawed hand into the stove, pulled out a smoking firebrand, and set the tablecloth on the table on fire. Then he set fire to a stack of old newspapers on the sofa, and after that, the manuscript and the curtain on the window. The Master, already intoxicated by the coming ride, threw some book from the shelf onto the table, fluffed its pages in the burning tablecloth, and the book flared up with a cheerful fire. “Burn, burn, former life!”