The Master and Margarita

The Naughty Apartment | Mikhail Bulgakov, “The Master and Margarita”

© Gennadiy Kalinovskiy

The guest was no longer alone in the bedroom but in company. In the second armchair sat that same type who had been seen in the anteroom. On the jeweler's pouf, in a sprawling pose, a third person was sprawled out—specifically, a gigantic black cat with a stack of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to skewer a pickled mushroom, in the other. Directly from the trumeau mirror came a small but extraordinarily broad-shouldered man, with a bowler hat on his head and a tusk sticking out of his mouth, disfiguring an already unprecedentedly vile face. And on top of that, he was fiery red-haired.

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