Maria Romanovaillustrators.ruQuite interesting illustrations – and what’s even more surprising is that I couldn’t really find any information about their author. If you know anything about this artist, please feel free to write to me.
Patriarch’s Ponds: the poet and the editor walk along the alley by Bronnaya Street.
Behemoth on a tram (by the way, note the route letter: “A” – in Moscow this tram is nicknamed “Annushka”).
Hella comes to visit Rimsky.
Margarita. Clearly drawn from Elena Sergeyevna Bulgakova, traditionally regarded as the main prototype for Margarita.
The Master (logically you’d expect him to resemble Bulgakov, but I don’t see the likeness).
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy hides the dollars (well, not yet “dollars”) in the ventilation duct.
Natasha on the boar (really, what illustrator of The Master and Margarita doesn’t include Natasha on the boar?).
A car with a rook at the wheel.
Living chess.
Owl (there was an owl, of course; it sat on the mantelpiece).
Annushka. Peering suspiciously through the crack—what are those foreigners from No. 50 doing out at night?
Demons gaze sadly at the flames and give themselves over to philosophical reflections on life.
And now only one of them remains by the fireplace. He looks rather unfriendly. Then again, who could be friendly with the Chekists around…
Woland’s gang leaves Building 302-bis. The building, by the way, is drawn correctly—the very one Bulgakov lived in and described in the novel. And if I’ve got my bearings right, the gang is flying out of apartment No. 34, not 50; if Maria did that deliberately, big kudos for knowing the source material. And if it was by chance, kudos anyway for a beautiful drawing.
Pilate and Banga (by the way, if you didn’t know: the stress in the dog’s name falls on the last syllable—ban-GA).
