The Master and Margarita
From the album “llustrations by Nikolay Korolev”
The “Naughty Apartment” Through the Eyes of the Variety Theater Bartender
“Upon entering the place he had been invited to, the bartender even forgot his purpose, so struck was he by the room's decor. Through the colored glass of the large windows (the fantasy of the jeweler who had disappeared without a trace) poured an unusual, church-like light. In the ancient, enormous fireplace, firewood blazed despite the hot spring day. Before the fireplace, on a tiger skin, a huge black cat sat, blinking contentedly at the fire. By the fireplace, a small red-haired man with a knife at his belt was roasting pieces of meat on a long steel sword, and the juice dripped into the fire.”