The Master and Margarita
From the album “llustrations by Nikolay Korolev”
The Chekists Arrest Behemoth
“I challenge you to a duel!" the cat howled, flying over their heads on a swinging chandelier, and then a Browning pistol was in his paws again, and he had nestled the primus stove between the chandelier's branches. The cat took aim and, swinging like a pendulum over the heads of the newcomers, opened fire on them.”