The Master and Margarita

Artwork | Mikhail Bulgakov, “The Master and Margarita”

© Oksana Osipova

Then everyone saw that it was no ghost at all, but Ivan Nikolaevich Bezdomny—the most famous poet. He was barefoot, in a torn whitish shirt, to which was pinned with a safety pin a paper icon with the effaced image of an unknown saint, and in striped white underpants. In his hand, Ivan Nikolaevich carried a lighted wedding candle.

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