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One of my favorite books of all time is _The Master and Margarita_ by Mikhail Bulgakov. ((plug: BUY IT!! IT IS SOOOOO INCREDIBLY WONDERFUL!! READ IT! READ IT!! end plug)) For the really really quick summary, it has to do with Satan/the Devil/aka Woland coming to Soviet Moscow with an entourage of demonic cohorts and causing havoc with the poor imaginationless people living there. Margarita is chosen to become Satan's hostess for his grand ball (the storyline loosely follows that of _Faust_ by Goethe).

But before the ball, Margarita (now a naked witch) greets Satan aka Woland in his chamber, where he sits getting a salve rubbed on his aching knee. He doesn't like bright light, so the only light in the chamber is "by candlelight", which is also the name of the chapter this drawing is from. It's pretty much what the book described... woland in a dirty patched nightshirt, the candalabras, and Margarita is naked...

Halfway through doing this pic I really couldn't think of what to put in the background. I mean, it doesn't describe everything, and since it's basically very very dark where Woland sits, I decided that just darkness would be enough.
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Lillehanna's avatar
Oh, interesting work....Спасибо )
Thanks from Great Russian Fan ))))))