Literature and Culture

The Master and Margarita Characters


  • After reading The Master and Margarita, please review the main characters of the novel and see if you remember which role each of them plays in the development of the themes or which episode(s) they appear in. You can use the following guide as your point of reference: The Master and Margarita characters

  • Now let's see how well you remember Bulgakov's characters. In the following activity, you will see the flash cards with the brief descriptions of some of the characters from The Master and Margarita. See if you can recall the names of these characters.

  • The English spelling of the names may differ in different translations. In this activity, the names appear as follows:

Yeshua Ha-Notsri, The Master, Woland, Natasha, Pontius Pilate, Korovyev, Behemoth, Hella, Matthew Levi, Azazello, Margarita, Berlioz, Likhodeyev, Judas, Baron Maigel, Frieda