Immediately a woman appears with a bag labeled "leeches." She is terrifying because she has "a man's mouth, crooked, wide to the ears, with a single fang protruding from it," and she speaks in a "male basso." Clearly she is Azazello, Hella, and Woland combined. Instead, he phones the department of leeches and orders some. Kuzmin is about to call Boure to ask him about the meaning of the sparrow, but soon it leaves a dropping in his ink well and flies away. He asks Ksenia Kikitishna to take away the kitten and saucer.Īll of a sudden, a sparrow appears on the desk, doing the fox trot. Then an orphaned black kitten appears in their place, with a saucer of milk. Later that night, Kuzmin discovers that the chervontsy Sokov paid him with has turned into labels from wine bottles. Though Kuzmin does not think he actually has cancer, he sends him to a neuropathologist, Professor Boure, to have tests done. Sokov runs to the office of Professor Kuzmin, one of the best liver doctors in town, to demand that his cancer be removed. He leaves, confused, and soon finds Behemoth to be inside his hat the cat slashes his head with its claws. And when he pulls out the fake money to prove his point, it appears to actually be real money. Sokov is obviously spooked by this prediction.
Woland informs him that he would have no time to use the money anyway, since he will die of liver cancer in nine months. The reason he has come is because the fake money that Woland distributed was used at the bar, and put the bar out a lot of money. Azazello gets Sokov a stool, but it immediately breaks, spilling red wine all over his pants. Hella greeted him at the door, completely naked, and when he asks to see the artist, she leads him into the bedroom where Woland is lying in his underwear and slippers. The narrator explains that the little old man is Andrey Fokich Sokov, the bartender and manager of the buffet at the Variety Theater, who had been curious about where Woland was actually staying. Poplavsky runs down to the bottom of the stairs and waits soon, the little old man runs past with a scratched head and wet trousers. While Poplavsky sits on a bench on the landing, he is passed by a little old man, also headed to apartment Number 50. He throws his valise down the stairs, beats him with a huge roast chicken, and throws both Poplavsky and the chicken down the stairs as well. The fact that he speaks totally discombobulates Poplavsky.īehemoth demands Poplavsky's passport, rejects it, and calls in Azazello, who tells Poplavsky to leave at once. Behemoth is also there, in the form of a cat, and claims that it was he who sent Poplavsky the telegram. There he is greeted by Koroviev, who feigns devastation at Berlioz's death. Another man enters and the two leave together, so Poplavsky heads up to apartment Number 50 himself. 302-b Sadovaya on Friday afternoon, but the man who greets him cannot answer him when he asks for the chairman.
He arrives at the office of the house management of No. Maxamilian Andreyevich hurries to Moscow not to attend his nephew's funeral, but because he is interested in inheriting the now vacant apartment on Sadovaya in Moscow. Maxamilian Andreyevich Poplavsky, Berlioz's uncle, is arriving in Moscow from Kiev after receiving a confusing telegram from Berlioz, stating that he had just been run over.
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