Woland then narrates the first part of the Pilate story. Even more mysteriously, the strange professor casually informs Berlioz that he will be decapitated that day. This foreigner insists that Jesus did exist, and that he was there when Pontius Pilate approved his crucifixion. Berlioz explains why Jesus never existed but is interrupted by the arrival of a “strange professor,” who the reader later learns is Woland (Satan). Berlioz, who is the chairman of the writers’ union Massolit, criticizes Ivan for making Jesus seem too real in his writing.
The book opens with the first of these, as two writers, Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz and Ivan “Homeless” Ponyrev, discuss a poem written by the latter. The Master and Margarita has two main settings: 1930s Moscow and Yershalaim (Jerusalem) around the time of Yeshua’s (the Aramaic name for Jesus) execution.
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