MOSCOW, August 8 (RIA Novosti, Maria Gusarova) - A Moscow museum has successfully completed its search for a real-life incarnation of a mysterious character from one of Russia's most celebrated 20th-century literary works, the museum's director Svetlana Kostina said Monday.
Last winter, the Mikhail Bulgakov Museum posted a notice on the Internet for a photograph of a cat that most closely resembled Behemoth, a giant black tomcat endowed with dark powers from Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.
And now the museum has found a cat aged four and a half to become its mascot.
Bulgakov began The Master and Margarita (his final novel) in the winter of 1929-1930, and worked on it for over ten years. The complete uncensored version was not published for several decades.
A 10-part televised serialization of the novel directed by Vladimir Bortko will be premiered in Russia in September.
