Vyacheslav Zhelvakovacademy-andriaka.ruVyacheslav Zhelvakov, a graphic artist, was born in Yaransk in 1956. In 1971, he enrolled in the Mari Art College (in Yoshkar-Ola); in 1976, he became a student at the Moscow Surikov Art Institute; and in 1983, he studied at the Creative Workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts. In 2001, Zhelvakov became a professor and dean of the sculpture faculty at the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
For a long time, I was only able to find a small number of his Bulgakov works online, despite the fact that an entire book is illustrated with them. But now, a complete collection is finally available for your attention. The artist clearly used Soviet film actors as prototypes for his visual images—an older person could name all of them, but I recognize only a few.
Berlioz is clearly modeled on Anatoly Ravikovich (who also played Khobotov from the movie The Pokrovsky Gates)
Man is not just mortal, but unexpectedly mortal
But I can't recognize who Ivan Homeless was based on
The pirate from the Griboyedov restaurant, Archibald Archibaldovich
Doctor Stravinsky (the face seems familiar, but again, I can't recall the actor)
Styopa Likhodeyev
Ivan Homeless tells Doctor Stravinsky about the suspicious foreigner
Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy (actor Leonid Kuravlyov) looks at the police officers who burst in on him
Rimsky and Varenukha at the Variety Theatre are racking their brains over telegrams from Yalta
Ivan in the clinic re-evaluates what has happened
Koroviev makes a call to the proper authorities to report on the bribe-takers
The Master in the clinic looks at the Moon
Rimsky (actor Sergey Filippov)
And Varenukha (actor Viktor Pavlov, who, incidentally, appeared in one of the film adaptations—though in the role of Behemoth the cat)
Nikanor Ivanovich's dream
The Variety Theatre's bookkeeper and the empty suit
The uncle from Kyiv, Poplavsky (Borislav Brondukov), and Azazello (he looks like Aleksandr Filippenko)
The Variety Theatre's barman (Zinovy Gerdt)
Azazello and Margarita in the Alexander Garden (Margarita is modeled not on a Soviet actress, but on a French one—Isabelle Adjani, who starred in a Bulgakov photo project by Jean-Daniel Lorieux)
Berlioz's funeral
The transformed Margarita in the mirror
Natasha on the boar
Margarita flies to the ball
Behemoth's chess game
A stream of people on the stairs at the ball
Abadonna
Annushka looks out from the neighboring apartment
Behemoth on the chandelier in a shootout with police officers
Koroviev and Behemoth in the Torgsin store
And they are eating at the Griboyedov House restaurant (Archibald Archibaldovich does not want to quarrel with them)
Woland in a close-up
Woland in a wide shot
Matthew Levi (actor Lev Durov)
Azazello on a black horse (scaring the Master's neighbor)
The last flight
Pontius Pilate on a mountain plateau (actor Mikhail Ulyanov)
