The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Ivan tells the doctor in a disorganized and crazed fashion that Berlioz died at the hands of a foreign professor, who was with Pontius Pilate at the time of Jesus' death he is tranquilized when he attempts to jump from the window, and the doctor diagnoses him with schizophrenia and alcoholism. The police are called, and Ivan is taken to Professor Stravinsky's mental hospital by Ryukhin. In the process he loses his clothes and causes a scene at Griboyedov's, where writers and critics have been waiting for Berlioz to start a meeting. Ivan is baffled and disoriented he decides to get to the bottom of the evening's strange events, and embarks on a mad pursuit after Woland, Koroviev, and Behemoth the tomcat around the city.

Back in Moscow, Woland correctly predicts Berlioz's impending death by being beheaded by a streetcar. After being pressured by the high priest Joseph Kaifa, Pilate publicly condemns Yeshua to death. Yehudah had betrayed him in front of state authority. Pilate is questioning Yesha Ha-Nozri though he does not want to condemn Yeshua, he realizes he must after he asks Yeshua about his conversation with Yehudah of Kerioth.

He challenges their atheism with a story, which is the reader's first introduction to Pilate's world. The novel begins on a Wednesday night in Moscow at Patriarch's Ponds, where Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz and Ivan Nikolaevich Ponyrev have a mysterious encounter with Professor Woland, who is the devil.

The Master and Margarita takes place in two worlds: Moscow, between Wednesday night and the following Saturday night, and Pilate's world, 2000 years before in Yershayalim, during Passover.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov