15 May

Born in 1848 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian artist.

Above: The Flying Carpet, 1880

Also, born in Also, born in 1891, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.

Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

—From Bulgakov’s novel, The Master and Margarita. The novel, the bulk of which Bulgakov wrote in the 1930s, was suppressed by censors and was not published until 1967, 26 years after his death.

Previously on May 15, Vasnetsov and Bulgakov.