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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Voronezh

  • In the book, Woland claims that he has sent Grunya (Styopa’s housemaid) to Voronezh.
  • It was a common practice is Soviet Russia to exile writers or poets who created works that the Soviet government found unfavorable. In 1934 Stalin exiled Osip Mandelstam, a Russian poet, to Voronezh because of his writings.
Posted by The Runaway Noses at 1:53 PM