The Master and Margarita is a Soviet novel that satirized bureaucratic absurdities of the Soviet Union and so remained unpublished for many years. The novel follows three intertwined partially-fantastical stories: the devil, Woland, and his cronies arriving in Moscow and wreaking havoc, the story of Pontius Pilate and the crucifixion of Yeshua, Christ, and the story of The Master, a writer, and his love, Margarita. The novel includes themes of religion, literature, insanity, the mystical and redemption.
"The Stationmaster" is a story in The Belkin Tales by the Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin. The story is a frame tale, told by A.G.N., a government official who stops at a post station, where he meets the stationmaster's beautiful daughter Dunya. A.G.N. returns to the station later and learns that after caring for a high-ranking officer who became gravely ill, Dunya was kidnapped by him. Years later, A.G.N. returns again, learning that the stationmaster has died and that Dunya came to pay her respects.
Master Rosalind is a YA novel that follows the adventures of young Rosalind, a girl being raised by her grandfather in Elizabethan England. Because she must run a number of errands for her grandfather, Rosalind often dresses as a boy to make going about these errands easier. While on one of these errands Rosalind is kidnapped and taken to London by a band of thieves but soon finds herself a part of Shakespeare's theater troupe.