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And it opens with the funeral of the Turbins' mother: 'For the reigning head of the family, their adored mother, was no longer with them.'
I am just re-reading The Master and Margarita , and I now underst and very clearly the real-life origin of the flood caused by Margarita in Latunsky's apartment.