Ryuhin and... Pontius Pilate? (on a certain organization principle of secondary characters in M. A. Bulgakov's novel «Master and Margarita»)

The article deals with the analysis of the aspect of character -to-character, major-to-minor, relations in B. It also examines the image-and-theme paradigm «Ryuhin-Master-Bezdomnyi-Pilate-Ieshua» which is extremely important for proper understanding of the novel. Meaningful reference between the main and the secondary characters of the novel, as the article shows, brings the reader to a conclusion that any approximation to the author's idea of the complex novel structure is possible only while taking all its elements into consideration.