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Malgorzata
Malgorzata Małgorzata carries centuries of Polish Catholic heritage as well as the literary weight of Bulgakov's magnificent Margarita — a woman of fierce love and absolute courage. Characters with this name in Polish fiction are often depicted as quietly extraordinary: ordinary women whose inner lives are far richer and more turbulent than their surfaces suggest.
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Margarita
The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
The fearless, devoted lover of the Master whose compact with the Devil to save her beloved drives one of the greatest works of twentieth-century Russian literature.
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