The Master and Margarita (short story)

The Master and Margarita was a novella and the sixth story published in I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord. It was written by Matthew Sweet and featured as played by Sacha Dhawan.
== Summary ==
Marooned by the Thirteenth Doctor on Earth for 77 years, the Spy Master becomes scientific advisor to the Soviet equivalent of UNIT – with a deadly agenda of his own. But his plans take a strange twist with the coming of the unearthly Comrade Cap...
== Plot ==
to be added
== Characters ==
* Spy Master
* K'vo
* Lev Surikov
* Captain Tsybukin
* Pletrov
* Bolesaw Bobkov
* Eleonora Kalashnik
* Magda
* Pelageya Vlasova
* Margarita
* Comrade Cap
* Yuri Gerasimov
* Leonid Illyich Brezhnev
* Kosygin
* Ekaterina Yegorov
* Catherine the Great
== Worldbuilding ==
* "Gospodinov" suggests that the Eocenes created the abyss in the Garden.
* Joseph Stalin banned hypnosis in the Soviet Union.
* "Gospodinov" works for Yedinitza as a scientific advisor.
== Notes ==
* The title of the story is a reference to the novel of the same name by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.
== Continuity ==
* The Master keeps newspapers detailing a mysterious mist in London, (TV: The Web of Fear) Reginald Styles, (TV: Day of the Daleks) a computer in the Post Office Tower, (TV: The War Machines) Senator Alcott at the first World Peace Conference, (TV: The Mind of Evil) and an advertisement for plastic Daffodils. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
* The Master is currently in a form of exile because of a woman. He claims he will have "a plane to catch" in the next fifty years. (TV: Spyfall)
* The Master knows that Jo Grant got married to a professor. (TV: The Green Death)
* The Master has seen Jo banish demons with her courage. (TV: The Dæmons)
* Comrade Cap paraphrases the Master's speech at the Pharos Project. (TV: Logopolis)
* The Daleks are known for invading Bedfordshire. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
* The Master recalls his murders of George McDermott and Goodge. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
* The RAF bombing a manor house in Surrey is mentioned. This may be a reference to Chase Mansion. (TV: The Seeds of Doom)
Category:I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord short stories
Category:Spy Master short stories
Category:Silurian and Sea Devil short stories
Category:Stories set in Russia
Category:Stories set in the 1970s