Umbrella stand

«…The whole big and semi-dark hall was cluttered with unusual objects and clothing. Thus, thrown over the back of a chair was a funereal cloak lined with fiery cloth, on the pier-glass table lay a long sword with a gleaming gold hilt. Three swords with silver hilts stood in the corner like mere umbrellas or canes. And on the stag-horns hung berets with eagle feathers». (Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita) This is how one of the characters of the novel saw the hall of «the odd flat». Now here is Mikhail Bulgakov’s umbrella stand from his Naschokinskiy lane apartment. Acquired in 2010 from L. Tarasevich.