Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz

Editor of a literary journal, meets the poet at Patriarch’s Ponds and experiences a strange apparition. Berlioz is killed by a tram; his severed head is found on the street His severed body is described in the morgue and his death prompts grief among the writers at Griboedov's. Mentioned as dead, run over by a tram at Patriarch’s Ponds.