Professor W. (unknown surname)

Tall, well‑dressed foreigner, claims to be a historian and specialist in black magic, offers consultation and predicts Berlioz's death. Claims personal presence at Pilate's balcony and garden, displays one green insane eye and one black dead eye, asserts he arrived moments ago and seeks to prove the devil exists Identified by Ivan as the foreign consultant who killed Berlioz; his name is only known to start with ‘W’. Foreign professor of black magic who arrives in Stypha's apartment, presents a contract, food, and a supernatural retinue. Revealed his past as a museum historian who won 100,000 roubles, retired to a basement near Arbat, wrote a novel about Pontius Pilate, suffered hostile newspaper attacks, burned his manuscript, and lives with a secret lover; now a patient in the clinic