Character: Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

As before, Chichikov travels around Russian soil and trades in dead souls. But he does not travel slowly in a wagon, but rushes in courier trains and sends telegrams everywhere. The same element operates at a new pace.

Freedom cannot be created and that if it were, then God would be responsible for universal evil. Evil appears when, when irrational freedom leads to a violation of the divine hierarchy of being and falls away from God because of the pride of the spirit that wants to put itself in the place of God.

Man is given freedom in the experience of bogorodichniy, and this freedom is guaranteed by kenosis and the incognito God. Atheism is only the experience of human life, the dialectical moment of the knowledge of God. <...> But there are two kinds of atheist - an atheist who suffers evil and an atheist. I'm not talking about a atheist giddy. Dostoevsky portrays the suffering of atheists. Nietzsche was suffering from an atheist. But there are atheists angry and self-righteous who say, "Thank God that there is no God". Suffering atheism is a form of religious experience, and even of piety. Atheism is evil usually means that the person failed the test for undue suffering of the world and man, he is worse than the first type of atheism, but it means above all education, against a false, derogatory ideas about God. Therefore, believers must not to look down at those atheists should look into the experience of others, in other people's tests. The more that believers faith is sometimes too easy they got.

In philosophical language the plot of "the Master and Margarita" stated N. A. Berdyaev. In his mind it is from the immeasurable power of evil in the world should the existence of God. After all, if evil so much, and yet there are rare Islands of light, it means there is something that prevents the evil Typhoon to reverse the reeds for good. There is some more powerful force which does not allow the ocean surf to erode the coastal Sands. The forces of good, which is so rare in this world, there is a secret strategic reserve - in Another world. Beskonechnosti power of evil is proof of God's existence...