[1] According to Bulgakov, Azazello "turned out to be short of stature, a fiery redhead with a fang, in a starched shirt, a good-quality striped suit, patent leather shoes, and with a bowler hat on his head.

The surprising thing was that from the pocket where men usually carry a handkerchief or a fountain pen, this gentleman had a gnawed chicken bone sacking out."

Azazyel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors, and the workmanship of bracelets and ornaments, the use of paint, the beautifying of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and all sorts of dyes, so that the world became altered.

He throws Stepan Likhodeyev from Moscow to Yalta, pushes Poplavsky out of his sinister apartment, and shoots Count Meigel to death.

In earlier versions of the novel Azazello kills Meigel with a knife, which is more appropriate for him as the inventor of all the blade weapons in the world.