If you have read Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita," then you probably remember the Torgsin mirror store on the Smolensk market in Moscow. In exchange for jewelry and currency, he sold Soviet citizens and foreigners "pink salmon," Mitkali and chiffons, and other delicacies and elite consumer goods. But did you know that in 1931-1935. one and a half thousand torgsins worked throughout the country?