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AbadonnaAbaddon is the Hebrew name for the Greek Apollyon, the angel of the bottomless
pit, the "destroyer." Bulgakov mentions this figure of the Apocalypse
in White Guard, the angel "whose name is in Hebrew Abaddon,
in Greek Apollyon, which means destroyer." (Revelation 9:11) In the Russian tradition the name is
usually associated with the story "Abadonna" by N. A. Polevoy
and the poem "Abbadona" by V. A. Zhukovskii (1815--a translation
of the epilog to a poem "Messiada" by Klopstock.)
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