Annushka

This is a photo of one of Bulgakov’s neighbors from the noisy communal apartment, and at the same time – of one of his regular characters – brawler and gossip Annushka-the-Plague from «The Master and Margarita» and of «№ 13 Elpit-Rabkommuny». Annushka (Anna) Goryacheva was an unemployed woman, dependant of her husband, though nobody ever saw him. Tatyana Lappa, Bulgakov’s first wife, recalled how Annushka beat her sons unmercifully and quarreled with Bulgakov. The photo was brought to the museum by Annushka’s great-grandson, a lawyer who now lives in Switzerland.