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…
