Anna Fyodorovna Goryacheva was a neighbor of Mikhail Bulgakov and his first wife Tatiana Lappa in communal apartment No. 50 at 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya. It was she who later became the prototype of the famous Anna the Plague in the novel “The Master and Margarita”.

Not much is known about Anna Goryacheva: in 1924, when Bulgakov lived in Bolshaya Sadovaya, she was 53 years old. She was dependent on her husband and was registered in her apartment with her 20-year-old son Mikhail. Anna was known for her noisiness and often annoyed the writer.

Later, he added,

Tatiana Lappa recalled in an interview,

In Bulgakov’s feuilletons of the first half of the 1920s, Annushka had a special place. For example, in the story “No. 13. — The Elpit Workers’ Commune Building” heroine Annushka Pylyaeva, the “scourge of the house”, as the author calls her, causes a devastating fire, and the building burns down.

Mikhail Bulgakov left apartment No. 50 in November 1924. Anna stayed in the famous communal building a little longer — the following year, together with her son, she moved to apartment No. 33 of the same building at 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya.