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Anna Muzalevskaya

Creation period

second half of the 19th century

Dimensions

86x63 cm

Technique

canvas, oil

Collection

The Ivan Goncharov Museum

Exhibition

Relics of the Ivan Goncharov Museum

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Anna Muzalevskaya

Anna Goncharova, Ivan Goncharov’s younger sister, was born in Simbirsk in 1818. At the age of 18, she got married to a well-known town doctor Pyotr Muzalevsky, who was 17 years older.

Alexander Goncharov, the son of Muzalevskaya’s elder brother Nikolay, recalled that Pyotr Muzalevsky was a sincere and noble person who treated everyone around him with respect and loved his wife immensely. Anna Muzalevskaya’s nephew wrote,

…She was a small-town lady of the days of yore, who was content with everything she had and considered her husband a good man, believing that she was no worse than the ladies of the local aristocracy.

Ivan Goncharov carried on a yearslong correspondence with his sister. When he moved to Saint Petersburg, it became the only means of learning about various events passing in his relatives’ lives. Goncharov wrote to his sister about his life and work, gave some life advice, and sometimes even sent excerpts of his literary works.

In the winter of 1855, the writer was on his way home from a round-the-world trip on board the Pallada frigate and spent some time in Simbirsk, his hometown. He stayed with the Muzalevsky family, and they were one of the first people to see draft chapters for his book of travel stories.

In 1862, Ivan Goncharov came to Simbirsk again to work on his novel “The Precipice”, which was conceived as early as 1849. By that time, his mother had already died, and the family house was rented out. So, the writer again stayed with Pyotr and Anna Muzalevsky. In his letter to Professor Alexander Nikitenko at the Saint Petersburg University, he described that trip as follows,

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…It is my second month here already… as I am living on the banks of the Volga. I am surrounded by my own people, all gathered in a small house, that is in constant motion like a beehive. I am at perfect ease here, my mind is carefree, peaceful, quiet — and bored.

In 1864, the Muzalevskys left Simbirsk for Moscow, where their daughter had already lived for some time. In 1877, Pyotr Muzalevsky passed away. The widow spent her last years at the house of her daughter Yevdokia Levenshtein.

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Anna Muzalevskaya

Creation period

second half of the 19th century

Dimensions

86x63 cm

Technique

canvas, oil

Collection

The Ivan Goncharov Museum

Exhibition

Relics of the Ivan Goncharov Museum

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