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# At the Home of the Writer Anastasia Tsvetaeva, November 1987
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/doma-u-pisatelnitsy-anastasii-tsvetaevoi-v-noiabre-1987-goda/
- Published: 2026-08-31T16:55:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:18.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Books, Moscow, People

*Photo by Yury Rybchinsky*

Anastasia, the younger sister of Marina Tsvetaeva, also travelled a far from easy road. Her first husband, the chemical engineer Mauritius Mints, died of peritonitis only two years after the wedding, in the Crimea, at the house of Maximilian Voloshin, where they had gone after the Revolution. Their little son died too, before he had reached his first birthday. In 1933 Anastasia was arrested for her acquaintance with the mystic poet Boris Zubakin, who was thought to be a Freemason. After 64 days in custody she was got out through the efforts of Peshkova, Gorky and Pasternak.

In 1937, however, she was arrested again, this time together with her son Andrey, on a charge of counter-revolutionary activity. At the arrest her manuscripts, tales and novellas, were confiscated and destroyed. An NKVD troika gave her ten years. She was sent first to BAMlag, then to Amurlag, where she worked as a cleaner, at a brickworks, and as a draughtswoman in a design office. During her camp years Tsvetaeva drew some 900 portraits of women prisoners.

In 1947 she was at last released. But, alas, only for a very short time. In 1949 came a new arrest and exile to the settlement of Pikhtovka in the Novosibirsk region. She was let out only in 1954, but permission to leave came two years later still. From 1957 to 1959 Anastasia Ivanovna lived in Pavlodar with her son.

Fame came to her with her first book, “Memoirs”.

In 1961 Anastasia Tsvetaeva returned to Moscow and devoted herself to restoring her sister’s archives and preserving her legacy, including securing the opening of the House-Museum.

It is said that for many years Anastasia Tsvetaeva remained a vegetarian, walked a great deal, said of herself “I take myself by the hair and drag myself out of ‘I don’t want to’”, and worked to the very end.

From 1979 her Moscow address was a one-room flat at 8 Bolshaya Spasskaya Street, where a memorial plaque by the second entrance now recalls the fact.

Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva died on 5 September 1993, aged 98, and is buried in the Vagankovo Cemetery beside her father and her son.

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