Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Moscow, 1894-1993) spent her early childhood years between reading and music classes. In 1902 her mother fell ill, so Anastasía and her sister Marina lived abroad for several years, following her mother through the cities where she received treatment. They returned to Russia in 1906. Soon after, her mother died. She studied in Russian high schools, until in 1911 she met her first husband, Borís Trujachov. Together with Marina she participates in the literary and cultural life of Moscow. In 1912, her first child, Andriusha, was born, but shortly after she separated from Borís. In 1914 she wrote her first book, Royal Reflections. In 1916, Smoke, smoke, smoke. After two years of relationship with the engineer Mavriki Mints, she gave birth to her second child, Alexéi. In 1917 she suffers, one after another, the losses of Alexei and Mavriki.

Isolated from the rest of her family in a Crimea devastated by the Civil War, in 1921 she returns to Moscow with her son Andrei. In 1933 she is arrested for the first time, although she was soon released thanks to Gorky's intercession. She did not suffer the same fate in 1937, when her son was also arrested. Both will be sentenced to gulag jobs. She will only be able to return to Moscow in 1959, after her rehabilitation. At the end of the 80s, the idea of ​​creating a museum dedicated to the Tsvetaeva sisters began to be hatched.