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,

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.