Туры по Крыму и Севастополю.

CHEKHOV HOUSE

• CHEKHOV HOUSE-MUSEUM IN YALTA.

The writer’s house in Yalta where he spent his last years of life (1899-1904) attracts people like a magnet. It got the name of the “White Cottage” among the residents. In this house Chekhov wrote the narrative “In the Gully”, the plays “The Three Sisters” and “The Cherry Orchard”, the short stories “The Lady with the Dog”, “At Christmas”, “The Bride” and others. The outstanding figures of Russian culture: the writers Gorky, Bunin, Kuprin, composers Rakhmaninov, Spendiarov, painters Levitan, Vasnetsov visited Chekhov as guests here. Great Shalyapin sang to the accompaniment of Chekhov’s piano. The visitors to the museum see a nice garden planted by the writer himself. In one of the garden’s corners stands a bench on which Chekhov used to sit and talk with Maxim Gorky. In the halls on display are pictures, documents, the writer’s personal belongings, playbills and so on.