{"id":699,"date":"2008-10-26T22:11:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T12:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=699"},"modified":"2008-10-26T22:11:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T12:11:57","slug":"chekhovs-house-yalta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/ukraine-river-cruise\/chekhovs-house-yalta","title":{"rendered":"Chekhov&#039;s House &#8211; Yalta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Russians have likened Anton Chekhov to the Shakespeare of Russia.\u00a0 Anton Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860 in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia.\u00a0 He started writing as a young student and was very talented in short stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 124px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chekhovs House - front entrance\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/43254-2\/AJP_4791.jpg?resize=114%2C150\" alt=\"Chekhovs House - front entrance\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chekhov&#39;s House - front entrance<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chekhov qualified in medicine at Moscow State University and intended practicing medicine. Whilst studying he was already successfully writing humorous magazine stories and sketches.\u00a0 When he realised that he had tuberculosis, he began to rely more and more on his writing to provide him with an income.\u00a0 Being a doctor, he chose not to think about his illness or to seek treatment, as a result of which he died at the young age of 44 years.<\/p>\n<p>Chekhov is closely associated with the Crimea as he spent his last years in Yalta. He built a house in the Yalta suburb of Autka and his famous short story &#8220;The Lady with the Little Dog&#8221; was set in Yalta.\u00a0 He also had a dacha (country cottage) at Gursuf, a few kilometres down the coast.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chekhovs House - Living room\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/43276-2\/AJP_4799.jpg?resize=150%2C101\" alt=\"Chekhovs House - Living room\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chekhov&#39;s House - Living room<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Ukraine\/Yalta\/Chekhov-House\/\" target=\"_self\">Chekhov&#8217;s House <\/a>gives great insight into this talented author. Known as the White Dacha, his Yalta home was frequently visited by other writers of his time including Ivan Bunin, Maksim Gorky and Alexander Kuprin.\u00a0 In the house are lots of pictures, furniture and memorabilia to remind of his times there.\u00a0 There is also the piano which his friend and composer Rachmaninov played when he visited.\u00a0 Chekhov wrote &#8220;Three Sisters&#8221; and &#8220;The Cherry Orchard&#8221; here and whenever necessary, he would escape to the peace and quiet of his smaller dacha at Gursuf.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gorkys Bench, Yalta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/43238-2\/DSC_1568.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"Gorkys Bench, Yalta\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gorky&#39;s Bench, Yalta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When he died in Germany in 1904, the house passed to his sister Masha.\u00a0 She kept the house as closely as possible to its original form as when Chekhov had lived there. Walking through the house, you get a sense of warmth about the place.\u00a0 The clock in the living room is set at 1:00 p.m. which is when the family had their lunch together.\u00a0 The beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Ukraine\/Yalta\/Chekhov-House\/AJP_4780.jpg.html\" target=\"_self\">garden <\/a>was laid out by Chekhov himself.\u00a0 He planted some 159 plant species, however today only 40 species remain.\u00a0 The green bench is named &#8220;Gorky&#8217;s bench&#8221;.\u00a0 Chekhov supposedly said to Gorky that if every person would do everything possible on this earth, our planet would be beautiful.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chekhovs House - Garden\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/43300-2\/AJP_4816.jpg?resize=150%2C101\" alt=\"Chekhovs House - Garden\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chekhov&#39;s House - Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chekhov was a compassionate man and in spite of his own poor health, he set up a fund to build a health centre for poor people suffering from tuberculosis, now known as the Chekhov Sanatorium. Together with his friend Maxim Gorky he also created another fund to open a town library, which is now Yalta&#8217;s Chekhov Library, the biggest in the Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians have likened Anton Chekhov to the Shakespeare of Russia.\u00a0 Anton Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860 in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia.\u00a0 He started writing as a young student and was very talented in short stories.\u00a0 Chekhov qualified in medicine at Moscow State University and intended [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,70,75],"tags":[423,424,1855],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-to-see-do-yalta","category-ukraine-river-cruise","category-yalta-things-to-see-do","tag-chekhov-russian-writer","tag-chekhovs-house-yalta","tag-the-cherry-orchard-chekhov"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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