Chekhov's dacha description and photo - Crimea: Gurzuf (Topic)

Chekhov's dacha description and photo - Crimea: Gurzuf. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov bought this dacha at the beginning of the 20th century - in 1900. The noisy, densely populated Yalta annoyed Chekhov, he was looking for a quiet place to rest. Therefore, I bought this house in Gurzuf.

According to Chekhov's will (he made it on 08/03/1901), the dacha in Gurzuf was inherited by O.L. Knipper, his wife. Every summer she came and lived at this dacha. During the Civil War, this house was visited by the actors of the Katchalov group, they were on tour in the southern regions of Russia. I. Kozlovsky, N. Dorliak and S. Richter, O. Efremov stayed here in later years. Famous Pushkin scholars I. Medvedeva and B. Tomashevsky lived in the neighborhood of OL Knipper's dacha, and L. Knipper, a famous composer who wrote the song "Polyushko-Pole", settled nearby. In 1953, O.L. Knipper was at her dacha for the last time. And after the death of OL Knipper, the dacha passed to the Korovin House of Creativity.

Chekhov's dacha in 1987 became a branch of the writer's museum in Yalta. Every year there are exhibitions dedicated to Chekhov and exhibitions of artwork. They open traditionally in April and are shown until November.

Since 1996, one room of the museum has been dedicated to the memorial exposition of O. L. Knipper and A. P. Chekhov, the other one presents literary materials telling about the writing process the play "Three Sisters". Museum visitors can see copies of individual pages of the manuscript, photographs of people who became prototypes of characters, the very first editions of The Three Sisters.

The most interesting materials are about the premiere of the play in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theater. as well as photographs of theatrical scenes and performers. The museum also displays props, artists' business cards. Documents have been preserved that tell about the staging of the play "Three Sisters" in 1940. Directed by V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, this version of the play lasted more than half a century on the stage.

The exposition, called "Chekhov's Encirclement", opened in 1999 in the third room of the museum. The writer's family members, friends, relatives are the heroes of the photographs, drawings and documents exhibited here. You can see here reproductions of portraits of Chekhov, created by eminent painters: a portrait of Chekhov in his youth, painted by Nikolai, his brother (1884); portrait of a young writer by I. Levitan; a portrait of I. Braz, painted for the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery (1898); portrait by V. Serov (1902).

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