Chekhov Museum Yalta
The Chekhov Museum Yalta , also called The White Datsche ( Russian Дом-музей А. П. Чехова в Ялте , Dom-musei AP Chekhova w Jalte ), is located at 112 Kirov Street in Yalta .
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov was in Yalta for the first time in July 1888 on the way to Feodosia . In the summer of 1889 he spent three weeks in town working on his Boring Story . In 1894 the writer stayed at the Yalta Hotel Russia . After the success of his play The Seagull , Chekhov had his White Datsche built in 1898/1899 by the Yalta city architect Lev Schapowalow and moved in on September 9, 1899 with his sister Maria (1863-1957) and his mother. The writer lived there until May 1, 1904. In those four and a half Yalta years, Chekhov created the two plays Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard as well as the stories Seelchen , In der Schlucht , The Lady with the Dog and The Bishop . He married Olga Knipper in 1901 . The actress, engaged at the Moscow Art Theater , spent the summers in the White Dacha.
The passionate gardener Anton Chekhov planted dozens of young trees on his property - mulberries , cherries, almond trees , cypresses , lemon trees , acacias and birches. His dogs had exercise in the area. Tame cranes were added.
Maria Pavlovna Chekhova
Anton Chekhov, who left Yalta in the spring of 1904, bequeathed the property to his only sister Maria in a letter dated August 3. While her brother was still alive, Maria showed the house to interested tourists. She couldn't stand any changes to the interior. Until the troubled year 1917 , Maria secured the winters through her brother's estate. The mother, who died on January 3, 1919, was buried in Yalta. Maria became the first director of the Chekhov Museum in Yalta and in 1921 undertook a dangerous trip to Moscow to secure her brother's archives. During the train journey that lasted several weeks, for example, she had to explain to the representatives of the rising proletariat whose sister she was in order not to be thrown off the train as a member of the bourgeoisie . In 1928 the White Dacha was completely restored.
Maria's younger brother Mikhail (1865-1936) later moved in with her in Yalta and helped catalog the inventory. The siblings each lived in the house until their death and were buried at the mother's side. Maria died on January 15, 1957. She was 94 years old and at least survived an earthquake in the White Datsche in 1927, the occupation of the Wehrmacht in Yalta from November 8, 1941 to April 16, 1944 and one as a German “farewell present” in 1944 Air Force attack .
Visitors
Well-known visitors were, for example, Leo Tolstoy , Fyodor Chalyapin , Sergei Rachmaninow , Maxim Gorky and, more recently, Leonid Kuchma and Vladimir Putin .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian Белая Дача - The white dacha
- ↑ Russian Шаповалов, Лев Николаевич (1873–1956)
- ↑ Russian Chekhova, Maria Pawlowna
- ^ Yevgenia Jakowlewna Chekhova (née Morosowa; 1835-1919)
- ↑ Russian history of the museum
- ↑ Restoration in 1928
- ↑ Russian history of the museum ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Edited by antonchekhovfoundation.org
Coordinates: 44 ° 29 ′ 28 " N , 34 ° 8 ′ 29.5" E