Chekhov Museum Melichowo
The Chekhov Museum Melikhovo ( Russian Государственный литературно-мемориальный музей-заповедник А. П. Чехова , State A. P. Chekhov -Literaturmuseum ) is a property about 80 km south of Moscow near the city Chekhov . The writer lived in the homestead from 1892 to 1899 with his parents and close relatives.
In December 1890 Anton Chekhov returned from his arduous Sakhalin trip to Moscow. On February 2, 1892, he bought the country house in Melichowo, which was built around 1840, and moved in with his parents and sister Maria (1863–1957) in early March.
Anton Chekhov practiced as a doctor on his estate. The patients came not only from the neighboring village of Melichowo, but also from 25 villages in the vicinity as well as from seven factories and a monastery. From 1896 to 1899, Chekhov had three schools built in the surrounding villages and donated inventory and school books.
Anton Chekhov completed two plays in Melichowo; in December 1895 Die Möwe and a year later Uncle Vanya . In the winter of 1898 he stayed in Nice . After his return he wrote - also in Melichowo - the stories The Man in the Sheath , About Love and The Gooseberries . Anton Chekhov invited Olga Knipper to Melichowo. The actress of Irina Arkadina in the seagull performance at the Moscow Art Theater stayed there for three days in mid-May 1899. Anton Chekhov received the writers Ignati Potapenko and Iwan Bunin as well as the theater director Vladimir Nemirowitsch-Danchenko in addition to ordinary people in Melichowo . Potapenko reports that Anton Chekhov sometimes went away for a few minutes during conversations or concerts and wrote down ideas in his study. Bunin passed on to posterity that Chekhov preferred coffee to tea, which is customary in Russia. Nemirowitsch-Danchenko observed Anton Chekhov in Melichowo for a long time. The theater director registered that the author felt comfortable there both with friends and alone in his garden. Anton Chekhov indulged in gardening, mushroom picking and fishing in Melichowo.
In the summer of 1899 Anton Chekhov sold the homestead and on August 25 - because of his tuberculosis disease - went to Yalta .
Baron Nikolai Stuart used the property as a summer residence until the Revolution . In the autumn of 1918 the Bolsheviks nationalized the homestead. 1927 from the state farm Anton Chekhov . In 1940 the house, which had since been destroyed, was rebuilt and opened as the Chekhov Museum Melichowo in early 1941 . In the war closed, the property in June 1944. State Monument and on 25 September of the same year was reopened as a museum. In 1954 the guest house was restored and the main building was rebuilt from 1957 to 1960. The garden with its fruit trees and flower beds was modeled on the garden in Chekhov's time. The restorations continued from 2011.
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Remarks
- ↑ Melichowo is about 10 km east of the city of Chekhov. The former village of Lopasnja (Russian Лопасня) was renamed the city of Chekhov in 1954.
- ↑ The father Pawel Jegorowitsch Chekhov (* 1825) died in 1898. The mother Evgenija Jakowlewna Chekhova (born Morosowa; * 1835) outlived her son Anton by 15 years.
- ↑ Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov married in May 1901.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian Chekhova, Marija Pawlowna
- ↑ Russian Potapenko, Ignati Nikolajewitsch
Coordinates: 55 ° 7 '0 " N , 37 ° 39' 0" E