Chekhov Museum Sumy
The Chekhov Museum Sumy ( Russian Дом-музей Чехова (Сумы) , Dom-musei Chekhova (Sumy) ) is the house at 79 Chekhov Street in Sumy , Luka district in northeastern Ukraine . Anton Chekhov stayed temporarily in the house between May 6, 1888 and August 1894. The museum opened for the writer's 100th birthday on January 29, 1960.
As a summer retreat for the years 1888, 1889 and 1894 Anton Chekhov rented an outbuilding in the property of his Petersburg friend, the Russian noble pianist and later Duma deputy Georgi Michailowitsch Lintvarjow (1865-1943). The writer spent the summers there with his family. The musician Lintvarjow was in love with Chekhov's younger sister Marija Pavlovna Chekhova (1863–1957).
Chekhov's numerous guests in the house included his friend, the publisher Alexei Suvorin , the writers Kasimir Baranzewitsch and Ignati Potapenko, and the poet Alexei Pleschtschejew .
Anton Chekhov processed impressions from the immediate vicinity of Sumy in the stories The Name Day and A Boring Story , in the comedy Der Waldschrat and in the dramas The Seagull and Uncle Vanja .
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- ↑ Russian Lintvarjow, Georgi Michailowitsch
- ↑ Russian Chekhova, Marija Pawlowna
- ↑ Russian Baranzewitsch, Kasimir Stanislawowitsch
- ↑ Russian Potapenko, Ignati Nikolajewitsch
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 4 ″ N , 34 ° 49 ′ 45 ″ E