Chekhov's shop
Chekhov's shop ( Russian Лавка Чеховых , Lawka Chekhovych ) at Taganroger Alexanderstraße 100 has been set up as the Chekhov Museum since January 1st, 1975. From 1869 to 1874, high school student Anton Chekhov lived with his parents and siblings on the upper floor of the house shown above on the right. Anton Chekhov's father ran a grocery store on the ground floor . The father had rented the house, which was built in the 1840s, in those years. About the shop door a sign saying invited "tea, sugar, coffee and other groceries a" buyer.
According to the museum concept, the exhibits, family photos, etc. presented since 1975 want to testify about Anton Chekhov's early youth. When father went into town, young Anton also had to help out with the customers. Memories of encounters with customers from those years later gave the writer material for his stories Wanka , Schlafen! , A difficult case , The Choir , The Bishop , a family man and severity natures taken.
On May 13, 2011, a sculpture was unveiled in front of the house, which the artist Dawid Begalow designed after Chekhov's The Fat and the Thin .
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- ↑ Russian Александровская улица - Alexandrowskaja uliza , named after Alexander I.
- ↑ Russian Begalow, Dawid Rubenowitsch
Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ′ 58 ″ N , 38 ° 43 ′ 4 ″ E