Museum 'Chekhov and Crimea'

About museum

The museum's exhibition is located on the ground floor of an old mansion reminiscent of a Gothic castle. This was the former dacha of the general's wife K. M. Ilovayskaya, 'Omyur' — a person, according to an unnamed Voronezh journalist of 1914, 'who knew the whole literary world'. It is here that the Yalta chapter of Anton Pavlovich's life and work begins. The writer lived and worked in this mansion from October 1898 to April 1899.
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\r\nWithin the walls of this very 'castle' the plan for the future Yalta house and garden was created. Here Chekhov found the seclusion so important to a writer, the opportunity to work quietly and to meet people who interested him.
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\r\nChekhov's period of life at the 'Omyur' dacha is one of the most intense and productive. Here, in just half a year, Anton Pavlovich wrote the stories 'The Darling', 'A Case from Practice', 'On Official Business', 'The New Dacha', reworked two of his stories 'The Tenant' and 'The Excise Man', and it was here that he conceived the idea for the very Yalta story 'The Lady with the Dog'. Within these walls A.P. Chekhov concluded an agreement with publisher A.F. Marks for the sale of the author's rights to all works, both past and future. Here Chekhov also edited 60 of his stories for the Complete Works. From the total amount received from Marks, Chekhov allocated 5,000 rubles for the construction of the 'Yauzlar' sanatorium, which now bears the name of the great Russian writer.