Exhibition 'Chekhov and Crimea'

About exhibition

The museum is located in Yalta, in the old mansion 'Omyur', built in 1886 and belonging to the well-known noble Ilovaysky family. A. P. Chekhov occupied several rooms on the first floor of the mansion, where he spent the first six months of his life in Yalta while his main house was being constructed. The museum's exhibition is presented in the three rooms that the writer occupied. The halls display items from the museum's collections. In the first hall, visitors' attention is drawn to a portrait of A. P. Chekhov seated at his writing desk, painted by Yalta artist S. P. Antipov in 1959. In the built-in glass cabinets is a series of artworks by Yalta sculptor Nikolai Vakulenko: terracotta grotesque figurines of characters from the stories. Each piece reveals the author's unique talent and his remarkable gift for expressing the character and soul of the figures. The living-room exhibition is devoted to Chekhov's places in Crimea: Yalta, Sevastopol, Feodosia, Bakhchisaray, and the southern coastal settlements of the Crimea — Alupka, Simeiz, Foros, Mukhalatka — which A. P. Chekhov visited repeatedly. Here are various documents, historical photographs, and items connected with the writer and the periods of his travels in Crimea. The third hall is a memorial room dedicated to the period of A. P. Chekhov's life at the 'Omyur' dacha. The room recreates the atmosphere of the period when the famous writer lived there, and presents authentic items from the collection of the A. P. Chekhov House-Museum in Yalta: furniture, personal belongings of the Chekhov family, gifts given by admirers of his talent, and souvenirs that he brought back from his travels.