Exhibition of the A. P. Chekhov House-Museum

About exhibition

In the two-story stone wing on the Garden Ring, which the Chekhovs rented from the well-known physician Ya. A. Korneev, the writer lived from August 27, 1886 until his departure for Sakhalin Island and the East in April 1890. It was here that the plays "Ivanov", "The Wood Demon" (Leshiy), "The Bear", "A Marriage Proposal" (Predlozhenie), "The Wedding" (Svadba), "A Tragedian in Spite of Himself" (Tragik ponevole), "Tatyana Repina", the novellas "The Steppe", "Lights" and "A Boring Story", and more than 200 short stories were written. In the memorial rooms of the house it is easy to imagine the way of life of a modest family whose main income was Anton Chekhov's writing. In the halls of the literary exhibition one can see how the author of the "small press" gradually emerged as a writer of major literature, and trace Chekhov's entire creative path: from Taganrog to Yalta. The museum's permanent exhibition features editions of Chekhov's works published during his lifetime, a rare collection of photographs of the writer and his circle, personal belongings and items that belonged to his family, and a collection of theatrical posters and phototype prints.