🖼 Chekhov House Museum

Садовая-Кудринская ул., 6

A two-storey red-brick house on Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya where Chekhov lived with his family in 1886–1890.

Chekhov called the house "the chest of drawers", for its unusual layout with projections and its red walls.
The Chekhovs rented the apartment from Dr Yakov Korneev for 650 roubles a year.
The Steppe, A Dreary Story and the plays Ivanov, The Bear and The Proposal were written here.
Chekhov also saw patients here, daily from 12 to 3 o'clock by his own account.
Korolenko, Pleshcheyev, Gilyarovsky and the architect Fyodor Shekhtel were among the visitors.
From here on 21 April 1890 Chekhov set off on his journey to Sakhalin.
The permanent exhibition opened on 14 July 1954, for the 50th anniversary of the writer's death.

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