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      🖼 A. P. Chekhov Melikhovo Museum-Reserve

      Чеховский г. о., с. Мелихово

      The estate where Chekhov lived from 1892 to 1899: the main house, the outbuilding where “The Seagull” was written, the bathhouse, the kitchen outbuilding, the garden and the ponds.

      A. P. Chekhov Melikhovo Museum-Reserve
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      • The outbuilding where “The Seagull” was written was built in 1894 to Chekhov's own design.
      • The single-storey wooden main house was built in the 1840s and restored in the 1960s.
      • The museum opened in 1941; the writer's sister Maria Pavlovna and his nephew Sergey Mikhailovich Chekhov helped recreate the house's interiors.
      • The collection holds over 20,000 items, including paintings by Chekhov's friends Isaac Levitan and Vasily Polenov.
      • The monument to Chekhov, installed at the estate in 1951, is one of the first monuments to the writer in the USSR.
      • A sculpture of Chekhov's beloved dachshunds, Brom and Khina, stands at the estate.
      • After Chekhov, until 1908, the estate was owned by the factory owner S. N. Konshin.

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      • Melikhovo: Chekhov’s estate and Lopasnya

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