Having already settled in Yalta, Chekhov thought about purchasing a small house at the seaside. Yalta seemed too noisy to him, and numerous fans, according to the writer himself, literally droop on his fence. Chekhov was looking for solitude and peace. That time, Gurzuf was considered a popular resort. The writer saw the future house as a harbor of calmness and silence, where he could rest and create.
The photo shows Chekhov’s Gurzuf dacha, bought in early 1900. This is a one-storey building with four rooms. It was assumed that close friends and family members of Anton Pavlovich would stay here in the summer. The house itself was rather dowdy, but the views around were stunning, and Chekhov bought the house without bargaining.
Having acquired the dacha in January 1900, Anton Pavlovich wrote to his family that he now owns a piece of the coast ‘with swimming area and Pushkin’s rock near the pier and park’. He also mentioned a small bay for a boat. Chekhov called the house “crappy, but tiled”.
In the summer of 1900, the writer’s mother, sister, brother Ivan and his family and Olga Leonardovna Knipper came to the Gurzuf dacha. During the summer months Chekhov’s brothers Mikhail and Alexander also visited this house. Chekhov did not tell almost any of his friends about this little dacha. Only Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and Vera Feodorovna Komissarzhevskaya visited it during the writer’s lifetime. Anton Pavlovich presented Vera Feodorovna his signed photo: ‘To Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya, August 3, on a stormy day when the sea bellowed, from the quiet Anton Chekhov.’
Chekhov did not stay in Gurzuf for long. The proximity to the sea and high humidity had a pernicious effect on his health. He began work on the play ‘Three Sisters’ here.
Olga Leonardovna Knippe, the writer’s wife, was indicated as the heritress of the Gurzuf dacha in Chekhov’s will. Actors of the ‘Kachalov group’ stayed here while touring the southern provinces of Russia. Svyatoslav Richter with Nina Dorliak, Ivan Kozlovsky, Oleg Efremov stayed in the Gurzuf house in different years.
In 1953 Olga Leonardovna visited Gurzuf for the las time. When she has passed away, the dacha devolved to Konstantin Korovin’s House of Arts. The view of the Gurzufskaya Bay has always attracted artists. It was painted by Rockwell Kent, Ivan Aivazovsky, Emmanuel Magdesyan, Vasily Meshkov, Kukryniksy, and other famous artists. In 1987, the writer’s house in Gurzuf was transferred to the A.P. Chekhov’s Yalta Museum.
The photo shows Chekhov’s Gurzuf dacha, bought in early 1900. This is a one-storey building with four rooms. It was assumed that close friends and family members of Anton Pavlovich would stay here in the summer. The house itself was rather dowdy, but the views around were stunning, and Chekhov bought the house without bargaining.
Having acquired the dacha in January 1900, Anton Pavlovich wrote to his family that he now owns a piece of the coast ‘with swimming area and Pushkin’s rock near the pier and park’. He also mentioned a small bay for a boat. Chekhov called the house “crappy, but tiled”.
In the summer of 1900, the writer’s mother, sister, brother Ivan and his family and Olga Leonardovna Knipper came to the Gurzuf dacha. During the summer months Chekhov’s brothers Mikhail and Alexander also visited this house. Chekhov did not tell almost any of his friends about this little dacha. Only Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and Vera Feodorovna Komissarzhevskaya visited it during the writer’s lifetime. Anton Pavlovich presented Vera Feodorovna his signed photo: ‘To Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya, August 3, on a stormy day when the sea bellowed, from the quiet Anton Chekhov.’
Chekhov did not stay in Gurzuf for long. The proximity to the sea and high humidity had a pernicious effect on his health. He began work on the play ‘Three Sisters’ here.
Olga Leonardovna Knippe, the writer’s wife, was indicated as the heritress of the Gurzuf dacha in Chekhov’s will. Actors of the ‘Kachalov group’ stayed here while touring the southern provinces of Russia. Svyatoslav Richter with Nina Dorliak, Ivan Kozlovsky, Oleg Efremov stayed in the Gurzuf house in different years.
In 1953 Olga Leonardovna visited Gurzuf for the las time. When she has passed away, the dacha devolved to Konstantin Korovin’s House of Arts. The view of the Gurzufskaya Bay has always attracted artists. It was painted by Rockwell Kent, Ivan Aivazovsky, Emmanuel Magdesyan, Vasily Meshkov, Kukryniksy, and other famous artists. In 1987, the writer’s house in Gurzuf was transferred to the A.P. Chekhov’s Yalta Museum.
