Chekhov’s last photo in Yalta was taken on April 18, 1904. It depicts how the writer walks through the Yalta garden, accompanied by four-legged friends - the dogs Kashtanka and Tuzik.
The photo was taken by Leonid Valentinovich Sredin (1860-1909), a surgeon and a public figure. Like Chekhov, he graduated from the Medical Faculty of Moscow University. He worked in Moscow, fell ill with tuberculosis and went to live in Yalta. In Yalta, he settled in a rented apartment. The owner of the apartment was the Itinerant artist Grigory Fedorovich Yartsev (1858-1918). This apartment was the center of the Yalta intellectuals and visiting guests. Chekhov, Rachmaninov, Chaliapin, Gorky, Leonid Andreev, Bunin, Vasnetsov, Ermolova have visited it. The artist Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov noted that some unknown force attracted both Yalta inhabitants and visitors to the Crimea to the Sredins’ balcony. Actress Ermolova admitted that it was thanks to Sredin that she fell in love with the Crimea and Yalta. In his house, all visitors and guests were charged with vital energy and optimism. And this is even though Leonid Valentinovich himself, like Chekhov, was terminally ill. Two Yalta doctors, graduates of the Medical Faculty of Moscow University, had a lot to talk about.
The Yalta climate had almost no effect on improving Chekhov’s condition. And the wet Crimean winter was even dangerous for his health, which was lowering catastrophically. On May 1, 1904, Anton Pavlovich left his house in Yalta for the last time, heading to the train station, from where he left for Moscow and further to the German resort of Badenweiler.
The following Chekhov’s note dates to this time: “Farewell. I”m going to die… Bow to my comrades from me… Wish them happiness and success from me. We won”t meet again”. Anton Pavlovich, together with Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova, went to Germany on June 3, 1904. In Badenweiler they were on the 9th or 10th. The couple rented rooms at the “Sommer” hotel. The attending physician of the writer was a German named Schwerer. Chekhov considered him an excellent specialist. On June 27, Anton Pavlovich developed heart failure. The next day his condition worsened. On July 2 (15) the great Russian writer died in Badenweiler.
The photo was taken by Leonid Valentinovich Sredin (1860-1909), a surgeon and a public figure. Like Chekhov, he graduated from the Medical Faculty of Moscow University. He worked in Moscow, fell ill with tuberculosis and went to live in Yalta. In Yalta, he settled in a rented apartment. The owner of the apartment was the Itinerant artist Grigory Fedorovich Yartsev (1858-1918). This apartment was the center of the Yalta intellectuals and visiting guests. Chekhov, Rachmaninov, Chaliapin, Gorky, Leonid Andreev, Bunin, Vasnetsov, Ermolova have visited it. The artist Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov noted that some unknown force attracted both Yalta inhabitants and visitors to the Crimea to the Sredins’ balcony. Actress Ermolova admitted that it was thanks to Sredin that she fell in love with the Crimea and Yalta. In his house, all visitors and guests were charged with vital energy and optimism. And this is even though Leonid Valentinovich himself, like Chekhov, was terminally ill. Two Yalta doctors, graduates of the Medical Faculty of Moscow University, had a lot to talk about.
The Yalta climate had almost no effect on improving Chekhov’s condition. And the wet Crimean winter was even dangerous for his health, which was lowering catastrophically. On May 1, 1904, Anton Pavlovich left his house in Yalta for the last time, heading to the train station, from where he left for Moscow and further to the German resort of Badenweiler.
The following Chekhov’s note dates to this time: “Farewell. I”m going to die… Bow to my comrades from me… Wish them happiness and success from me. We won”t meet again”. Anton Pavlovich, together with Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova, went to Germany on June 3, 1904. In Badenweiler they were on the 9th or 10th. The couple rented rooms at the “Sommer” hotel. The attending physician of the writer was a German named Schwerer. Chekhov considered him an excellent specialist. On June 27, Anton Pavlovich developed heart failure. The next day his condition worsened. On July 2 (15) the great Russian writer died in Badenweiler.
