A neo-gothic mansion of the Ilovaiskys was built in 1888 to the design of an amateur architect Konstantin Ovsyany. After the fashion of that time the building has a name – Omyur- meaning ‘life’ in Turkic. The writer got acquainted with the family of Ilovaisky in 1892 while visiting a stud-farm in Voronezh region, together with his friend, a publisher form St-Petersburg Alexey Suvorin, in order to raise money for famine relief.
28 October 1898, Chekhov wrote to Suvorin from Yalta: 

It was at the “Omyur” dacha that Chekhov learned from the telegram of the actors and directors of the Moscow Art Theatre about the success of “The Seagull”. 

The writer discussed the design of his own future house and garden with his sister Maria and the architect Leo Shapovalov. Nearly every day, he visited Verkhnyaya Autka to supervise the construction. 

The first personal meeting of Chekhov and MaxIm Gorky took place at the “Omyur” dacha, in March 1899, afterwards they met every day and talked walking around Yalta. In the bottom part of the display board there is a copy of the first Gorky’s letter to Chekhov and the picture of the writers in an Autka street.
While staying with the Ilovaiskys, Chekhov also got acquainted with the future famous writer and artist, Maximillian Voloshin. 

The picture in the frame is a drawing of ‘Omyur’ by Sergey Chekhov, the writer’s nephew. Under the frame there are old post cards with the views of Chekhov’s time Yalta: the church of St.John Chrysostom, a flower garden at the embankment.