Chekhov’s mother, Yevgeniya Yakovlevna, lived permanently with him in Yalta.
The writer’s mother was a daughter of Yakov Morozov, a merchant who later became a representative of Taganrog mayor, the general Pyotr Papkov. The Morozovs were native to the Fofanovo village in Vladimir governorate. The family legend tells that the Morozovs descended from Old Believers and were remote relatives of the famous factory owners, Savva and Vikula Morozov. Chekhov later wrote about his maternal ancestors: ‘My mother, native of Shuisky uyezd (district), 50 years ago visited Palekh and Sergueev … staying with her relatives, icon painters who lived high at that time, … in a 2-storey house… According to her impressions, the living was good then; they obtained orders from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg for large churches’.
Yevgeniya was semiliterate, she was educated at home. In Taganrog she was sent to the ‘privileged boarding school for young ladies named after madam KurIlova’ where she was taught dancing, good manners and courtesy. Both in MElikhovo and in Moscow, all the household chores fell on her shoulders. The writer’s mother was a good hostess. TatiAna SchEpkina-KupErnik, a Russian and Soviet writer, playwright, poetesses and translator, a close acquaintance of the Chekhov family, remembered:
The writer’s mother was a daughter of Yakov Morozov, a merchant who later became a representative of Taganrog mayor, the general Pyotr Papkov. The Morozovs were native to the Fofanovo village in Vladimir governorate. The family legend tells that the Morozovs descended from Old Believers and were remote relatives of the famous factory owners, Savva and Vikula Morozov. Chekhov later wrote about his maternal ancestors: ‘My mother, native of Shuisky uyezd (district), 50 years ago visited Palekh and Sergueev … staying with her relatives, icon painters who lived high at that time, … in a 2-storey house… According to her impressions, the living was good then; they obtained orders from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg for large churches’.
Yevgeniya was semiliterate, she was educated at home. In Taganrog she was sent to the ‘privileged boarding school for young ladies named after madam KurIlova’ where she was taught dancing, good manners and courtesy. Both in MElikhovo and in Moscow, all the household chores fell on her shoulders. The writer’s mother was a good hostess. TatiAna SchEpkina-KupErnik, a Russian and Soviet writer, playwright, poetesses and translator, a close acquaintance of the Chekhov family, remembered:
