CHEKHOV MUSEUM (ЧЕХОВА МУЗЕЙ)

This house, built in 1898 and known as Bielaya Dacha, «the White House», belonged to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and his sister Maria Pavlovna. With tuberculosis, Chekhov spent several years in Crimea, whose climate was beneficial to him. In the museum-house you can see a telephone that Anton Pavlovich had installed (it was one of Yalta only). It was thus in contact with Moscow theatre life. After each first, he called his wife, Olga Knipper, who was also the greatest actress in Moscow's drama drama, who showed him the first impressions of the public on his new pieces. After the author's death, his sister was committed to collecting all his letters, manuscripts and photos in order to establish a museum in the memory of his brother. When the Germans invaded the city during the Second World War, Maria denied them access to the museum house and they respected his decision. It was in this house that he wrote La Lady to the little dog, Les Trois Sisters and La Orchard. The garden is simply splendid and offers a wide variety of plants and flowers. Created by Anton Pavlovich, he was passionately maintained by his sister, for whom each tree bore the soul of his missing brother.