Cottage of Chekhov in Gurzuf, Literary museum in Gurzuf, Ukraine.
The Cottage of Chekhov in Gurzuf is a small white house on the Black Sea coast that the writer used as a private retreat. The rooms have been kept largely as he left them, with original furniture, manuscripts, and personal objects on display.
Chekhov bought the house in 1899 and stayed there several times until his death in 1904. After he died, his sister Maria kept the property, and it officially became a museum in 1987.
Chekhov bought the cottage in secret, without telling his family, and treated it as a place entirely his own. Visitors today still see the furniture he chose himself, including his writing desk and his books.
The house is close to the center of Gurzuf and easy to reach on foot from the main street. A visit in the morning or early afternoon tends to be calmer, with fewer people around.
Chekhov wrote part of "Three Sisters" in this house, even though he had come there mainly to rest. He mentioned the place in letters as the one spot where he could truly write without being interrupted.
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