Cottage of Chekhov in Gurzuf, Literary museum in Gurzuf, Ukraine.

The Cottage of Chekhov in Gurzuf is a small Tatar saklya on a cape at the foot of the Jenevez-Kaya rock, at Chekhov Street 22. A wooden sign with carved Cyrillic letters reading "музей А.П. Чехова" hangs above the entrance. The low building is made of rough, light-brown stone blocks with a green-framed window; a white wall section adjoins it, and a black wrought-iron gate with circular ornaments stands to the right.

Chekhov bought the Tatar saklya in Gurzuf for 3,000 rubles in 1900, without bargaining, as a retreat from visitors in Yalta. His will of 3 August 1901 left the dacha to his wife, actress Olga Knipper, who spent summers there until 1953. In 1958 she sold it to the painter Meshkov; from 1963 it belonged to the USSR Union of Artists. Restored in 1987 on Oleg Efremov's initiative, it opened to visitors in 1995.

Chekhov called the cottage his "quiet retreat" and kept it from almost all his friends; only Vera Komissarzhevskaya and Ivan Bunin visited during his lifetime. He gave Komissarzhevskaya a photograph inscribed "3 August, on a stormy day when the sea roared." Since 1996 the rooms have held displays on Chekhov and Olga Knipper and on the writing of "Three Sisters."

The cottage stands at 22 Chekhov Street, on a small cape at the foot of the Jenevez-Kaya rock, reached on foot from Gurzuf's seafront. The museum is open from 1 March to 30 September, so visits outside that season are not possible. The display occupies three rooms.

Almost none of Chekhov's friends knew the Gurzuf cottage existed; during his lifetime only the actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya and the writer Ivan Bunin are recorded as visitors. In August 1900 he gave Komissarzhevskaya his photograph inscribed "to Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya, 3 August, on a stormy day when the sea roared, from quiet Anton Chekhov".