Melikhovo, Literary museum estate in Melikhovo, Russia

Melikhovo is a literary museum estate in Melikhovo, Russia, comprising a main residence, several outbuildings, an orchard, and a medical consulting room. The rooms display nineteenth-century furniture, personal belongings of the writer, and a collection of manuscripts and photographs documenting his years in the countryside.

Chekhov purchased the estate in 1892 and lived there for seven years, writing more than forty works including The Seagull and Uncle Vanya. After his departure in 1899, the property changed hands several times before being converted into a museum in the mid-twentieth century.

The estate's name refers to the village of Melikhovo, home to farming communities for centuries and later associated with the writer who settled here in the 1890s. Visitors today see the main house with its simple rooms where the author worked at a desk facing the garden, as well as the small clinic where he treated hundreds of patients each year.

The museum grounds are located about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Moscow and are accessible by car or public transport, with guided tours available through the buildings and gardens. Most visitors spend around an hour and a half to two hours exploring the rooms and outdoor areas, and warm footwear is recommended for walking the garden paths during cooler months.

Chekhov's study doubled as his medical office, where sick villagers gathered outside the house from five or six in the morning. He kept medicines in a cabinet on the wall for his patients. During the cholera epidemic of 1892–1893 he was responsible for the medical care of 26 villages, seven factories, and a monastery.