House-Museum of A.P. Chekhov

In Yalta on Kirov Street in the middle of a green garden stands the house in which Anton Pavlovich Chekhov lived his last years. Contemporaries called this house “White cottage” – painted white house stood out against the background of neighboring buildings.

In 1898, Chekhov moved to Yalta. The local climate is favorable for the patient consumption writer. The house with a wing was built according to the project of architect Shapovalov with the active participation of Chekhov himself. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin writes about the Chekhov dacha "... all white, clean, light, beautifully asymmetrical, built outside of any particular architectural style ..." In addition to Kuprin, White Dacha was visited more than once by Bunin, Chaliapin, Vasnetsov, Rachmaninov and many others.

In Yalta, Chekhov continues to work fruitfully. Here he writes the plays “Three Sisters” and “The Cherry Orchard”, the story “The Lady with the Dog”, prepares his own collection of works.

After the death of the writer, the house of the will remains his sister Maria Pavlovna, who turns White Dacha into a museum of the writer and remains its keeper all her life. Today, nine rooms of the museum house almost fourteen thousand exhibits telling about the life and creative path of the great Russian writer.