The Chekhov Museum in Moscow is located in a small two-storey house on the Garden Ring. Chekhov`s family lived in this house from 1886 to 1890. Chekhov`s work began to flourish here, he began to write not only humorous stories, but also great novels. Anton Chekhov became a famous writer.
In 1876, Chekhov`s father went bankrupt. This forced him to sell his Shop in Taganrog and move to Moscow to hide from creditors. They lived in Moscow from 1876 to 1892. During these years, the Chekhov family changed 12 apartments, until in 1886 they settled in an apartment on the Garden Ring. It was the most comfortable housing where the Chekhov family lived for 4 years, until 1890.
Anton Chekhov decided to go on a big trip to Sakhalin in 1890, and the family moved to another less expensive apartment. After returning from Sakhalin, Chekhov briefly settled in another apartment, and in 1892 moved to the Melikhovo Estate in the south of the Moscow region. According to the memoirs of relatives, Anton Chekhov fell ill with tuberculosis when he was still living in an apartment on the Garden Ring, and a trip to Sakhalin only aggravated the disease.
The apartment that the Chekhov family rented on the Garden Ring was located in an wing. The house itself was demolished in subsequent years and multi-storey buildings were erected on this site. However, the wing was preserved, since museums began to be created in all the places where Anton Chekhov lived after his death in 1904.
The first Chekhov Museum in Moscow opened in 1912, 8 years after the death of the great Russian writer. At first, the Chekhov room was opened in the Rumyantsev Museum, which was located in Pashkov`s house on Mokhovaya Street. A full-fledged Chekhov Museum in the house where the Chekhov family lived in Moscow opened only in 1954. Now the museum occupies the entire two-storey building.
On the ground floor there are rooms dedicated to the works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. There are many documents, manuscripts and magazines where Chekhov`s stories were published. A large exhibition is dedicated to Chekhov`s friends and colleagues who were with him during his work.
On the second floor, the furniture of the apartment where the Chekhov lived in the 19th century has been completely recreated. Here you can see Anton Chekhov`s study and bedroom, the rooms of Mikhail, Evgenia and Maria Chekhovs, as well as the dining room and living room where the whole family gathered. On the second floor there is an exhibition where many of the writer`s personal belongings, original manuscripts, photographs, autographed books and much more are collected.
