Chekhov Shop

The Chekhov Shop

Музей "Лавка Чеховых"
The old sign on the entrance reads "Tea, sugar, coffee, and other colonial goods"
Established	1977
Location	Ulitsa Alexandrovskaya 100, Taganrog
Type	memorial house
Director	Yevgeniya Petrovna Konoplyova Коноплева, Евгения Петровна

The Chekhov Shop is a museum in Taganrog, Russia. This is a two-storey house where the famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov stayed with his family from 1869 to 1874.

The building was built in late 1840s and is located on the crossing of Alexandrovskaya (formerly Monastirskaya Street) and Gogol Street (formerly Yarmarochniy Pereulok). The Chekhov family rented this building from the merchant Ivan Moiseev. The family moved into this building due to commercial interests of Anton Chekhov’s father. The shop’s entry featured a sign "Tea, sugar, coffee, and other colonial goods".

When Anton’s father was away on business, he had to replace him serving as shop assistant and keeping the accounting records. It is on the first floor of this house that the future world-famous playwright wrote his first stories and staged amateur theatricals with other Chekhov family children or with gymnasium fellow students.

November 3, 1977 museum "The Chekhov Shop" was open offering visitors objects and documents related to Chekhov youth years and life of the Chekhov family.

Photographs

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  The Chekhov Shop museum after renovation in 2010, during the Chekhov 150th birth anniversary celebrations in Taganrog
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  The shop’s entry sign reads "Tea, sugar, coffee, and other colonial goods"
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  Memorial plaque on Chekhov Shop museum. The inscription reads:"In this house Anton Chekhov spent 5 years of his childhood (1869-1874).And in this same building the writer's father kept his shop."
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  Old weights
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  Samovar, coffee grinder and coffee pot. Collection of the Chekhov Shop memorial museum.
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  Chekhov family's piano from the collection of the Chekhov Shop memorial museum
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  The drawing room at the Chekhov Shop museum

References

• Taganrog Encyclopedia (Энциклопедия Таганрога), 2nd edition, Taganrog, 2003

Coordinates: 47°12′58″N 38°55′05″E / 47.2160°N 38.9180°E / 47.2160; 38.9180

Landmarks and tourist attractions in Taganrog, Russia
Museums	Alferaki Palace Taganrog Museum of Art Birthhouse of Anton Chekhov Taganrog City Architectural Development Museum Ivan Vasilenko Museum Chekhov Gymnasium Anatoly Durov Museum Chekhov Shop Taganrog military museum
Monuments	Peter I Monument in Taganrog Alexander I Statue in Taganrog Chekhov Monument in Taganrog Monuments to Chekhov's Heroes Garibaldi Monument Great Patriotic War Monuments Gully of Petrushino Memorial Lenin Monument in Taganrog Monument to Defenders of Taganrog in 1855 Ranevskaya Monument
Related to Anton Chekhov or Chekhov family	Birthhouse of Anton Chekhov Chekhov Gymnasium Taganrog Theatre Chekhov Shop Alexandrovskiye Trade Rows Greek Church and Greek School Gorky Park (Taganrog) Chekhov Monument in Taganrog Peter I Monument in Taganrog Chekhov Library
Churches	St.Nicholas Church in Taganrog The All-Saints Church in Taganrog
Destroyed landmarks	The Assumption Cathedral in Taganrog Cherepakha Islet Greek Monastery in Taganrog Greek Church and Greek School House with Bullets Old Stone Steps Taganrog Fortress Taganrog Old Prison Yelizavetinsky Park
Historical buildings or mansions	Alexander I Palace Avgerino mansion Kelya of Saint Pavel of Taganrog Mariinskaya Gymnasium Shakhmatov House Tchaikovsky House in Taganrog Taganrog Old Station Country Court
Other	Pushkin Embankment in Taganrog City bar in Taganrog Taganrog Old Cemetery
Related articles	History of Taganrog List of People in Taganrog