Chekhov House Museum

Chekhov House Museum

Chekhov House Museum
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Neighbourhood: Garden Ring
How to get there
  • Barrikadnaya • 4 min walk
  • Krasnopresnenskaya • 7 min walk
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4.5
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Andrzej116
London, UK373 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
May 2014 • Couples
Having done the Gorky House Museum and wondered down to have lunch at Coffeemania ( nice chain ) it was time for some Chekov -yes we we were having an alternative Moscow day. Not easy to locate as you have to step over a half opened gate- an interesting selection of furnishings, photos & artifacts but of course you are in rooms that Chekov one of the greatest Russian writers lived in. English handouts are available in each room. Enjoyed it for the atmosphere of the past.
Written 5 June 2014
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world explorer
New York City, NY107 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2014 • Friends
This is a small house, and it really does not take much time to visit, but what totally floored me was his actual medical license on the wall!!! Many people forget that he was a doctor. There are also many photos of him as he traveled to take care of the sick, and it also has some of his other belongings. There is one photo of him with Tolstoy. I did not really know they were friends, but they actually corresponded with each other. Whenever I said CHEKOV, the woman at the musuem kept on pronouncing his name correctly......SHAREKOHHHHHFFFE. That is how it sounded. Oh well, my Russian was really bad.
Written 7 February 2014
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coolpapabell
New York City, NY60 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2012 • Solo
Not a "wow", but still worthwhile visiting. His desk, his bed, some photos, some manuscripts, a room of posters...He only lived there briefly before he got sick. Great location across the street from one of Moscow's 7 Sisters and the recently reopened Planetarium. Take a further stroll up the ring road towards Mayakavskaya and grab a bite at Stolle for a slice of meat or salmon pie.
Written 16 March 2012
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TC0241
Lautrec, France1,265 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2011 • Friends
The place is right on the Garden Ring, almost opposite to the Moscow Zoo entrance. Slightly difficult to locate as the signs are small but well worth the effort.
Dom Muzei AP Chekhova (Chekhov House Museum) - Sadovo-Kudrinskaia Ulitsa 6, Moscow, RU-103001, Russia, RU
Hours of Operation: Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun. 11 - 6, Wed. and Fri. 2 - 9.
Local English magazine artical (Thanks to Passport)
http://www.passportmagazine.ru/article/2165/
The actual museum which was the Chekhov's Moscow home was very interesting and well laid out and organized.
Plenty of items on display providing insights into personal family life as well as the writers profession. Many Photographs which was unexpected.
All exhibits are in Russian but there are cards in each room in different languages to help everyone (a nice touch I am seeing in more russian sites these days)
If you are a fan of the author it is a must see and a great way to better understand his life.
Probably 45 minutes worth of entertainment but could be tagged on to a visit to many other attractions in the area (10-15 minutes from Gorky's house) the Zoo, Planetarium, Arbat, etc
Written 21 August 2011
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Erkinbek K
85 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2018
The Chekhov House Museum is one of the "must do" things while being in Moscow. It reflects Chekhov's and his relatives' lives in Moscow, which is not always known. it won't take too much time but gives a flavor of Chekhov's live in the city.
Written 16 June 2018
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Amethyst L
Berkeley 23 contributions
2.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2016 • Solo
Entry: 250 rub, if you want to take pictures: 100 rub (not worth)
I didn't buy a photo ticket, only took pictures of the house from the outside.

There is a description of each room in English, no audio guide. Descriptions are useful but somewhat repetitive and a bit incoherent. For some reason, there are some rooms you can look at from quite a distance, which I simply cannot understand. Makes me feel like I was more distanced, or kept distant on purpose - c.f. you could almost even touch items in Tolstoy's House, where about 500.000 items are the original ones.

The organization of the exhibition was also a bit chaotic, many of the scripts below pictures had English translation, which completely vanished when you got to the last room - interesting.
Of course, I also lack the knowledge about him, yet this exhibition did not inspire me to jump into reading one of his works. He was an interesting figure for sure, but I am not convinced.
Written 4 August 2016
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Oleg Y
Belgrade, Serbia2,702 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2015 • Couples
In the Sadovaya - Kudrinskaya (section of Garden Ring) is located this pleasant, small house, in which Anton Pavlovich Chekhov lived from 1886 to 1890. The colour of the house is red, and as Chekhov once wrote, " the colour of the house is liberal, i.e.red.
His museum opened here for the first time in 1953 and underwent some cleaning and little bit a restoration in 2003.
We saw the bedrooms, since he lived here with his brother and sister, then drawing room and study, all intact. As they were in the last decade of nineteenth century, they remained up to now.
An impression of the peaceful and cultured family life reigns here, within this house-museum, with walls decorated with paintings that were given to Chekhov by Levitan,the very good russian painter(the contemporary of Repin, Surikov, Vasnetsov,Polenov, Shishkin,Vrubel,Kramskoy and others). Also Shekhtel (art - nouveau architect) whose Gorky's House we visited previously, had given some paintings to Chekhov as well.
Among the photographs of Chekhov, there are some of them, with the literary greats Leo Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky.
Very nice and interesting house-museum of a great playwright and physician in his vocation.
Written 2 June 2016
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Elliemae521
London, UK17 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2016 • Solo
Chekhov's House really stands out on this busy road. Inside it is so peaceful and is one of the few museums I have visited in Moscow that has genuinely helpful and kind staff. I had some questions and they answered them very well and were delighted to be able to inform me! The museum is clean and well-kept, and gives a snapshot of Moscow life for the Russian author. One of the nicest and cosiest House Museums I have been to.
Written 10 October 2016
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