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Chekhov's Moscow

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8 points6 km2 hours

The “Chekhov's Moscow” route invites you to walk past landmark addresses where the great writer lived, worked and spent his last days in the city. You'll see Moscow through the eyes of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, step into the atmosphere of his stories and learn how the rhythm of the capital inspired his work.

Photo of route author Ekaterina Kvitko

Route author

Ekaterina Kvitko

Things to do

  • 🗺️🎒 Themed route
  • 🔍🖼️ Spot interesting details
  • 📚🎬 Recall films and books

Route points (8)

  1. House on Trubnaya Street — point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

    House on Trubnaya Street

    📜 Historic site

  2. School of Contemporary Play Theater — point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

    School of Contemporary Play Theater

    🎭 Theater · 📜 Historic site

  3. Novo-Yekaterininskaya Hospital — point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

    Novo-Yekaterininskaya Hospital

    📜 Historic site

  4. A. A. Sheshkov Apartment Building — point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

    A. A. Sheshkov Apartment Building

    📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark

  5. I. I. Karzinkin Apartment Building — point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

    I. I. Karzinkin Apartment Building

    📜 Historic site

  6. I. M. Korovin Apartment Building — point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

    I. M. Korovin Apartment Building

    📜 Historic site

  7. Chekhov's Little House Exhibition Hall — point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

    Chekhov's Little House Exhibition Hall

    🏛️ Museum · 📜 Historic site

  8. R. P. Sablin Apartment Building — point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

    R. P. Sablin Apartment Building

    📜 Historic site

A. A. Sheshkov Apartment Building in Moscow

Point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

A. A. Sheshkov Apartment Building — point on route “Chekhov's Moscow”

Point 4

A. A. Sheshkov Apartment Building

📜 Historic site • 🏟️ Architectural landmark

Chekhov and Tolstoy

The merchant A. A. Sheshkov's apartment building on Malaya Dmitrovka Street is one of the important Moscow addresses in Chekhov's life in the late 1890s. It was here, in the spring of 1899, that Anton Chekhov's path crossed again with Leo Tolstoy's; the writer had met him a few years earlier on a trip to Yasnaya Polyana. That meeting made a deep impression on Chekhov: he recalled that next to Tolstoy he felt relaxed and free, “at home.” On April 27, 1899, Tolstoy visited Chekhov in this apartment, still under the strong impression of his story “The Darling.” But no real conversation came of it: Chekhov had a houseful of people, and, as he himself wrote, the guests got in the way. The apartment on Malaya Dmitrovka was an important literary hub of its time. Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, Isaac Levitan, Vladimir Gilyarovsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko all visited. The writer's sister, Maria Pavlovna Chekhova, also lived here.