House-Museum of AP Chekhov

The second homeland of the writer A.P. Chekhov was Ukraine. Ukrainian roots stretch from his grandmother along the lines of his father E. E. Shimko. As a child, little Chekhov often heard Ukrainian speech at home. Children sang Ukrainian songs, often played in the home play “about Chuprun and Chuprunuha”.

That is why when Chekhov became a writer, he chose "broad-leaved Ukraine" as a place of summer vacation and visited the Poltava and Kharkov provinces. During the rest, Chekhov liked to acquire Ukrainian works. For example, the works of T. G. Shevchenko he bought in Lviv. And in his story “Three Years”, the writer reflected the song motives “I did not marry a rich man”. Traveling in Sumy, Chekhov continued to work on dramaturgy and prose (he created the stories “Beauty” and “Troubles”) while observing folk life. It was Sumy’s impressions that prompted me to write the stories “Boring Story”, “Name Day” and the plays “The Seagull” and “The Goblin”.