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Chekhov Readings Held in Yalta

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Chekhov Readings Held in Yalta


25.01.2016

On 22-24 January 2016, Russian School, a Ukrainian non-governmental organization, hosted the January Chekhov readings in Yalta with support from the Russkiy Mir Foundation. Since 2006 the Chekhov House Museum has been launching long-term projects and announcing major events to be organized by Russian School in the upcoming years on the eve of Chekhov’s birthday.

In January 2012 the House Museum launched an international expedition entitled “Chekhov. Sakhalin Island” featuring researchers from Ukraine, Russia, Sri Lanka and Sweden who covered 25,000 kilometers in 47 days to walk Chekhov’s route to Sakhalin Island. In January 2013 the museum hosted a presentation of a new scientific and educational magazine Russian School, now with a circulation of over 2,000 copies. In January 2014, the museum announced the international teachers’ competition entitled “Crystal Inkpot. Lermontov’s Lesson” involving teachers from five countries. January of 2015 saw the launch of an international expedition named “Caucasus’s Russian Muse,” with representatives of ten European countries traveling across the Georgian Military Road to Georgia and Armenia, going the routes of Pushkin, Lermontov, Griboedov, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Shevchenko.

In January 2016, the museum brought together students and professors from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The organizers announced a new project entitled “From Black Sea to White Sea—from Chersonesus to Solovki,” an international expedition for students and scholars along the meridian connecting the two seas of the Orthodox Christian world.

The three-day Chekhov Readings included a seminar dedicated to the intellectual game ‘I Know!’ with candidates from 16 countries submitting applications. Over 15,000 schoolchildren and 1,000 college students will take part in the 2016 game. The readings culminated in a Chekhov round, with every participant learning many facts about the life and works of Anton Chekhov and receiving a pen and a certificate. The winners were awarded medals, certificates and books.

The event concluded with a tour of the writer’s house organized by the hosts of the Chekhov House Museum.

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