Photo: I. Braz. Portrait of A. Chekhov. Fragment. 1898. Stored in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow / mos.ru (CC BY 4.0)
A Chekhov monument has been erected in Heihe, Heilongjiang province of China, as reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Situated across the Amur River from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, Heihe is recognized as a leader in China for the prevalence of the Russian language. It is estimated that one in three residents speaks the language of Pushkin and Turgenev.
The monument depicts the Russian writer in full height. He is dressed in a cloak and hat, holding a traveling bag in one hand.
The monument in Heihe is based on a local legend suggesting that Chekhov visited the city on his way to Sakhalin. However, historical records indicate that the author of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard did not actually visit Heihe. Instead, he spent only a day and a half in Blagoveshchensk during his journey along the Amur in the summer of 1890, en route to Sakhalin Island. Chekhov documented this experience in letters to his brother Mikhail and publisher Suvorin.
As we reported
earlier, Seoul Cyber University has immortalised the memory of the Anton Chekhov and Alexander Pushkin by opening a monument and a stele on the territory of the university.
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