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Taganrog is a port city in Rostov Oblast in southern Russia, set on a cape on the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov, about 66 kilometers west of Rostov-on-Don. It is the westernmost city of the region and the birthplace of the writer Anton Chekhov.
The town was founded in 1698 on Cape Tagany Rog as the city of Holy Trinity, named after its church, and by the middle of the 18th century it had taken the name Taganrog. In the 19th century it was a busy trading port, where merchants such as the Greek-born Gerasim Depaldo and the Alferaki family left fine buildings, and Emperor Alexander I died here in 1825. Chekhov was born in Taganrog in 1860 and studied at its gymnasium until 1879.
Today visitors follow the life of Chekhov through his birthplace, his father's shop, his school and the theater that bears his name. They climb the old stone stairs to the sea, walk the Pushkin Embankment and visit palaces and museums in the leafy old town.
Chekhov's Birthplace in Taganrog is a tiny whitewashed cottage of 1850, just 35.5 square meters, where Anton Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860. His family rented it from late 1859 to March 1861, and a plaque was placed on it in 1910, the first step toward the memorial museum inside today.
The Chekhov Shop in Taganrog is a museum in a house of the 1840s that the Chekhov family rented in 1869-1874, when Anton was 9 to 14 years old. His father kept a grocery on the ground floor, which inspired stories such as Vanka, and the museum opened on 3 November 1977.
The Chekhov Gymnasium in Taganrog is the oldest school in the south of Russia, founded in 1806 as only the second commercial gymnasium in the Russian Empire, after Odessa. Anton Chekhov studied here until 1879, and the school has carried his name in various forms since the Soviet years.
The Chekhov Drama Theatre in Taganrog traces its company to 1827 and plays in a building put up in 1866 to a design by the Italian architect K. Londeron and N. V. Trusov. In 1845 it was among the first theaters to stage Woe from Wit, and it took the name of Chekhov in 1944.
The Stone Stairs of Taganrog lead from Grecheskaya Street down to Portovaya Street and the Pushkin Embankment, 108 meters long and 6.5 meters wide. They were built in 1823 with money left by the Greek-born patron Gerasim Depaldo, and the design is credited to the architect Franz Boffo.
The Pushkin Embankment runs for 1,085 meters along the shore of the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov in Taganrog, between the yacht club and the Birzhevoy descent. Long used for loading and storing goods, it was first laid out in 1827 and built up over the following two decades.
The Peter the Great Monument in Taganrog was set up in 1903 for the 200th anniversary of the city and is the last surviving full-size cast made under the eye of the sculptor Mark Antokolsky. The bronze tsar, 3.44 meters tall, stands on a granite pedestal 5.4 meters high.
The Governor's House on Grecheskaya Street in Taganrog, known locally as the Palace of Alexander I, is a one-story classical mansion built in 1806 and rebuilt in 1816 to a design by F. Moll. It is famous above all as the place where Emperor Alexander I died in 1825.
The Alferaki Palace in Taganrog was built in 1848 for the wealthy N. D. Alferaki to a design by Andrei Stackenschneider, professor of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. A showpiece of lush southern neo-Baroque with Corinthian columns and a marble staircase, it is now a museum.
The Taganrog Art Museum was founded in 1898, the city's 200th anniversary, on an idea of Anton Chekhov, who asked Ilya Repin to seek paintings from the Academy of Arts. Its more than 7,000 works include paintings by Savrasov, Bilibin and Fedders and studies by Arkhip Kuindzhi.
The Sharonov House in Taganrog is an Art Nouveau mansion built in 1912 for the grain trader E. I. Sharonov to a design by Fyodor Shekhtel, a friend of Chekhov. Since 1981 it has housed the Museum of City Planning and Daily Life, and its painted facade is unique in the Rostov region.
Petrovskaya Street is the central street of old Taganrog, running for 2,730 meters and named after Peter the Great, the founder of the city. Lined with old houses, it took back its historic name in 1998, and in the 1960s and 1970s its stretch nicknamed Broadway was the main place for evening walks.
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