Tchaikovsky House in Taganrog

The Tchaikovsky House in Taganrog is a historical mansion in the historical downtown Taganrog on Ulitsa Grecheskaya, 56. The mansion was built in early 1870s by the project of the architect Petrov. It was owned by the merchant Sarandino until mid-1890s.

The Music Department of the Central Municipal Public Library named after Anton Chekhov and the Concert Hall

Нотно-музыкальный отдел Центральной городской публичной библиотеки имени А.П.Чехова
The Tchaikovsky House after renovation in 2010
Country	Russia
Type	Public library
Established	January 2, 1967, in this building since 1975, the mansion built in the early 1870s
Location	Taganrog, Rostov Oblast
Branch of	Chekhov Library
Collection
Items collected	40 thousand
Access and use
Population served	Taganrog
Other information
Director	Mrs.Zinaida Boyko (Russian: Бойко Зинаида Анатольевна)
Website	www.library.taganrog.ru/musical.html
Map

From 1883 until 1894, the building was rented by the captain of the first rank Ippolit Tchaikovsky who served in Taganrog representing the Russian Society of navigation and trade. Pyotr Tchaikovsky came to Taganrog and stayed at this house three times: in 1886, 1888 and in 1890.

The building was mentioned in one of Anton Chekhov's letters to his cousin Georgy Chekhov in 1895:

If I were rich, I would certainly buy the house where Ippolit Tchaikovsky used to live.

The mansion was damaged during the 1927 Crimean earthquakes and as consequence, the left wing was demolished.[1]

In 1975 the music department of the Chekhov Library and the concert hall moved into the building. A memorial room, where Pyotr Tchaikovsky stayed was transformed into a small museum dedicated to Tchaikovsky family and their relations with Anton Chekhov. The museum was inaugurated on May 1, 1976.

In 2009-2010 started a major renovation of the building, which was aimed at reconstruction of the original design the way it was in late 19th century, thus removing the weather vane which was placed around 1976/1977 and which was too heavy for the old building.

Photos

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  Tchaikovsky House, view from Grecheskaya Street
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  Tchaikovsky House in Taganrog in 2008
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  Tchaikovsky House in 2008 (view on the right wing)
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  Weather vane on top of Tchaikovsky House, 2006 (was on top of the building since 1976/1977 until late 2009)
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  The memorial plaque on the Tchaikovsky House in 2006. The inscription reads: "The memorial house of Pyotr Tchaikovsky open on May 1, 1976. Responsible for the works: director of the "Krasny Gidropress" factory V.Yanchenko.
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  Memorial plaques on Tchaikovsky House
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  Tchaikovsky House in winter of 2012.

See also

The Tchaikovsky mansion stands just a few steps away from Old Stone Steps and the old sundial.

External links and references

1. Чеховские места в Таганроге. Путеводитель. Таганрог, 2004

• А.А.Овчинникова "Дом Чайковских" в "Вехи Таганрога. Историко-литературный альманах" №41-42, стр. 51-53