Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, having spent three summers at the Lintvarevs' estate on Luka, described his impressions of his stay in Sumy with a short but capacious phrase “...Abbey and the Adriatic Sea are magnificent, but Psel and Luka are better! ". Now the city has a monument to Chekhov and the Chekhov house-museum on Luka.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin in his story “How I was an actor” also described his impressions of his stay in the city of Sumy “...Can you imagine a nasty southern county town? In the middle is a kind of huge pothole, where the local crests, waist-deep in mud, sell cucumbers and potatoes from carts. This is a bazaar. On one side is the cathedral and, of course, Cathedral Street, on the other - the city square, on the third - the stone city rows, in which the yellow plaster has peeled off, and pigeons are sitting on the roof and on the cornices; finally, the main street flows into the fourth side, with a branch of some bank, with a post office, a notary and a hairdresser Teodor ...
» And there is neither a monument nor a house-museum of Kuprin in the city of Sumy...
The monument to A. P. Chekhov was erected on the 110th anniversary of the writer's death. The authors of the sculpture are Vladimir Bykov and Alexey Shevchenko. The monument was made of quartzite, which is mined in the Glukhov region.
Young Anton Chekhov is sitting on a bench, there is a place nearby for those who want to sit next to the classic and take a traditional photo. There is also a huge stone with a tablet on which the most famous phrase of the writer is written in the city.
Location: extreme right entrance to the park of culture and recreation named after I. N. Kozhedub.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin in his story “How I was an actor” also described his impressions of his stay in the city of Sumy “...Can you imagine a nasty southern county town? In the middle is a kind of huge pothole, where the local crests, waist-deep in mud, sell cucumbers and potatoes from carts. This is a bazaar. On one side is the cathedral and, of course, Cathedral Street, on the other - the city square, on the third - the stone city rows, in which the yellow plaster has peeled off, and pigeons are sitting on the roof and on the cornices; finally, the main street flows into the fourth side, with a branch of some bank, with a post office, a notary and a hairdresser Teodor ...
» And there is neither a monument nor a house-museum of Kuprin in the city of Sumy...
The monument to A. P. Chekhov was erected on the 110th anniversary of the writer's death. The authors of the sculpture are Vladimir Bykov and Alexey Shevchenko. The monument was made of quartzite, which is mined in the Glukhov region.
Young Anton Chekhov is sitting on a bench, there is a place nearby for those who want to sit next to the classic and take a traditional photo. There is also a huge stone with a tablet on which the most famous phrase of the writer is written in the city.
Location: extreme right entrance to the park of culture and recreation named after I. N. Kozhedub.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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