1. STILL photograph portrait of Chekhov

2. ws Chekhov's house

3. mcu speaker at microphone

4. mcu audience, schoolgirls in foreground

5. ms audience

6. ms people in the house, looking at exhibits

7. vs a tour round the house, dining room, sitting room, study

8. ms woman showing children Chekhov's desk

9. various closeups Chekhov's desk, correspondence, photograph of Count Leo Tolstoy

10. ms outbuilding where Chekhov wrote 'The Seagull'

11. mcu sign on wall saying that Chekhov wrote 'The Seagull' there

12. ws house

Film: Pos - Sound: Opt SOF - B&W - NYFilm: No - LN Number: No - Available in HD

In 1892, the famous 19th / 20th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov bought the small country estate of Melikhovo, about forty miles south of Moscow, where he lived until 1899 with his family. Scenes of an exhibition the house, now a museum, and views of the outbuilding where he wrote 'The Seagull.' (Russian commentary and library music)