- deepened, and
Levitan began spending time with the
Chekhov family near
Babkino where the
Chekhovs had a house.
During his
first summer there he painted...
-
journalist Mikhail Menshikov, children's
writer (and the
owner of the
Babkino estate)
Maria Kiselyova and Ivan Gorbunov-Posadov. "I've read your Black...
- Chekhov's
brother Mikhail wrote in his 1923 memoirs: "There was, [not far from
Babkino], by the
Daragan Forest, a
lonely Polevshcinskaya church which had always...
- 1899–1901.
According to
Alexander Lazarev-Gruzinsky, the
story was
written in
Babkino in the
course of one day.
Mikhail Chekhov was sure it was the author's...
- soon
after making a
visit to Taganrog, in May 1887, in the
village of
Babkino (then the
estate of
count Alexey S. Kiselyov)
where he
spent three summers...
- was
based upon the author's
experience during his stay in the
village of
Babkino. In the 27 June 1884
letter from
Voskresensk to
Nikolai Leykin, Chekhov...
-
curious real life incident. "I
remember clearly how the
carpenters in
Babkino,
working on a bathing-shed,
struck upon an
eelpout in the pond," he wrote...
