https://chekhov-levitan.com/2020/09/28/book-price-reduced/2025-08-28T18:05:34+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2025/01/07/the-sirens-of-the-hotel-louvre/2025-05-01T17:30:08+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2020/12/09/ovcharenko-gallery-has-purchased-the-levitan-house-studio-in-moscow/2020-12-10T00:28:14+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/06/18/levitans-studio/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/studio-windows.jpgStudio Windowshttps://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/levitans-home-and-studio.jpgLevitan's home and studio2020-12-09T22:59:54+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2020/03/09/sweet-lika-audio-drama/2020-03-09T18:05:44+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/about-the-book/2019-08-12T23:13:35+00:00weekly0.6https://chekhov-levitan.com/2018/11/07/contribution-to-chekhovs-letters/2018-11-07T23:05:38+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2018/03/23/the-dark-side-of-humanity/2018-03-24T16:47:27+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2017/05/12/sweet-lika/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/chekhov_and_mizinova.jpgChekhov_and_MizinovaLika Mizinova and Anton Chekhov2017-06-14T12:15:29+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/12/28/five-stolen-levitan-paintings-recovered/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/railway-stop.jpgrailway-stop"Railway Stop" (1885), one of five stolen Levitan paintings that have been recovered.2016-12-28T23:01:04+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/about-the-book/slavic-east-european-journal/2016-11-18T17:30:19+00:00weekly0.6https://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/10/18/slavic-east-european-journal-summer-2016/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cover_seej.pngcover_seej2016-10-19T01:01:59+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/10/09/slavonic-east-european-review-october-2016/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/seer.pngseer2016-10-09T22:05:00+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/about-the-book/slavonic-east-european-review/2016-10-09T21:51:13+00:00weekly0.6https://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/03/22/in-the-stacks/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/books-1.jpgBooks-12016-09-23T15:32:51+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/09/22/the-russian-review-october-2016/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the-russian-review.jpgthe-russian-review2016-09-22T22:33:53+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/about-the-book/the-russian-review/2016-09-22T22:21:42+00:00weekly0.6https://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/08/10/photo-portrait-of-levitan/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kuvshinnikovs1-e1470867247475.jpgKuvshinnikovshttps://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/levitanphoto41.jpgLevitanPhoto4https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/levitanphoto4.jpgLevitanPhoto42016-08-10T22:28:33+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/06/18/alison-andersons-the-summer-guest/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/thesummerguest.jpgTheSummerGuesthttps://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/evening-bells.jpgEvening Bells"Evening Bells" (1892)2016-06-18T21:47:52+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/06/02/columns-university-of-washington-alumni-magazine-june-2016/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/alumni-article.jpgAlumni article2016-06-03T02:17:56+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/about/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/at-chekhovs-grave.jpgAt Chekhov's GraveAt Chekhov's grave in Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. July 2013https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/portrait-on-sheeps-head.jpgSerge Gregory2023-02-19T08:20:53+00:00weekly0.6https://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/01/28/reading-at-the-university-of-washington-bookstore/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/university-bookstore-2.jpgUniversity Bookstore 2https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/university-bookstore-1.jpgUniversity Bookstore 12016-04-18T16:13:58+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2015/11/25/buy-the-book/2016-04-18T16:11:43+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2016/04/13/on-sale-at-londons-national-portrait-gallery-bookshop/2016-04-14T15:58:38+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/10/25/averil-kings-isaak-levitan-lyrical-landscape/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/lyrical-landscape.jpgLyrical LandscapeAveril King is the only writer to have produced a book in English on Levitan. Her "Lyrical Landscape" is readily available. Harder to find are several out-of-print and expensive English translations of monographs on Levitan by the respected Soviet-era art critic Alexei Fyodorov-Davydov.2015-05-20T15:51:48+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/12/30/itinerant-painters-group-portrait-1899/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/peredvizhniki-petersburg-march-6-1899.jpgPeredvizhniki-Petersburg-March-6-18992016-08-28T16:57:57+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2014/04/22/alexander-lensky-and-chekhovs-the-grasshopper/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kramskoy-portrait-of-alexander-lensky-1883.jpgAlexander LenskyIvan Kramskoy's portrait of Alexander Lensky as Petruchio in "The Taming of the Shrew" (1883). Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.2014-04-23T04:26:29+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2014/02/19/status-report-2/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/levitan-isaak.jpgIsaac-LevitanIsaac Levitan (1897)2014-04-14T22:17:21+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/07/04/levitan-meets-tolstoy/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/archives-of-the-tretyakov-gallery.jpgArchives of the Tretyakov GalleryThe archives of the Tretyakov Gallery are just down Lavrushinsky Lane from the museum itself.2014-03-07T00:31:25+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2014/01/15/levitans-last-visit-to-yalta/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/chehov_white_dacha_study.jpgChekhov's Yalta StudyChekhov standing in his study in Yalta. Levitan's sketch is visible on the left above the fireplace.https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/haystacks-on-a-moonlit-night.jpgHaystacks on a Moonlit NightLevitan sketched "Haystacks on a Moonlit Night" on cardboard in half an hour and placed it in the niche in Chekhov's fireplace in Yalta.2017-03-17T04:29:05+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/12/19/levitan-professor-of-art/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/the-last-rays-of-the-sun-1899.jpgthe-last-rays-of-the-sun-1899"The Last Rays of the Sun" (1899). As I stood in the Tretyakov Gallery looking at this painting, with its flat planes of muted colors moving towards abstraction, I found myself wondering what direction Levitan's art would have taken had he lived another 20 years. He died in 1900 at the age of 39.2014-02-15T02:33:03+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/11/27/sergei-morozovs-2000-rubles/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/uspenskoe.jpgUspenskoeMorozov's castle at Uspenskoe outside of Moscow.https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sergei-morozov.jpgSergei MorozovSergei T. Morozov2013-12-06T16:25:02+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/11/18/maupassants-fort-comme-la-mort/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/maupassant.jpgMaupassantGuy de Maupassant2013-11-18T19:15:56+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/11/06/levitan-and-diaghilev/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sergei-diaghilev.jpgSergei DiaghilevSergei Diaghilev2013-11-06T18:14:55+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/10/05/sophia-kuvshinnikovas-diary/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/kuvshinnikova-photo.jpgSophia KuvshinnikovaSophia Kuvshinnikova in an exotic outfit of her own creation.2013-10-06T00:36:38+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/09/24/status-report/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/chekhov-portrait.jpgChekhov portraitAnton Chekhovhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/levitanphoto2.jpgLevitanPhoto2Isaac Levitan2013-09-25T01:32:33+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/08/29/origins-of-the-seagull/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/lika-maria-chekhov.jpgLika Mizinova-Maria Chekhova-Anton ChekhovLeft to right: Lika Mizinova, Maria Chekhova and Anton Chekhov2014-07-23T17:14:41+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/07/21/melikhovo/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/outbuilding-at-melikhovo.jpgOutbuilding at MelikhovoThe outbuilding at Melikhovo where Chekhov wrote "The Seagull."https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/melikhovo.jpgMelikhovoChekhov's house at Melikhovo.https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/levitan-photo-at-melikhovo.jpgLevitan photo at MelikhovoLevitan took this photograph at Melikhovo of Chekhov and his brother Mikhail sitting in a wheelbarrow pushed by Vladimir Gilyarovsky. (Easter 1892)https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/study-at-melikhovo.jpgStudy at MelikhovoChekhov's study at Melikhovo. Prominently displayed on the wall is Levitan's painting of the Istra River at Babkino, which the artist gave to Chekhov.2013-08-12T21:31:56+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/08/07/pavel-chekhovs-diary/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tatiana-shchepkina-kupernik.jpgTatiana Shchepkina-KupernikThe irrepressible Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik was instrumental in both initiating and ending the quarrel between Chekhov and Levitan.https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/pavel-chekhov.jpgPavel ChekhovChekhov's father, Pavel Egorovich, was born a serf.2013-08-08T01:25:00+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/07/31/chekhovs-restaurants/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/slavyansky-bazaar.jpgSlavyansky BazaarThe Slavyansky Bazaar Restaurant was destroyed in a fire in the 1990s. The building has been restored and turned into commercial space as part of the transformation of Nikolskaya Street into an upscale pedestrian promenade.https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hermitage-restaurant.jpgHermitage RestaurantAt the end of the 19th century this building housed both the fashionable Hermitage Restaurant and a small theater.2013-08-07T21:46:56+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/07/07/abramtsevo/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/studio-at-abramtsevo.jpgStudio at AbramtsevoAbramtsevo studiohttps://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/abramtsevo-manor-house.jpgAbramtsevo Manor HouseThe manor house at Abramtsevo is being restored.2013-07-07T13:56:02+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/06/27/korshs-private-theatre/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/closeup-of-korshs-theatre.jpgCloseup of Korsh's Theatrehttps://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/korshs-theatre-2.jpgKorsh's TheatreThe red neo-Russian style Korsh Theatre on Petrovsky Lane.2013-07-03T00:28:09+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/06/25/along-malaya-dmitrovka-street/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/malaya-dmitrovka-ulitsa-29.jpgMalaya Dmitrovka Ulitsa 29. Chekhov moved into an annex behind this building.https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/malaya-dmitrovka-ulitsa-12.jpgMalaya Dmitrovka Ulitsa No. 12. Chekhov lived in Apartment 10.https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/malaya-dmitrovka-ulitsa-11.jpgMalaya Dmitrovka Ulitsa 11https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/church-of-the-virgin-on-malaya-dmitrovka.jpgChurch of the Natiity of the Virgin in Putinkihttps://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/malaya-dmitrovka-ulitsa-1.jpgMalaya Dmitrovka Ulitsa 1, editorial offices of "Zritel'"2013-06-26T11:37:28+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/06/21/levitan-at-the-tretyakov-gallery/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tretyakov2-e1371883458702.jpgTretyakov2https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tretyakov1-e1371883396133.jpgTretyakov12022-10-01T21:37:58+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/06/17/the-lenin-library/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/reading-room-1.jpgReading Room #1https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/lenin-library-staircase.jpgLenin Library Staircase2013-06-17T08:38:30+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/06/14/moscow-june-15-2013/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/viewer.pngviewerhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/viewer-5.pngviewer (5)https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/viewer-3.pngviewer (3)https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/viewer-1.pngviewer (1)2013-06-15T05:54:45+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/06/14/blog-access-blocked-in-russia/2013-06-15T03:12:25+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/06/07/state-archive-of-literature-art/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/levitans-studio.jpgLevitan's studioLevitan's studio in Moscow adjacent to the home of his patron Sergei Morozov. He lived and worked here for 11 years.2013-06-07T17:31:31+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/05/29/levitans-women/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/elena-andreevna-teleshova-karzinkina.jpgElena Andreevna Teleshova (Karzinkina)Elena Karzinkina2013-05-30T18:36:12+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/05/24/levitan-proposes/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/maria-chekhova.jpgMaria ChekhovaMaria Chekhova2021-02-18T23:18:11+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/05/21/the-ridiculous-jew/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/babkino.jpgBabkino EstateThe main house on the Babkino estate2013-05-21T17:16:56+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/05/16/levitan-and-russian-impressionism/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/quiet-abode.jpgQuiet AbodeLevitan's "Quiet Abode" (1890)2013-05-16T20:23:45+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/05/13/was-chekhov-an-impressionist/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/levitan-lake.jpgThe Lake (Russia)"The Lake. Russia" (1900), Levitan's last great work.2013-05-14T13:10:39+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/05/06/levitans-lost-letters/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/levitan-letter.jpgLevitan LetterThe first page of a letter that Levitan wrote to the artist Elena Karzinkina in July 1896.2014-02-07T17:59:35+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/05/02/crocodile-%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%be%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b8%d0%bb/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/crocodile-satirical-magazine.jpgCrocodile Satirical Magazine"Crocodile," the Soviet era satirical magazine, was brought back to life in 2005.2013-06-08T17:38:32+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/04/29/what-attracted-chekhov-to-levitan/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/konstantin-korovin.jpgKonstantin KorovinPortrait of Konstantin Korovin by Valentin Serov (1891)2013-04-30T22:30:37+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/04/18/when-did-they-first-meet/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/moscow_school_of_painting_sculpture_and_architecture.jpgMoscow School of PaintingMoscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where Levitan and Nikolai Chekhov were fellow students.https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/levitan_sokolniki_autumn_1879.jpgAutumn Day Sokolniki"Autumn Day. Sokolniki" (1879). Nikolai Chekhov added the woman to Levitan's painting.2013-04-18T23:49:42+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/04/07/archive-access/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rgali.jpgRGALIRGALI manuscript reading room2013-04-07T17:22:27+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/04/01/why-antosha-and-levitasha/2013-04-01T20:56:21+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/03/29/chekhov-uncensored/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/chekhov-shchepkina-kupernik-yavorskaya.jpgChekhov-Shchepkina-Kupernik-YavorskayaChekhov with admirers Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik and Lidia Yavorskaya. He called the photo "The Temptations of St. Anthony."2022-05-05T21:59:17+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/03/26/levitans-mother/https://chekhov-levitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/levitan-self-portrait-1880.jpgLevitan self-portrait 1880Levitan self-portrait at age 20.2013-03-26T22:58:11+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.com/2013/03/22/famous-friends/2013-03-23T01:31:56+00:00monthlyhttps://chekhov-levitan.comdaily1.02025-08-28T18:05:34+00:00