This article first appeared in our partner site, Independent Arabia
In the village of Luka lies a summer house which was once home to famed author Anton Chekhov. Close to the city of Sumy in north-eastern Ukraine, it was founded in the mid-seventeenth century by Cossacks. Chekhov and his family spent the summers of 1888 and 1889 in the six-room dwelling, which is set on a vast green estate belonging to the Lintvaryov family. They spent idyllic holidays swimming, fishing and rowing in the Psyol river. This was also the place where Chekhov wrote several of his short stories and his play, The Wood Demon.
