Maria Chekhova

Maria Pavlovna Chekhova was the sister of playwright Anton Chekhov, a teacher, artist, founder of the Chekhov Memorial House museum in Yalta, and a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

Maria Pavlovna Chekhova was born on August 31, 1863 in the city of Taganrog. She entered the Mariinskaya Girls Gymnasium in 1872. After the familys bankruptcy in 1876, she moved with the family to Moscow where she graduated from the Filaretovski Eparkhial School for Women in 1884. From 1886 to 1904 she read lectures on history and geography in Rzhevskayas private gymnasium for girls. In the 1890s she studied art at Stroganovka. In 1903 she was the recipient of a gold medal on the Saint Stanislaus ribbon for assiduity in education.

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