The conference is being held these days in the Museum-Reserve of the great Russian writer in Melikhovo. This large-scale international event was organized to commemorate the upcoming 160th anniversary of Anton Chekhov’s birthday.
More than 70 scholars from Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Croatia, Israel, the USA, France, Spain, and Greece take part in the conference. The international meeting of researchers of Chekhov’s heritage will help answer questions what Chekhov’s texts and contexts of reading are now in the focus of the scientific world, what works of the writer are being staged by Russian and foreign theaters and art in general.
Lyudmila Yakusheva, Associate Professor of the Department of theory, history of culture and Ethnology at VSU took part in the conference. The VSU scholar presented a report on “the concept of “coldness” in Anton Chekhov’s plays and its stage embodiment”.
The event also includes the exhibition “Good museums are made up not for years, but … for centuries”. It presents history of two houses of the Chekhov estate – the main manor house and the wing in which the legendary “Seagull” was written. The exhibition will run until March 15.