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Shulepova, E. A. Chekhov’s Province and the Memory about the Famous Countryman.

Abstract: The article describes Taganrog as a place with a strong historical and cultural energy (in Russian and Global historical and cultural contexts) and Chekhov’s province as a special area of ideas and spirits at the crossing of opinions of pre-Chekhov and after-Chekhov Russia artists and philosophers. The author defines A. P. Chekhov’s consolidating role for Taganrog and his contribution to establishment and progressive dev elopement of cultural institutions there (theatre, library and museum) as well as the ‘feedback’ which the famous writer received when he was alive and which Taganrog citizens felt after the writer died.


Keywords:

cultural studies, memory of history, homeland culture, genius loci, place of development, province, historical city, cultural memorial, Taganrog, A. P.Chekhov


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