he died in one thousand nine hundred in fair dosia crimea. in eight hundred ninety eight the playwright anton chekhov had the white villa built in the mountains above the altar. chekhov suffered from tuberculosis and hope to find relief from his illness there. check of an actors from the moscow art theater at a reading of his play the siegel. leo tolstoy the patron saint of russian literature. the altar and the white fellow became a place to run devil for russian writers and intellectuals in crimea. in the winter of one thousand know one chekhov wrote to his future bride in moscow i'm absolutely fine apart from a petty little matter my health. in july nine hundred four check of died on a visit to the german spa town of biden viler. he was forty four years old. peace was to last for another ten years then war broke out and everything changed. develop a course coming to an end sorry russia would soon be consigned to the annals of history. during the first world war stately homes in crimea were converted to military hospitals. then came the octo