Play time in Yalta Charlotte Cory watches the little dramas that make Chekhov's last home so special

The Sunday Telegraph London | July 11, 2004| | Copyright

`You went where?" Anastasia, the piano student I met in Kiev, was astonished. She had been so amused by my attempt to conduct a conversation about Stalin with a man selling old books in the market, when he could speak no English and I haven't a word of Russian, that she joined in as unofficial interpreter. When I explained over a coffee afterwards that I was whiling away the afternoon on my way home from Yalta, it was as if I had confessed to spending a week in Blackpool, wearing a kiss-me-quick hat. "Why ever did you go there?" she laughed.

My new acquaintance eventually seemed satisfied ...

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