Chekhov planted a variety of trees including mulberry, cherry, almond, peach, cypress, citrus, acacia and birch.

It is all white, pure, easy, beautifully asymmetrical, ... with a tower, and unexpected ledges, with a glass veranda below and an open terrace above, with scattered broad and narrow windows... ".

During the Nazi occupation, Maria Pavlovna refused to leave and put up pictures of German dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann.

The museum falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture of the Crimean Autonomous Republic and their budget is extremely small.

[7] Chekhov was a noted host and entertained Leo Tolstoy, Feodor Chaliapin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maxim Gorky at the Dacha.