Alefaraki Palace

About

The moment the wooden door, one that the young novelist Chekhov might once have reached out and touched, swings open, the sound of an old wooden staircase striking the floor falls through, cutting across time. At its center unfolds a space that seems to have come alive from within Chekhov's stories, where old furniture and hand-carved lighting guide visitors into the past. The Alferaki Palace carries an atmosphere that seems to preserve intact the very landscape of Taganrog that Chekhov once depicted. Here, walls steeped in carving, windows through which fleeting light passes, and the gaze of strangers somehow fallen asleep within time all whisper together like an old letter. Beneath the scent of the Alferaki Palace and old lighting rather than fluorescent light, the history of Taganrog is conveyed.