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The Peter I Monument, also known as the Peter the Great Monument, is a monument to Peter I of Russia located in Taganrog, Russia. It is a bronze statue created by the sculptor Mark Antokolsky and first installed in 1903.
The Taganrog Drama Theater named after Anton Chekhov and decorated with Order of Honor is a traditional Russian drama theater based in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast.
The Chekhov Gymnasium in Taganrog on Ulitsa Oktyabrskaya 9 is the oldest gymnasium in the South of Russia. Playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov spent 11 years in the school, which was later named after him and transformed into a literary museum. Visitors can see Anton's desk and his classroom, the assembly hall and even the punishment cell which he sometimes visited.
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Vladimir Grigoryevich Zakharov, was a Soviet and Russian composer and choir conductor. He was born near Donetsk in the present-day Ukraine. From 1912 to 1921 he lived in the city of Taganrog, where he studied at the Boys Gymnasium and attended music classes by Valerian Molla at the Taganrog School for Music. He graduated from the Rostov Conservatory in 1927. His long-term connection with the Pyatnitsky Choir gave him many chances composing choral music. Most of his songs are in peasant way. Even sometime later, no one can tell whether one of his famous song was a composition or an arrangement of a folk piece.
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Alekseevskaya Women's Gymnasium was a women's gymnasium that existed in Taganrog, Russian Empire from 1911 to 1917.
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- Таганрог. Энциклопедия, Таганрог, издательство АНТОН, 2008
