Ionych, The House with an Attic, The Man in a Shell, Van'ka, Three Years, Mask, and My Life. It is believed that Taganrog may have been the Lukomorye (fairy tale land) in which Alexander Pushkin's Ruslan and Lyudmila (1820) was set. The city also appeared in the novels of Ivan Vasilenko and Konstantin Paustovsky and in the poems of Nikolay Sherbina and Valentin Parnakh. The legend of "Elder Fyodor Kuzmich" is cited in the book Roza Mira by Russian mystic Daniil Andreyev. According to this legend, the Russian tsar Alexander I did not die in Taganrog, but instead left his crown and the status of monarch to continue his life as a traveling hermit. In foreign literature, the city was mentioned in the titles of Der Tote von Taganrog by and Taganrog by Reinhold Schneider. In 2004 Sabine Wichert published a collection of poems titled Taganrog. In Maria Kuncewiczowa's 1945 novel The Stranger (New York, LB Fischer publisher), the city of Taganrog plays an essential role as a place of nostalgic happiness for the uprooted Polish musician and matriarch, Rose. Notable people Numerous Russian and international aristocrats, politicians, artists, and scientists were born and/or have lived in Taganrog. Taganrog is the native city of Anton Chekhov, Faina Ranevskaya, Sophia Parnok, Alexandre Koyré, Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky, Witold Rowicki, Georgy Sedov (1877–1914), Russian Arctic explorer Dmitri Sinodi-Popov It is also associated with: Peter I of Russia, Alexander I of Russia, Cornelius Cruys, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Adolph Brodsky, Konstantin Paustovsky, Nestor Kukolnik, Achilles Alferaki, Ioannis Varvakis, Vasily Zolotarev, Sergei Bondarchuk, William Frederick Yeames Twin towns – sister cities Taganrog is twinned with: Antratsyt, Ukraine (2012) Badenweiler, Germany (2002) Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria (1963) Jining, China (2009) Khartsyzk, Ukraine (2009) Lüdenscheid, Germany (1991) Odessa, Ukraine See also Apostolopulo House House of Laskin House of Sinodi-Popov Bust of Lenin (Taganrog) Mariupol Cemetery Taganrog Palace of Youth Monument of Cathopoul House of Zolotaryov Memorable sign Barrier References Notes Sources External links Taganrogcity.com: official City of Taganrog website— Tagancity.ru: official website of Taganrog city— Taganrog.su: unofficial website of Taganrog— Taganrog State − Anton Chekhov Pedagogical Institute— Soviet topographic map 1:100,000 Russ-yug.ru: Weather forecasts for Taganrog Cities and towns in Rostov Oblast Port cities and towns of the Azov Sea Port cities and towns in Russia Populated coastal places in Russia Populated places established in 1698 1698 establishments in Russia 1698 establishments in Europe Don Host Oblast Greek