Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, having spent three summers at the Lintvarevs' estate on Luka, described his impressions of his stay in Sumy with a short but capacious phrase “...Abbey and the Adriatic Sea are magnificent, but Psel and Luka are better! ". Now the city has a monument to Chekhov and the Chekhov house-museum on Luka. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin in his story “How I was an actor” also described his impressions of his stay in the city of Sumy “...Can you imagine a nasty southern county town? In the middle is a kind of huge pothole, where the local crests, waist-deep in mud, sell cucumbers and potatoes from carts.→