The history of Taganrog is closely intertwined with the life of the great Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Here, in a large family of a merchant of the third Guild Pavel Egorovich Chekhov was born the younger son, Anton. Anton has lived in Taganrog almost two decades after graduating from high school he moved behind his family to Moscow. But a childhood spent in his native Taganrog was left in his memory a lasting impression. Many of the events and characters in future stories and novels writer born out of his youthful impressions trading in his father's shop that was located at the intersection of the Alexander and Monastery (now - Petrovskaya street and Dzerzhinsky).

In the shop of colonial goods were always crowded with a lot of people due to its favorable position on the way to the train station and near the shopping ranks the Fairgrounds. Here people flocked from the surrounding streets, and the visitors certainly looked lively place. Particularly successful marketing move was a sign "Raspivochno and out", which did not leave anyone indifferent, passing by a potential buyer. But for Anton and brothers shop was a place of hard work childhood, which he described later in the stories "Vanka" and "sleepy".

The story "Man in a case" Anton Pavlovich wrote in may-June, 1898, for the first time the story was published in the same year in the seventh issue of the journal "Russian thought" conceived as part of the "Little trilogy". In a series of short stories "Little trilogy" includes three stories by Anton Chekhov: "the Gooseberry Bush", "love", "Man in a case". Unfortunately, the continuation of a series of stories did not follow at first because of the decline of creative activity of the writer, and later the work was delayed due to a severe exacerbation of the disease.

Sculptural composition "Man in a case" is made of bronze and is open on the eve of the 150th anniversary of A. P. Chekhov, in January 2010. In the contest conducted by the city administration on the eve of the anniversary of Chekhov, won the project known to the inhabitants of Taganrog sculptor David Beglova. The sculpture illustrates the well-known story writer Chekhov and depicts school teachers, became the prototype of the character of his story, – Belikov. A two-meter bronze sculpture, despite its solid weight - more than five hundred pounds, very plastic and expressive. It depicts a thin man in spectacles, with an umbrella who is aloof, leaning forward, as if resisting the pressure of the wind, whether your own destiny... the Monument does not have a pedestal, under a bent figure describes the modern paving of the street and opens the paving of the old road, returning to the merchant's Taganrog.

Sculpture installed in front of the building of the former gymnasium, where at one time studied Chekhov and where they come from a type of character. Today the building is a Literary Museum of A. P. Chekhov and sculpture, as it is impossible by the way, complements the Museum's exhibition.