MOSCOW (REUTERS).- The house where Russia’s universally acclaimed playwright Anton Chekhov penned some of his greatest work will be restored by the end of this year after decades of neglect, said the British charity behind its repair. Chekhov moved to the multi-floored White Dacha on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast in Yalta in 1898 to treat tuberculosis, from which he suffered for most of his adult life before it killed him in 1904. Turned into a museum in 1921, the White Dacha crumbled after a lack of funds and was forced into partial closure from 2007, the London-based Anton Chekhov Foundation said in a statement last week. Surrounded by cypress and fruit trees, Chekhov wrote “The Cherry Orchard” and “Three Sisters” in the house, and the nearby coast set the scene for his much-loved “Lady with the Dog.” Set up by British Chekhov biographer and translator Rosamund Bartlett two years ago, the charity raised $392,900 to “reverse the plight