Old dachas of St. Petersburg. Houses and people – Elena Travina – Eksmo – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-04-240638-6
Old dachas of St. Petersburg. Houses and people
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Old dachas of St. Petersburg. Houses and people
29.99 €
"Dacha" is a word so familiar that it requires no definition. But then answer this question: what is it?
Yes, it's a sultry summer, not a village get-together with grandma. It's a wooden house in the suburbs with a small plot of land—not the kind where potatoes and carrots are planted, but where pine trees tower amid blueberry patches, somewhere near the picket fence there's a treasured mushroom spot, and a deck chair sits on the green lawn.
The first dachas were not intended for relaxation, but for deception... From the very first pages, you're immersed in the life of the Russian Empire, becoming Peter the Great's companion along the Peterhof Road. You enter modest Dutch houses and the luxurious palaces of his nobles. You witness how dachas pretended to be Europe, so that a foreign merchant in a carriage would believe that Russia wasn't a dense forest, but civilization. But what lies behind the word “dacha”?
Yes, it's a sultry summer, not a village get-together with grandma. It's a wooden house in the suburbs with a small plot of land—not the kind where potatoes and carrots are planted, but where pine trees tower amid blueberry patches, somewhere near the picket fence there's a treasured mushroom spot, and a deck chair sits on the green lawn.
The first dachas were not intended for relaxation, but for deception... From the very first pages, you're immersed in the life of the Russian Empire, becoming Peter the Great's companion along the Peterhof Road. You enter modest Dutch houses and the luxurious palaces of his nobles. You witness how dachas pretended to be Europe, so that a foreign merchant in a carriage would believe that Russia wasn't a dense forest, but civilization. But what lies behind the word “dacha”?
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