#2154745 in eBooks 2003-11-25 2014-06-02File Name: B00KS78K52
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Dacha: The Great Retreat (in all sizes).By Dag StombergDacha is derived from the verb "to give."Peter the Great gave to a select few the dacha experience. Downthrough the past three centuries the concept has had a many splendidmetamorphosis. Often; the dacha was hidden in a coppice of trees;not remote; but secluded.A radical break with urban routine; and therefore an opportunity toexperience a different pattern of life. There are no direct equivalents; particularly for styles of buildings. SUMMERFOLK meant; summertime in the country for people from big cities lastingapproximately two months.Stephen Lovell is a social and cultural historian and shows us with his Between City and Court; the Late Imperial Dacha Boom; the Dacha as a Cultural Space (1860-1917). the making of the Soviet Dacha (1917-1941); Exurban Life (1941-1986) and the Dacha Settlements in contemporary Russia.This is a first book of its kind. It truly presents a unique Russianway of life!Dag Stomberg;St. Andrews; Scotland
