[PDF.25wi] Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

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 | #1577866 in Books |  Stephen Lovell |  2003-02-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.86 x.90 x6.84l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 280 pages

 | Summerfolk A History of the Dacha 1710 2000

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Dacha: The Great Retreat (in all sizes).|By Dag Stomberg|Dacha is derived from the verb "to give."

Peter the Great gave to a select few the dacha experience. Down
through the past three centuries the concept has had a many splendid
metamorphosis. Often, the dacha was hidden in a coppice of trees,
not remote, but secluded.

A radical break wi| ||"Stephen Lovell's choice of the dacha as a prism through which to look at the changes in Russian society is inspired. . . . It shows Lovell to be a first rate social as well as cultural historian."―London of Books

|"Lovell does a splen

The dacha is a sometimes beloved, sometimes scorned Russian dwelling. Alexander Pushkin summered in one; Joseph Stalin lived in one for the last twenty years of his life; and contemporary Russian families still escape the city to spend time in them. Stephen Lovell's generously illustrated book is the first social and cultural history of the dacha. Lovell traces the dwelling's origins as a villa for the court elite in the early eighteenth century through its nineteenth...

You easily download any file type for your device.Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000   |  Stephen Lovell. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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