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The Russian term is often said to have no exact counterpart in English. [4] [5] Dachas are common in Russia, and are also widespread in most parts of the former Soviet Union and in some countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Surveys in 1993–1994 suggest about 25% of Russian families living in large cities had dachas. [6]
Potemkin's major tasks were to pacify and rebuild by bringing in Russian settlers. In 1787, as a new war was about to break out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, Catherine II, with her court and several ambassadors, made an unprecedented six-month trip to New Russia. One purpose of this trip was to impress Russia's allies prior to the war.
The house was later acquired by Prince Nicolas Petrovich Meshchersky in the mid-19th century, and the Meshchersky family continued to hold the property at the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917. His daughter Princess Ekaterina Nicolaievna Meshchersky wrote about her life at Petrovskoye-Alabino. The house became a hospital after the Revolution.
In 2011, the Novaya Gazeta wrote that it had obtained a contract for the palace signed by the presidential property manager in 2005, when Putin was the Russian president. [27] A website called the "Russian Wikileaks," RuLeaks.Ru, posted photographs of the estate, but could not confirm its ownership. [28]
House-Museum of Korney Chukovsky Country residence of Moscow Patriarchs. The settlement originated as the estate of Peredeltsy, owned by the Leontievs (maternal relatives of Peter the Great), then by Princes Dolgorukov and by the Samarins. After a railway passed through the village in the 19th century, it was renamed Peredelkino.
This House Has a Secret Zsa Zsa Gabor ... in “the poshest exodus since the fall of the czars sent the Russian nobles fleeing.” ... views over the Bel-Air Country Club and the city lights at ...
Dacha (Russian: да́ча) A country house or cottage in Russia. In archaic Russian, the word dacha means "something given". Initially, they were small estates in the country, given to loyal vassals by the tsar. Typical Soviet dachas were small land plots given by the state to city dwellers, who built summer houses on them.
According to Ukrainian journalists, the strike targeted the Maryino Estate, which may house an underground command post for Russian and North Korean troops. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Russian president Vladimir Putin confirmed an attempted strike on the command post of the Russian military's North group, [ 5 ] and Western officials said that the strike had ...