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A dacha near Moscow, 1917 An old dacha near Saint Petersburg. The first dachas in Russia began to appear during the 17th century, initially referring to small estates in the country that were given to loyal vassals by the tsar. [3]
Villa/Vila (or its cognates) is part of many Spanish and Portuguese placenames, like Vila Real and Villadiego: a villa/vila is a town with a charter (fuero or foral) of lesser importance than a ciudad/cidade ("city"). When it is associated with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than a ...
Villa for Sale (Hungarian: Ez a villa eladó) is a 1935 Hungarian comedy film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Ernő Verebes, Ida Turay and Gyula Kabos. After he goes away on holiday , a wealthy man's servant accidentally puts his villa up for sale.
Villa Lewaro, also known as the Madam C.J. Walker estate [3], is a 34-room 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) [4] [5] mansion located at Fargo Lane and North Broadway in Irvington, New York, 30 miles north of New York City. Entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker commissioned architect Vertner Tandy to build Villa Lewaro
A sex offender who police said tried to "financially and emotionally manipulate" his victims has been jailed for 25 years. Stephen Gallagher, of Normandy Avenue in Colchester, was found guilty by ...
The median existing-home sale price in September was $404,500, according to the National Association of REALTORS. And if you want to avoid private mortgage insurance, a costly premium that ...
A Connecticut man who allegedly killed a woman and her infant son in November targeted the woman because she owed him $400 for renting a vehicle of his, arrest reports said on Monday.
The Triumph of Galatea is a fresco completed around 1512 by the Italian painter Raphael for the Villa Farnesina in Rome. [1] The Farnesina was built for the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi, one of the richest men of that age. The Farnese family later acquired and renamed the villa, smaller than the more ostentatious palazzo at the other side of ...