Summerfolk

118. Examples include G. Popov, “Dacha” (1965), in his Gusi-lebedi: Rasskazy (Minsk, 1968), and A. Chernousov, “Vtoroi dom,” Nash sovremennik, no. 1 (1983), 3–97.

119. On the counterposing of dachniki and permanent residents, see V. Lukashevich, “Zimniaia dacha” (1964), in his Doroga cherez zarosli: Povesti i rasskazy (Moscow, 1972); Chernousov, “Vtoroi dom”; N. Kozhevnikova, “Dacha: Povest’,” Oktiabr’, no. 12 (1983); G. Shergova, “Zakolochennye dachi,” Novyi mir, no. 3 (1978), 73–133; Trifonov, “Starik”; V. Nasushchenko, “Dachnik Iakovlev,” in his Belyi svet: Rasskazy (Leningrad, 1988). Chernousov, Kozhevnikova, and Trifonov wind up their stories by announcing the imminent demolition of the dacha settlement in question.

120. O. Pavlovskii, “Srochno prodaetsia dacha,” in his Srochno prodaetsia dacha: Povesti (Kaliningrad, 1989), 7.

121. Ibid., 25.

122. Ibid., 63.

123. Chernousov, “Vtoroi dom,” 90.

124. Two contrasting treatments of the theme are I. Davydov, “Dacha v Malakhovke,” in his Devushka moego druga (Saratov, 1965), where the urge for dacha property is seen as wholly destructive and debasing, and Lukashevich, “Zimniaia dacha,” where it is treated with considerably more sympathy.

125. R. Ibragimbekov, “Dacha,” in his Dacha: Rasskazy (Moscow, 1988).

126. V. Grechnev, “Dacha,” in his Sueta suet (Moscow, 1994).

127. These quotations are taken from the St. Petersburg student newspaper Gaudeamus, 9 May 1999.

128. Nancy Ries, Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika (Ithaca, N.Y., 1997), 133.

129. William Butler accords special prominence to the dacha in the discussion of personal ownership in his Soviet Law, 2d ed. (London, 1988), 185.

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Post-Soviet Suburbanization?

Dacha Settlements in Contemporary Russia

In the history of the modern dacha and its social catchment area there have been several important shifts: from the court society of the Peterhof Road to a more widely dispersed and more city-oriented aristocratic elite; from this aristocratic elite to the larger constituency of urban middling people; the emergence of a mass dacha market in the later nineteenth century; the sudden and drastic reclassification and reallocation of the dacha stock under the Soviets; the convergence of the dacha-plot dacha and the garden-plot dacha in the postwar era.