52. Thus a 1935 collection of “dacha” designs included only houses that were equipped
for year-round habitation: see G. Liudvig, ed., Rekomendovannye proekty: Al’bom dach (Moscow, 1935). Note also G.M. Sudeikin, Al’bom proektov zimnikh dach . . . (Moscow, 1928). Here the author acknowledges the difficulty of establishing
a precise classification of types of dwelling: “The designs do not give the buildings
names such as izba, worker’s house, dacha, and so on . . . because several names apply
to a single design, and this can cause confusion for the nonspecialist reader” (v).
A handbook of the following decade divides dachas into four categories: zimnii, poluzimnii, letnii, and palatochnyi (“winter,” “semiwinter,” “summer,” and “camping”): see G.M. Bobov, Arkhitektura i stroitel’stvo dach (Moscow, 1939).
53. E. Pasternak, Boris Pasternak: The Tragic Years, 1930–60 (London, 1990), 25–26.
54. T. Ivanova, Moi sovremenniki, kakimi ia ikh znala: Ocherki (Moscow, 1984), 30.
55. A. S. Livshits and К. V. Avilova, “Serebrianyi bor,” in Severo-zapadnyi okrug Moskvy (Moscow, 1997), 233–34. It was in Serebrianyi Bor that the sixteen-year-old Anna
Larina was courted by Nikolai Bukharin in 1930: see Larina, This I Cannot Forget (London, 1993). Larina was the stepdaughter of Iurii Larin, a leading Bolshevik intellectual
close to Lenin’s inner circle.
56. See the inventory in TsGAMO, f. 182, op. 1, d. 8, ll. 238–42.
57. Details of correspondence with the Communal Bank and Sovnarkom are drawn from RGASPI,
f. 124, op. 3, d. 368.
58. E. Bonner, Dochki-materi (Moscow, 1994), 50–54.
59. Ibid., 60–63, 80–81. Memoir material suggests that Bonner’s experiences were quite
typical of the Old Bolshevik milieu. Nina Kosterina (b. 1921), daughter of two members
of a Civil War partisan unit, spent much of her childhood in government institutions
and Young Pioneer camps; in the summer of 1937 she was farmed out to relatives in
a village near Tuchkovo, on the Moscow River. See The Diary of Nina Kosterina, trans. M. Ginsburg (London, 1972). The diary was first published, to great acclaim,
in Novyi mir in December 1962. Kosterina was killed in action in December 1941. The most famous
absent parents of the 1920s were Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Allilueva, who would commonly
spend the summer in Sochi while their children lived at their dacha, mostly in Zubalovo,
an estate formerly owned by prominent industrialists (the Zubalovs) that was turned
into an enclave for the Party elite in 1919. See S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu (London, 1967).
60. “Ugroza dachnomu sezonu,” VM, 8 Feb. 1927, 2.
61. “Tseny na dachi upali,” VM, 14 May 1927, 2.
62. LOGAV, f. R-3736, op. 1, d. 16, ll. 67–68.
63. See, e.g., the cartoon “Dachi i protektsionizm” (VM, 20 May 1927, 2), which has as its caption the following dialogue: Peasant: “Do you
need a big place?” Fat dachnik in checked jacket: “No, not that big, just for the
general section of our organization: my mother-in-law, my wife, and the kids.”
64. Illiustrirovannyi putevoditel’ po okrestnostiam Moskvy (Moscow, 1926), 57. This example could be supplemented by innumerable newspaper reports
of predatory dacha landlords and nouveau riche tenants.
65. S. Tret’iakov, “LEF i NEP,” LEF, no. 2 (1923), 72, quoted in E. Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (Princeton, 1997), 11.
66. I. Babel’, “V dome otdykha,” in Zabytyi Babel’ (Ann Arbor, 1979), 130.
67. Details in this paragraph are from LOGAV, f. R-2907 (Leningradskii okruzhnoi otdel
mestnogo khoziaistva), op. 1, d. 167.
68. See, e.g., TsGAMO, f. 182, op. 1, d. 8, ll. 252–53.
69. Portugalov and Dlugach, Dachi, 173–74.
70. TsGAMO, f. 182, op. 1, d. 5a, ll. 66, 76–79; d. 20, l. 90. The locations named were
Malakhovka, Kliaz’ma, Mamontovka, Tarasovka, Tomilino, and Kraskovo.
71. For examples, see ibid., d. 8, l. 390, and d. 20, l. 8.
72. Ibid., d. 20, l. 135.
73. M. A., “Otdykh v Serebrianom boru,” VM, 7 June 1927, 2.
74. Note, e.g., the efforts of the OMKh of the Leningrad oblispolkom to boost the Sestroretsk
resort in 1930 (see TsGA SPb, f. 3199, op. 4, d. 14, ll. 381–83, 592–93, 632).
75. A. Ianvarskii, “Leto ne zhdet,” SP, 30 Mar. 1934, 4.
