Dacha: The Soviet Country Cottage

An astonishing photographic record of a form of wooden architecture rapidly vanishing from the post-Soviet landscape

A dacha is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for a rural idyll. Widespread in the countries of the former USSR, this important cultural and architectural form has been largely ignored academically. In Dacha, Fyodor Savintsev documents this particularly Russian phenomenon. His photographs constitute a unique record of a rap...