| They flee the dacha when the father is shot by Mikhail in a drunken misunderstanding. |
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| He was in relaxed mood when they met at his dacha, a walled complex in a birch forest 25 miles west of Moscow. |
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| Rich or poor, every Russian owns, or wants to own, a dacha, or cottage, usually in the woods, in which he or she can get away from it all. |
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| The protestors have laid siege to his dacha and to the presidential palace in the city. |
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| He had a dacha in the writer's colony Peredelkino, a driver for his car, and a maid. |
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| Vladimir smiled, and then he and the rest of our group headed up the walk towards the dacha. |
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| But for now at least, it does not look like many of Russia's elite will forgo a weekend at the dacha for a camping trip. |
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| The scene of Yuri writing his poems in an ice-encrusted dacha with wolves and winds howling outside seems to sum up this land. |
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| At the family's summer dacha at Sestroretsk she strayed deep into the forest. |
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| Call it a chalet, casa, dacha, haus or what you will, the Nomadeck is sure to find a good many takers! |
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| Mr Khrennikov had a huge budget which was spent on building special apartments and dacha compounds for composers. |
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| Kennan put her up in his version of a Russian dacha in a town in Pennsylvania called, of all things, East Berlin. |
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| One of the few Russian words to have entered the vocabulary of other languages, dacha originally meant a parcel of land given by the tsar to his aristocratic servitors. |
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| One evening after his return from New York, Saakashvili and I sat by the Black Sea, at a government dacha in Adjara. |
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| She had brought to the dacha a typewriter and five crates of books on behavioral psychology. |
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| Then he went with his family to his Crimean dacha to take a short holiday. |
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| Meanwhile, for those who do not have recourse to a dacha in the relatively cooler sylvan pockets of the Moscow region, options for cooling off may seem few and far between. |
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| It was near where the NKVD officers had their country homes, near my own dacha, near the village of Mednoe, about 20 miles from Kalinin. |
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| But when he was finally able to creep back into the dacha and found Petra cowering on his boyhood bed, mewling with fear of the police, he was too enraged at his humiliation to care about her pleasure. |
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| As the afternoon wore on, she chatted about her drunken son-in-law, her days as a state cartographer, her small dacha, all the time her body straightening as she talked, unloosened by stories. |
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| His dacha outside Moscow was notable not for pet wolves or other fashionable extravagances, but for his valiant attempts to create a weedless, stripy English lawn in a hostile climate. |
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| Directed by Tamás Ascher, this version sets the drama in a mid-20th-century dacha and transforms the ennui of endless days into something combustible. |
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| This code provides clear rights for private parties to own urban and industrial land and reconfirms private rights to small plots, notably dacha and household plots. |
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| The Kastorskys bought a dacha not far from the sea, on the Chenryavsky Mount, which was smothered with apricot and peach orchards, behind which yawns a gorge of vertiginous depth with a seething river at the bottom. |
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| It is used to describe the size of suburban dacha or allotment garden plots or small city parks where the hectare would be too large. |
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| Libkin found old beds to put in the wild-looking garden around Dacha, so couples in love could relax on them after the meal. |
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