A dacha is a country house or cottage in Russia. It is a place where people go to relax, enjoy nature, and escape the city for a while. Full definition
Shashlyk is also a favorite food for picnics and for outings at dachas, the country cottages where many urban Russians escape the stresses of daily life. (fieryfoodscentral.com)
The peasants, who had a shrewder idea of how Mother Russia functioned, thought it more likely that this evidence of progress, if that was the correct name for it, was somehow related to the purchase, several months earlier, of the late and little lamented Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria's sprawling wooden dacha by a man identified only as the Oligarkh. (bookbrowse.com)
I've been lunkirg around your blog for a while and never commented, but your mention of plums at the Russian dacha made commenting absolutely necessary! (golubkakitchen.com)