Sentences with word «dacha»

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.

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.

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!

I've been lurking around your blog for a while and never commented, but your mention of plums at the Russian dacha made commenting absolutely necessary!

In it she tells how a man named Sukhanov sold his soul to become one of the cosseted few who enjoy all the comforts accorded to a member of the Soviet elite: a large, admirably outfitted apartment in the Arbat, a chauffeured limousine, a country dacha, his children educated in select schools, even the occasional trip abroad.

Rynn Berry: No, no I think it has reach a critical mass and it has become dachas to eat enormous quantities of animal flesh, the trendsetters the intellectuals are taking on a plant based diet.

Residents of Siberian cities get their food from three main sources: grocery stores (still not as modern as those in the West); city markets, farmers» markets, and street vendors; and their own dacha gardens where they grow fruits and vegetables on little plots of land surrounding the cities.

I felt I might have been transported to a well - appointed dacha deep in some northern pine forest.

Amba, the Udege name for Siberian tiger meaning Guardian of the Forest, is depicted sweeping through the pine trees and layered over an antique dacha birdcage.

Set twenty - odd years from now, it opens on Patient Number One - Vladimir Putin, largely forgotten in his presidential dacha, serviced by a small coterie of house staff, drifting in and out of his memories of the past.

Set twenty years in the future in the once - all - powerful oligarch's ninth decade, the story is a dark tale of Alzheimer's disease, where any decent humanity comes, not from a titan whose neural networks are collapsing, but rather from Sheremetev, a private nurse and the lone person caring for Vladimir P. while he's secreted in his palatial dacha outside Moscow.

Shashlyk is also a favorite food for picnics and weekend outings at dachas, the country cottages where many urban Russians escape the stresses of daily life.

The little wooden dachas and garden plots that supplemented the diet of city dwellers were being bulldozed in accordance with the latest Five Year Plan to allay the capital's dire housing shortage.

During the summers at our Russian dacha, meals were always accompanied by small, curiously shaped cucumbers that we picked from the garden that very day.

I guess having a tree at your dacha is the best thing!

We had a few dozen black currant bushes at our dacha, and that's where you would find me during harvesting time, no doubt.

How wonderful to hear you describe the wonders of your childhood nature and the dacha.

aww, I can definitely tell the similar story about living among the black currant bushes at our dacha in the summer time when I was a little girl:)-RRB--RRB- thank you for this recipe, I was just thinking what is better to do with that frozen treasure in my freezer.

I just got back from Russia a few days ago, and there I went to a dacha and ate plums straight off of the tree:) So I understand your desire to search for those perfect plums!

This post is also available in: French One of the things I miss the most about the home country is dacha.

Back in Russia, we had a small plum tree at our dacha.

One of the things I miss the most about the home country is dacha.

Even though summer is the most expensive time to travel, I should take a trip to Russia to visit my grandaunt's dacha!

Since I'm a bit of a Russophile, the dishes with a strong Russian influence hold special appeal to me, and I loved getting glimpses of Anya's memories into summer days at their dacha, foraging for mushrooms and berries.

Putin may not be Stalin, who had a dacha in Sochi, but the Russian president has at least partially rehabilitated the genocidal strongman, praising him for industrializing the Soviet Union and winning World War II.

And you can take the by - appointment - only tour of Stalin's dacha.

It's said that Putin too has a dacha in Sochi.

; we had a large garden (called «dacha») and were growing there lots of fruits and vegies and were working in it all week - ends and some afternoons (parents were working full time and had professional carrees in engineering and finance and that was a challenge for them to look after garden as well).

Lewis pulls in over $ 200,000 a year and, with her husband, owns three homes including a dacha in Hawaii.

Back in the dacha bedroom, as a young girl, Mrs. Caldwell had made it clear that she didn't want «a life within four walls.»

But when a family tragedy means that the nurse suddenly needs to find a fantastical sum of money fast, the dacha's chef lets him in on the secret world of backhanders and bribes going on around him, and opens his eyes to a brewing war between the staff and the new housekeeper, the ruthless new sheriff in town.

His interactions with Sheremetev, as the nurse gradually grows aware of the extent of corruption at the dacha, are threaded with black comedy.

For example, it is in a dacha bedroom, when she is talking to a close friend, that the unnamed narrator is convinced that what she does not want «is a small life, a life of mundane concerns.»

Minor characters flesh out the ensemble cast at Vladimir's dacha, the most intriguing being Stepanin, a world - class chef buoyed by his belief that the demented former president understands and appreciates the gourmet meals he prepares.

In August 2016, we went to a countryside house (dacha) nearby Kyiv with a company of old friends.

The Russian artists Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko have designed a dacha room, in which they have realised new work and where visitors can find additional in - depth information about the exhibition.

According to Aleksey Dorozhkin, editor in chief of ELLE Decoration Russia, in many contemporary Russian homes, «you will see owners dreaming about the faded grandeur of old estates, dachas and bourgeoise apartments of [the] Belle Époque.»