Dacha: The Soviet Country Cottage captures the vanishing wooden architecture of Soviet dachas, offering a rare glimpse into a key cultural aspect of Soviet life. A ‘dacha’ is a country cottage, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for 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 rapidly vanishing fairytale wooden world.
