Dacha

A dacha is a wooden country retreat, long used by Soviet citizens to escape city life in favor of a rural idyll. Found throughout the former USSR, these houses—ranging from grand imperial villas to humble garden sheds—represent a vital cultural and architectural tradition that has often been overlooked.

In Dacha, photographer Fyodor Savintsev documents this distinctly Russian phenomenon, capturing a fairy-tale wooden world that is rapidly disappearing. Once bestowed by Tsars and later built by Soviet cooperatives for favored writers, artists, and intellectuals, dachas became even more essential after the fall of the Soviet Union, as city dwellers turned to self-sufficiency. Both poetic and documentary, this book preserves a quietly enduring way of life—rooted in wood, history, and the timeless appeal of the countryside.

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