Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's Countryside

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197 abandonment, 104, 105 Abramtsevo, 31, 176n1 access, 110–11, 131 active rest, 43 advertising, 83, 91, 112–13 aesthetics, 32 aggression, 125, 133 agrarian lifestyle, 78 agriculture, 80, 103. See also collective farms; state farms allocation, 6–7, 14, 29 aloneness, xiv, 111 animals, 118, 119–20 apartment living, 83, 132 architectural styles, 7, 18, 107, 121, 123, 168 arrhythmia, 57 art, 31, 54 “At a Summer Villa,” 34–35 authenticity, 115–19, 120, 122, 167 autonomy, 64, 69 banya, 66–69 Basso, Keith, 38 beautification efforts, 83 berries, 74–76 bodies, 38, 44, 45, 52, 53, 58 body regimes, 42 books, 2, 54, 163 building regulations, 9 Bulgakov, Mikhail, 54 Bytsovskii Nature Forest, 65, 144 camp (lager), 22, 60–61 capitalism, 79, 87, 90, 99, 103, 141, 149, 157 Casey, Edward, 38 change, 72–73, 99, 104, 111, 113, 116, 122, 123, 129, 160, 166, 171, 172 Chekhov, Anton, 28, 30, 32–33, 34–37, 46, 47, 166. See also “At a Summer Villa”; “Dachniki” civic hygiene, 152 civil society, 134–35, 141, 155, 182n3, 182n4 class, 30 collective farms, 79, 103 commercial food, 82, 85, 88–89, 90, 97, 98, 99, 101, 180n1 communal apartments, 145 communalism, 107 complaints, 56, 122, 124 cooperatives, 135–36, 142 corporeality, 52 cottaging, 4, 6, 42, 53 countryside, 103 cultural exceptionalism, 4, 169–71 cultural intimacy, 45, 46, 134 Index 198 | Index dacha: as gift, 6, 7; definitions of, 6, 8, 9, 175n1, 175n2; descriptions of, 2–3, 8, 116–17, 122; etymology of, 6; literature, 31; rituals, 23–24; use, 10, 22 Dachagate, 155–59, 169 dacha life, 4, 30 dachniki, 14, 33, 44, 106, 168, 171 “Dachniki” (Chekhov), 33, 36–37, 46 Dachniki (Gorky), 15–17, 33–34, 38 danger, 132 deception, 90 decorating, 53, 123 democracy, 78, 135, 149, 157 demographics, 15–16, 18, 172 development: housing, 56, 106, 111, 112–13, 114, 121–22, 123, 166, 168; urban, 110–11 diet, 57 distancing, 45, 46 dusha, 52–53. See also soul; soulfulness ecologically clean, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 179n22 economic uncertainties, 48, 82, 177n6 (ch. 2) economy, subsistence, 48 elites, 7, 18–19, 41, 84, 113–14, 117, 158, 176n1. See also Muscovites; New Russians; nouveaux riches enchantment, 45 entertainment, 54, 61, 70, 102, 114 environmental issues, 78, 131, 151 familiarity, 33 Fast Living, 72 fences, 108, 109–11, 126, 164–66 Feng shui, 98–99 fire, 149–50 fishing, 44, 177n10 food: berries, 74–76; commercial food, 82, 85, 88–89, 90, 97, 98, 99, 101, 180n1; garden foods, 10, 53; health foods, 97–98; mushrooms, 76–77, 80, 178n2; natural foods, 26, 74, 77–78, 79, 80, 82–83, 84, 86, 90, 93–100, 101, 119 food safety, 84–86 food shortages, 10 foraging, 79 freedom, 12, 35, 51, 66, 135, 141, 142, 143, 146, 154, 157 garden foods, 10, 53 gardening, 42, 53, 79, 80 gardens, 51, 78; history of, 9, 10, 40, 175n7; kitchen gardens, 78; pleasure gardens, 40 geographic nationalism, 4, 13, 52, 80 gifts, 87, 94–95, 180n27. See also dacha as gift “good life,” 4 Gorky, Maxim, 15, 31, 47. See also Dachniki grocery stores, 82 Gumilev, Lev, 125 health, 12, 44, 133 health food, 97–98 healthfulness, 42, 74, 80, 88, 89 heritage, 82, 167 heroic shopping, 51–52 Herzfeld, Michael, 45, 134 housing, 56, 132, 145, 181n6 Humphrey, Caroline, 5, 79 identity, 125 independence, 146 individuality, 51 industrialization, 30, 102 inspectors, 117 insurance, 148 intimacy, 12, 17, 25, 34, 82, 95, 100, 108, 136, 139, 147 Kasyanov, Mikhail, 155–59 Khinshtein, Alexander, 156 kitchen gardens, 78 Koshar, Rudy, 39 labor, 39, 44, 78 Lake Seliger, 22 landscape, 106, 107 lawnmowers, 114 leisure, 9, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 53, 61, 177n7 Levitan, Isaac, 31 living standards, 79, 127 Lovell, Stephen, 5, 6, 82, 145 margins, 133–34 Marinina, Alexandra, 163 marketing, 90–91 Index | 199 Master and Margarita, 54 McDonald’s, 70–72 McReynolds, Louise, 41 medicine, 89, 98 mentalitet, 125 Meratus, 127 misery, 49, 51–52 modernization, 84 morality, 86, 124, 146 “Muscovites,” 107, 123–26 mushrooms, 76–77, 80, 178n2 music, xiv–xv narod, 13 nation, 13 nationalism, 12, 45 nation building, 41, 134 natural foods, 26, 74, 77–78, 79, 80, 82–83, 84, 86, 90, 93–100, 101, 119 nature, 11, 12, 13, 25, 42 Nekrasov, N.A., 31 networks, 87, 93 New Russians, 84, 113–14 nomenklatura, 14, 158, 176n12...