dacha \dacha\ n. [Russian.] a Russian country house, especially a cottage used in the summer. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] ||
Then days after his return to Moscow, Mr. Gorbachev spent 10 hours at a government dacha with republic leaders, discussing many of their basic disagreements and signing the landmark April 23 accord.
During the years Rybakov waited for his blockbuster to appear in print, he lived and worked at his peaceful dacha, or cottage, at Peredelkino, the wooded village where the Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist Boris Pasternak wrote and is buried.
Komsomolskaya Pravda said Ryzhkov was out buying a dacha while vigorously fighting proposals to legalize private land.
He was forced to reject the award, and returned to his dacha in Peredelkino where he died in 1960.
The Reagans and Gorbachevs got together Wednesday night to take in the Bolshoi Ballet then shared a private moment over a cozy dinner at a government-owned dacha outside Moscow.
The newspaper said its report was based partly on an account recently given to it by a retired security officer, A. T. Rykov, who claimed he was present at Stalin's dacha, or country home, when Stalin died.
A dacha is a summer home.
I take care of my dacha because it's mine and my flat because it belongs to me.
Messrs. Boldin, Shenin and Plekhanov had just returned from Mr. Gorbachev's dacha in the Crimean town of Foros, where they had failed to persuade him to declare a state of emergency.
August 18: 1991: Coup leaders hold President Mikhail Gorbachev captive in Crimean dacha August 19: Coup leaders declare state of emergency August 21: Coup collapses.
"It's almost as if Al Haig or Caspar Weinberger or someone like that turned up in a dacha outside Moscow," Janusz Glowacki, a Polish playwright now living in New York, told the newspaper.