47. N. Fedotov, Putevoditel’po dachnym mestnostiam (St. Petersburg, 1889), 200, 215.
48. L. McReynolds and C. Popkin, “The Objective Eye and the Common Good,” in Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution: 1881–1940, ed. C. Kelly and D. Shepherd (Oxford, 1998), 77.
49. Iu. Blok, Velosiped: Ego znachenie dlia zdorov’ia, prakticheskoe primenenie, ukhod za mashinoiu i pr. (Moscow, 1892), 25–26.
50. A.K. Sobolev, Podmoskovnye dachi (Ocherki, nabliudeniia i zametki) (Moscow, 1901), 27.
51. For an interesting brief history of early Russian sound reproduction, see L. I. Tikhvinskaia, “Fragmenty odnoi sud’by na fone fragmentov odnoi kul’tury,” in Razvlekatel’naia kul’tura Rossii XVIII–XIX vv.: Ocherki istorii i teorii, ed. E.V. Dukov (St. Petersburg, 2000). An ironic comment on the dacha gramophone craze is S. Marshak, “Dacha” (1911), in his Sobranie sochinenii v vos’mi tomakh (Moscow, 1968–72), 5:’475–76.
52. Door-to-door collection is described in the story “Ob”dinenie,” in N. A. Leikin, Na dachnom proziabanii, 4th ed. (St. Petersburg, 1912).
53. The Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the St. Petersburg State Theater Library (the repository for manuscripts of all plays approved for performance in prerevolutionary Russia) contains more than thirty plays with some direct reference to the dacha in the title; the number set at the dacha must be significantly greater. On the generally acknowledged need for a lighter repertoire in the summer theaters, see S. Krechetov, “Letnii teatral’nyi stil’ i Malakhovskii teatr,” Rampa i zhizn’, no. 32 (1912), 10–11.
54. See M.V. Iunisov, “‘Lishnii’ teatr: O liubiteliakh i ikh ‘gubiteliakh,’” in Dukov, Razvlekatel’naia kul’tura Rossii.
55. V.O. Mikhnevich, Peterburgskoe leto (St. Petersburg, 1887), 14.
56. S. Cherikover, Peterburg (Moscow, 1909), 206.
57. Al’fa, “Arkhitekturnye zametki,” Domovladelets (St. Petersburg), no. 4 (1906), 6.
58. V. S. Karpovich, ed., Motivy dereviannoi arkhitektury (St. Petersburg, 1903), preface.
59. M. Gor’kii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 25 vols. (Moscow, 1968–76), 7:276.
60. N. Teffi, “Dacha” (1910), in her lumoristicheskie rasskazy (Moscow, 1990), 113. Note the dacha locations that Teffi is specifically targeting in her satirical portrait: Ozerki, Lakhta, Lesnoe, Udel’naia, and all three Pargolovos.
61. See I.A. Bunin, Sobranie sochinenii v deviati tomakh (Moscow, 1965–67), 2:114–51. The story is none too subtle: it was rejected by Novoe slovo as being too “journalistic” (fel’etonno).
62. See I. S. Eventov, ed., Russkaia stikhotvornaia satira, 1908–1917 godov (Leningrad, 1974), 135.
63. Chernyi, Sobranie sochinenii, 1:134–35.
64. Iu. Annenkov, Dnevnik moikh vstrech: Tsikl tragedii, 2 vols. (New York, 1966), 1:28.
65. These attributes are extracted from S. Smith and C. Kelly, “Commercial Culture and Consumerism,” in Kelly and Shepherd, Constructing Russian Culture, 112.
66. “Kolomiagskie dachnitsy,” PG, 12 July 1875, 2.
67. TsIAM, f. 483, op. 3, d. 245, 1.4. Of course, the reason this document is stored in Moscow’s Central Historical Archive is that the plaintiff, unable to resolve the dispute on his own, turned to the local police for assistance.
68. PG, 17 July 1875, 2.
69. F.M. Dostoevskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v tridtsati tomakh (Leningrad, 1972–90), 8:288; English version from The Idiot, trans. D. Magarshack (London, 1955), 361.
70. A. S. Rozanov, Muzykal’nyi Pavlovsk (Leningrad, 1978), 66.
71. G. Znakomyi, Dachi i okrestnosti Peterburga (St. Petersburg, 1891), 3–8. Similar in its perception of social decline at Pavlovsk and in its anti-Semitism is N.A. Leikin, Neunyvaiushchie Rossiiane (St. Petersburg, 1912), esp. 240. Another account of the “democratization” of Pavlovsk in the 1880s can be found in the memoirs of the theater critic A.A. Pleshcheev, Pod sen’iu kulis (Paris, 1936), 108–13. A less alarmist account that pertains to the 1890s is Osip Mandel’shtam’s sketch “Muzyka v Pavlovske,” in Shum vremeni (1923), in his Sochineniia v dvukh tomakh (Moscow, 1990), 2:6–8.
72. See, e.g., PL, 8 June 1880, 3.
73. L. Afanas’ev, “Padenie Pavlovsk,” Dachnitsa, no. 3 (1912), 2.
74. “Lipetsk 3 iiunia,” Lipetskii letnii listok, 7 June 1870, 1.
75. “Gorodskaia khronika,” Razvlechenie, no. 25 (1860), 304.
76. The ways in which the “new” phenomena of urban crime and public unruliness were treated in the press are analyzed in detail by Joan Neuberger in her Hooliganism: Crime, Culture, and Power in St. Petersburg, 1900–1914 (Berkeley, 1993).
77. Znakomyi, Dachi, 11.
78. L. Andreev, “Moskovskoe leto nastupaet,” in his Sobranie sochinenii, 1:144–47.
79. See, e.g., V.M. Garshin, “Peterburgskie pis’ma” (1882), in his Sochineniia (Moscow and Leningrad, 1951).
80. PL, 26 June and 2, 8, and 23 July 1880.
81. PLL, 1 Aug. 1882, 2.
82. “Romanicheskoe ubiistvo,” Dachnyi listok, 21 June 1909, 3.
83. Dachnitsa, no. 3 (1912), 3.
84. Oranienbaumskii dachnyi listok, 30 May 1907, 3.
85. As Susan Morrissey observes in a useful discussion, “suicide was transformed into a phenomenon in which the individual was almost absent": “Suicide and Civilization in Late Imperial Russia,” JfGO 43 (1995): 211. For more on the origins of the suicide epidemic and meanings ascribed to it, see I. Paperno, Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevskys Russia (Ithaca, N.Y., 1997), esp. chaps. 2 and 3.
86. On the reception and immediate context of “Neznakomka,” see Pyman, Life of Aleksandr Blok, 1:240–44.
87. V. Polunin, Three Generations: Family Life in Russia, 1845–1902 (London, 1957), 181.
88. See I. Gensler, Kullerberg, ili Kak guliali peterburgskie nemtsy na Ivanov den’ (St. Petersburg, 1909).
89. V. Krestovskii, Peterburgskie zolotopromyshlenniki: Ocherki (St. Petersburg, 1865), 39–40.
90. Peterburgskie dachi i dachniki (St. Petersburg, 1867). On the rise of anti-German stereotypes in the first half of the nineteenth century, see A.V. Zhukovskaia, N.N. Mazur, and A.M. Peskov, “Nemetskie tipazhi russkoi belletristiki (konets 1820-kh-nachalo 1840-kh gg.),” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 34 (1998): 37–54.
91. P. K. Mart’ianov, “Nasha dachnaia idilliia,” in Lopari i samoedy stolichnykh nashikh tundr (St. Petersburg, 1891), 249.
92. Leikin, Neunyvaiushchie Rossiiane, 240.
93. Peterburgskie dachnye mestnosti v otnoshenii ikh zdorovosti (St. Petersburg, 1881), 3.
94. Putevoditel’ po S.-Peterburgu, okrestnostiam i dachnym mestnostiam s planom stolitsy, imperatorskikh teatrov i tsira (St. Petersburg, 1895), 135.