The image of the summer cottage in the works of I.S. Shmelev and V.A. Nikiforov-Volgin
Journal: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences eBooks
Year: 2020

The article analyzes the image of the summer cottage (dacha) in the four essays (1925–1935) by V. Nikiforov-Volgin and in the epopee “Sun of the Dead” (1923) by I. Shmelev. The essays describe the summer cottages near the Narva Bay. Their abandonment is a sign, that the old Russian life, everyday life, is leaving modern Estonia. The epopee depicts the summer cottages of the “Professorial corner” near Alushta, devastated by the Red Terror in the Crimea. The image is animated, the fate of the cott