Count Apraksin’s Dacha in The Life and Work of K. G. Paustovsky
Journal: Vestnik of Kostroma State University
Year: 2025

This article focuses on the former dacha of Count Apraksin in Balaklava, where Paustovsky spent his vacation in 1929.To study the influence of this period on the author’s life and work, we analyzed letters, diaries, and literary works, as well as the memoirs of the writer’s son, Vadim. The author discovered that the architecture of the “Priboy” dacha complex, built in the 1900s by N.P. Krasnov, was of little interest to Paustovsky. Instead, he focused on the nature and history of the area, as we