Anna had already gone into the country, not far from the capital, to the summer datcha at Peterhof.

It was not with real pleasure, but with an affectation of cordiality that Anna received her husband when he reached the datcha.

He assisted her to alight at the datcha, shook hands with her in the presence of the servants, and returned to St. Petersburg.

I had looked forward to my arrival, for I had a Russian friend there, living for the summer in her own datcha, and I had received a very warm invitation to stay there some days.

Part of the verandah had lately been washed away in a storm, so close was the datcha to the waves.

'You'd better buy the datcha,' said Alexander Fed'otch to them.

As for our datcha, being as it is the nearest to the sea, the waves were already washing stones and mortar away.

The datcha was saved; perhaps the whole village.

"The datcha is finished now; to-morrow you must go and see it.

"We wanted to put a vineyard round the datcha, but what with the children and the pigs mauling and biting at everything, it couldn't be managed.

Think of that foolish contractor Gretchkin and our costly datcha.