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Imperial Yacht Club
Mike:
As promised - this is how the 31, B. Morskaya looked back in the 1900s. At the right, you can see a large glazed balcony just above the Yacht Club entrance. This balcony was used by the club members as a strategic observation post over the street and called The Sopka - a clear allusion to the hills of Manchuria.
And this is the book's cover. Details: Bol'shaya Morskaya, by L. Broitman & E. Krasnova, from the series Petersburg na ladoni [=~ in full view], Petersburg, Papirus Publ., 1997, 221 pp., ISBN 5-87472-161-4.
Belochka:
Mike thanks very much for the images and your information about this series of books. I will now have to search for them! :)
Joanna:
Many many thanks Mike !!! It is enchanting to see c1900's photographs of what we have read of !!!
Joanna
hikaru:
Does somebody knows how the members could use yacht? Was they only private proper? or members could rent the property of the club too?
Did the Russian aristaucracy used yachts being on Dacha a lot?
AlexP:
--- Quote ---Does somebody knows how the members could use yacht? Was they only private proper? or members could rent the property of the club too?
Did the Russian aristaucracy used yachts being on Dacha a lot?
--- End quote ---
Hikarushka,
My question concerns "the aristocracy being on dacha". To speak personally and humbly, in my own family, there was no "dacha". There was house on the Millionaya, in Petersburg, the manor house or feodal estate, whichever word you choose to use, in Courlandia (modern Estonia), and than there were apartments in Tsarkoe Selo (but only after 1910).
So I would like to ask the other board members whose families came from Russia -- what about your particular family's situation?
Where did they live in Peter? And in the country?
Hiraku, na premierna, p---la...
Regards,
A.A.
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