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hikaru:
And what about Yacht?

David_Pritchard:

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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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Courlandia is in modern day Latvia not in modern day Estonia!

Please use the 1772 map in the collections of the University Library as a point of reference:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/baltics_1772.jpg

David

NAAOTMA:
David is perfectly correct in that "Courlandia" or in Estonian "Kurland" was NEVER in Estonian territory. Kurland was located west of Riga in present day Latvia, well south and west of Estonian territory.

It was never part of either Livonia (Livland) or Estonia (Estland). This goes for Estonia under Swedish rule or under Imperial Russian rule, as well as under the earlier Hanseatic League and the Germanic Baltic barons.

At times Kurland was under Polish rule and Lithuanian rule.

Just sign me a Proud Estonian By Marriage

NAAOTMA:
The source I used to confirm the above post is:

  Estonia and the Estonians by Toivu U. Raun
  Second Edition/Hoover Institution/Stanford University
  1991

   This book covers Estonia from pre-historic times through de-Sovietization & the second Estonian Independence Movement in 1991.

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