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The Art Nouveau Dacha by Vladimir Story Second World War author of Weak Strongman: TheWith a foreword by King Charles IIIThis fine black and white catalogue, originally published in 1917 in St Petersburg, contains over 40 large pages carrying detailed architectural drawings of specifically modern design. The buildings are mostly domestic homes and of wooden construction during a period when the word modern effectively meant Art Nouveau in Russia. These dachas were intended as both summer houses, but also inhabitable during the hard