Russian Dacha Diary

Mark Rykoff

The Russian Countryside
My wife and kids stand on one of the makeshift docks that line the lake near our country house, near Vitebsk, Belarus. We vacation every summer at our dacha, which is the third house from the left on the opposite bank of the lake in this photo.

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