A day out in Saint Petersburg’s sea fortress.
Russians may be the all-time leading experts at the art of GTFO: getting the fuck out of the city and heading to their dachas (summer cottages) to grill and garden and tinker was an Imperial tradition that became democratized for the masses during Soviet times. Even today, dacha culture is sacred—in May 2018, rare public brawls broke out between locals and police in Shchelkanovo, near Moscow, over what dacha-owners consider an illegal landfill near their summer cottages. “That’s where I grow my fucking cucumbers,” one usually apolitical dacha-dweller told my colleague Nathan Thornburgh in order to explain why he was squaring off with security services.
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