Bientôt des chambres d’hôtes (non chauffées) dans la datcha de Staline à Sotchi…
Welcome to the Sochi home of Stalin ... - CNN.com
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Sochi, Russia (CNN) — “He didn’t want carpets, he preferred to hear footsteps of people as they approached on the wooden parquet flooring,” says Anna Hovantseva, the tour guide, as she explains another interior-design quirk of one of the most morbidly fascinating personalities of the 20th century.
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The retreat is open to visitors and will soon offer rooms to guests this summer for 7,000 roubles ($200) per night. Welcome to the home of Stalin.
There’s a swimming pool, so small it more closely resembles an oversized sunken bath, where the Communist chief enjoyed walking (he couldn’t swim) in seawater up to his shoulders.
It was designed by architect Miron Merzhanov, to whom Stalin made only one request for the building: No fountains. A direction that required a swift alteration to the original water feature that sat in the middle of the central courtyard into a flowerbed.
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