This is a sad moment in the life of our Museum. We regret to understand that the house gets old, deteriorating, and we can't repair it with old materials, suitable for the Museum. It was rainy night in Moscow. So, now we've got unsightly wet stains on the ceiling of the Museum and a plot of modern cherry Ondulin appeared between Islands of perennial moss on the grey old roof today.
Saturday night a strong downpour began in Moscow. It lasted the whole night.
And on Sunday morning it turned out that the roof of the old house is not sustained. The house is covered with slate 60 years ago. Slate is overgrown with moss and worn out over the past years. The roof became thin and fragile. Streams of water, wind and time have done their job.
In the morning I found the ceiling in the Museum covered with wet spots. Water dripping down the walls, gathered puddles on the floor.
We called builders for repairing roof.
Every year the workers from the countries of the former USSR come to Moscow. Now many countries have become much poorer then Russia and residents of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other countries come to work in Russia's major cities. They work almost anywhere as unskilled labor. Some people come to work at the dachas - digging, building, watering - they want to do any job.
Tajik workers climbed on the roof with great care and found a hole.
Damaged slate cannot be repaired - it is foliated and crumble because of the age. It's almost unreal to buy a new slate, it is outdated material and we had no time to look for it.
On the roof of the old house, built in 1952, builders had to put sheets of contemporary material.
This is a sad moment in the life of our Museum. There is a plot of modern cherry Ondulin between Islands of moss on the grey old roof now.
And I regret to understand that the house will get old, deteriorating, and i can't repair it with old materials, suitable for the Museum.
Now we have to show Museum of Soviet Dacha with cherry stain on the roof and wet stains on the ceiling.
But we are glad to see every guest and we will tell the story of the Soviet Dacha and show a past life dachas as much as we can to save the old house from time and destruction.
Welcome to Russian Dacha of Soviet era in Moscow