Homes in Russia

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

The composer did some of his finest work in this country home, including "The Nutcracker."

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

A curated museum of wooden sculptures inhabits this Russian home.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.