in 1905, post office regulations allowed cutler's letter boxes ?in all office buildings of more than five stories and in bhotels/b taller than five stories and in apartment houses with more than 50 residential apartments. ...
Was it like a born and bred German to cherish memories of his family ?dacha? (a Russian-style country house) outside Moscow? - Was it typical for a German?s friends to address him as Walja (Russian diminutive of Valentine)? ...
Though the weekends are usually full of washing, cleaning, ironing and linen mending and summer vacations to tending the dacha, weeding and gathering the harvest and making as much as possible preserves for winter. ...
