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Artist Yuri Annenkov, summoned to do his portrait at the dacha where he was convalescing, said he had “the helpless, twisted, infantile smile of a man who had fallen into childhood.”

Reimpounding the reservoir could entice residents back to abandoned homes, weekend dachas, and fishing boats along the former shoreline.

The idea of repurposing wartime detritus for his art came to Reva last year after his dacha — the Russian word for a simple summer home in the countryside — was damaged in a Russian missile strike.

Foros, another resort town near Sevastopol, held the state dachas of Soviet leaders.

Berlusconi hosted Putin twice at one of his Sardinia Emerald Coast villas, and the Russian reciprocated, including with a stay at Putin’s dacha.