This article challenges the notion of leisure space as apolitical by investigating why the Karelian Isthmus dacha settlements, located in the Grand Duchy of Finland, served as preparation grounds for clandestine political activity. Using memoirs, newspapers and Russian archival sources, this article reveals how Finland's legal position in the Russian empire, combined with the particularities of dacha life, enabled revolutionary activity in places primarily associated with leisure. Far from being innocuous vacation destinations removed from political problems, the dacha settlements in Finland exposed the diminished capacity of tsarist authorities’ actions on the fringes of the Russian empire.

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休假的俄国革命者：1900-17 年芬兰乡村的反政府活动

本文通过调查位于芬兰大公国的卡累利阿地峡别墅定居点为何成为秘密政治活动的准备场所，从而挑战休闲空间与政治无关的概念。本文利用回忆录、报纸和俄罗斯档案资料，揭示了芬兰在俄罗斯帝国中的法律地位，结合别墅生活的特殊性，如何在主要与休闲相关的地方开展革命活动。芬兰的别墅定居点远非远离政治问题的无害度假胜地，暴露了沙皇当局在俄罗斯帝国边缘的行动能力减弱。