Surely many of you have heard the lines from the famous criminal song about the Singer sewing machine, but not everyone knows about the magnificent dacha of the owner of the Singer company, located in St. Petersburg. In pre-revolutionary times, this dacha settlement was a half-hour train ride from the Finland Station and was considered quite prestigious. At the beginning of the last century, Heinrich-Friedrich (Heinrich Heinrichovich) Bertling purchased a plot here and began constructing a new dacha. The name of the architect of the project has not survived to this day, but his work turned out to be magnificent. The main building of the dacha, two stories high, is made of logs that are skillfully processed and delight the eyes of numerous tourists.

The dacha was built in 1908 and belonged to the Bertling family until 1915, when the widowed Mrs. Bertling sold it to engineer Vidstedt. The new owner did not use the dacha for long and, deciding not to take risks, left Russia in 1917. After his departure, the dacha soon fell into the hands of the Bolsheviks, who, according to rumors, made the decision for the armed coup known as the October Revolution right there. Thanks to this event, the dacha was not destroyed like many other historical mansions, but was converted into a museum. For a long time, the exhibition had an exclusively propagandistic character. Today, the house still houses a museum, now called the Children's Museum Center for Historical Education. We do not know what they teach children there, but we can be glad that the house itself has been preserved.