Dacha, Dacha monument in Zgornje Gameljne, Slovenia.

Dacha is a restored villa in Zgornje Gameljne featuring stained glass windows, wooden ceilings, and decorated walls throughout its rooms. The interior displays furnishings and details from the late 1800s and early 1900s that show how people lived during that time.

Blaž Černe built the original house in 1882, when it received the address Gameljne 35. In 1907 it was bought by Ljubljana merchant and brewery agent Franc Petrič, who in 1908 rebuilt and extended it in a style recalling Russian dachas and officially renamed it a villa. Accused of spying for Italy in World War I, Petrič was sentenced to death and shot on 2 November 1915 at Suhi bajar in Ljubljana; he was rehabilitated after the war and his family received compensation. The house was bought at auction in 2016 by businessman Aleš Musar and renovated by 2018.

The name Ruska dača, Russian dacha, comes from the 1908 rebuilding by merchant Franc Petrič, who gave the house the look of a Russian country villa; it is the only dacha in Slovenia. The house now serves as a tourist experience of life at the turn of the 20th century.

The house stands in Zgornje Gameljne, a village north of Ljubljana, and is reached by local road; the building has a masonry ground floor and a wooden upper floor ringed by a gallery, so expect stairs between levels. It is a monument of local significance, and visits are arranged as a presentation of life around 1900 rather than a free walk-through.

The house is the only example of a dacha in Slovenia, and its 1908 rebuilding gave it the wooden gallery, carved details and stained glass that define it. Franc Petrič, the merchant who commissioned that work, was executed on 2 November 1915 at Suhi bajar in Ljubljana after a spying conviction, and rehabilitated after the war.