ABSTRACT
Dauria was a dusty little Transbaikal town on the line to Manchuria, sitting 50 miles north of the border on a barren, knobby plateau. It served as a flashpoint for invasion from Russia’s Asian neighbors and accordingly hosted an oversized complex of one-and two-storied red brick barracks that could accommodate a mobilization. In the world of Russian military architecture, Dauria’s pseudo-Gothic structures were unique in that they were comfortable, fashionable and new-built in 1907 during the retrospective defense overhaul that followed the defeat to Japan.1
