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The aim of the article is to show the points of intersection between the two artistic embodiments of the estate and dacha in two emigrant works by Russian writers — V.V. Nabokov and S.D. Dovlatov. The evolution of the image of the estate is traced through the intertextual analysis of V.V. Nabokov’s novel “Ada or Ardor” and S. Dovlatov’s cycle “Stories of Last Summer”. Based on the intertextual references to classical Russian literature found in both works of emigrant writers, the conclusion is made that both authors, being far from their homeland, kept in touch with the abandoned metropolis through intertext. The evolution of the topics — from estate to dacha — determines a certain choice of works to which the authors make references. However, despite the large number of differences between the works, both formal and substantive, revealed in the course of the comparative analysis, both writers turn to the estate-dacha topics of the Russian classics, in particular to the work of S.T. Aksakov, thus realizing through literature a continuous connection with the abandoned homeland.