How Houses Were Built and Lived in Russia

What is the difference between a izba and a khoromy? Why were windows in ancient times covered with bull bladders or mica? Why was the door made low, and what was highlighted in the izba as the red corner and... the women's corner? The book will tell about the houses of our ancestors — from earth shelters and half-earth shelters to spacious boyar khoromy. You will learn how craftsmen joined logs in a log house and what they covered the roofs with, how the Russian stove was arranged and why it was called mother-nourisher. And also — what was kept in chests and boxes, where the sleeping platforms stood, and what was done in the light room and gridne.