Living in an Izba
History8/9/15Life as a Russian peasantLiving in an Izba (1900)Izba- an Izba is a traditional Russian countryside dwelling. Often a log house, it forms the living quarters of a conventional Russian farmstead. It is generally built close to the road and inside a yard, which also encloses a kitchen garden, hay shed, and barn within a simple woven stick fence. Traditional, old-style Izba construction involved the use of simple tools, such as ropes, axes, knives, and spades. Nails were not generally used, as metal was relatively expensive, and neither were saws a common construction tool.They ate mostly bread. Due to weather, high taxes and crop damage. Millions of peasants starved due to small land to farm. Famine was a huge issueWood ploughs would have been used mainly for agriculture. These were inefficient and could only be used on small land. (Since the middle ages Western Europe were using metal ploughs) this lagged far behind the west.An Izba’s wall is made from logs laid on each other. There are no rust marks what does this suggest? Russians didn’t use nails when building their house as historian believe metal was too expensive.
They would try to impress neighbours by carving wood to represent flowers although these were poor quality.Cottage industry would be the Russian peasants main way of making money besides farming they would make mainly spoons from wood in large quantity.Beds built on top of ovens to keep warm[pic 1]10/9/5Russian society (pre ww1)Nicholas II leader of the Russian empire [pic 2]To what extent were the Romanovs responsible to the fall of the tsarist rule in Russia? Backward and resisted reform no expansion of political power no political party’s no free press