izba

She followed the priest as he crossed the little stretch of ground which separated his tiny izba from the church and, just before he stooped to enter his low doorway, called out softly: –

Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child 1915

The izba is warm and when we have moved the provisions from your storeroom to ours, there will be plenty of food for all.

Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child 1915

At last, we leave the izba, having paid eight rubles for our baskets filled with loaves of bread, jars of sour cream and cottage cheese, and a hefty chunk of butter wrapped in a plastic bag.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

We walk along a footpath through a patch of weeds to an izba, a log cabin with a straw roof pressing down on two squatty windows, perched on the brink of the forest.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

At last, we leave the izba, having paid eight rubles for our baskets filled with loaves of bread, jars of sour cream and cottage cheese, and a hefty chunk of butter wrapped in a plastic bag.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

We walk along a footpath through a patch of weeds to an izba, a log cabin with a straw roof pressing down on two squatty windows, perched on the brink of the forest.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

A witness watched as the holy fool, thin,small, and white as a sheet, emerged from his izba.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

A witness watched as the holy fool, thin,small, and white as a sheet, emerged from his izba.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

In his log izba the Russian peasant had his stove corner and, diagonally across from it, his icon corner—his “red” or “beautiful” corner.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

In his log izba the Russian peasant had his stove corner and, diagonally across from it, his icon corner—his “red” or “beautiful” corner.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007