Izba is a Russian traditional housing. Izba is usually built of logs (pieces of wood). This type of housing was very popular, when slavic tribes were organized in one state. Everybody lived in izba (even Tsar) till people invented stone houses. Izba always had a so called "red edge". In that edge people had a red sewed towel called "rooshneek" and icons. This edge was holy. Also there were no beds in izbas, everybody slept on the benches or on the stove.
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там северная русская изба
Izba is a Russian traditional housing. Izba is usually built of logs (pieces of wood). This type of housing was very popular, when slavic tribes were organized in one state. Everybody lived in izba (even Tsar) till people invented stone houses. Izba always had a so called "red edge". In that edge people had a red sewed towel called "rooshneek" and icons. This edge was holy. Also there were no beds in izbas, everybody slept on the benches or on the stove.