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Furniture Archaic, mirors |
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| Russian province furniture was
characterized by extraordinary
massiveness, durability and steadiness.
Laconic and massive forms so
organically merged with the
architecture fo the hut that it could
be rather hard to put a precise border
between them.
The Russian word for "furniture" means
parts of the interior, which can be
moved from one place to another. Only
benches, chairs, boxes, chests and
stools were referred to those in the
village hut. All other subjects were
tightly fastened to the walls and made
a single unit with the architecture of
the hut. |
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Chairs |
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| The researchers refer to the occurrence of chairs in the peasant hut to the middle of the 19th century. Earlier benches were the main element of the interior of the peasant's hut. They were made importable along all the walls of the dwelling. People slept, worked, feasted, cooked on them and also met guests. Portable benches with four legs or two wide boards were called "skam'ji". They could be made with or without a back.
Long time ago Russian peasants used small stools curved from pine roots. Legs were root ends. So-called workers' chairs (for work at home) with three legs were widely used in Russian countryside. |
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Cupboards |
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| The origin of the cupboards and
wardrobes was the so-called "sleeping
shelves" firmly attached to the walls
and where people slept. Usually they
were closed by the curtain, which,
however was not useful against dust. It
is for this reason that the curtain
later was replaced by wooden doors with
hinge-plates. That resulted in
occurrence of a new types of the peasant
furniture - cupboards and wardrobes.
Originally they were tightly attached to
the wall in the hut and then it was
separated from it. It was supplied with
a back wall i.e. it started to be movable. |
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Mirrors |
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| Desk-, Wall, Hand- mirrors |
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Tables |
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| A table was the most significant and
highly esteemed subject in the peasant
hut. It was usually located in the
‘’red corner’’ and the members of the
peasant’s family gathered together
around it. The design of the village
table consisted of two parts: a massive
‘’podstol’je’’ (frame that tie up table
legs) and an upper board, so-called
‘’stoleshnitsa’’.
In the Russian North tables were
always put lengthwise floorboards that
is to say by the narrow part to the
front wall of the hut. |
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