Письмо на английском о русской избе

A typical izba only has one big room, approximately 265 square feet, where peasants cook, eat and sleep, and the central object inside is the stove. The very name of izba comes from the stove: in early Russian, izba meant "the one being heated." Stoves made of brick or clay were placed on a separate base, so that the house wouldn’t lean to its side. Inside the stove base, dishes and cookware were stored.

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.