More Russian houses

 Note the natural tree root timbers holding up the roof - we had never seen anything like that before.

 This is the Angara River at the bottom of the hill where the museum is located.  There was a settlement here in the 1700's - they have moved some structures here when they built a hydroelectric dam and flooded the valley...other structures were already here - the three grain mills were.

 Aside street of the Russian section...their logs fit very tightly - chinked with moss and grass where needed.

 Every house in the Russian section had what they call the 'red' center - high shelf with religious icons - Christianity came to this part of Russia in the middle of the 10th century - 950 or so.  A Church was built in Kiev (then Russian) in 957 - in 1988 Russians celebrated 1,000 years of Christianity in Russia.

 This white structure is the home's oven - many Russian authors have written about it being the center of the home ... note at the left top of the picture the quilt - it is covering a bed - for the old people and the little children - the warmest place in the house!

 A close up of the quilt covering the bed - we learned so much.

 Another corner of the house.

Cossack leather saddle and above it saddle bags.  The Cossacks had the 'town' Cossacks - they ran the government in the towns and villages - the 'line' Cossacks guarded the border.

 This is the replica of a village cemetery.

Closer view of the graves in the cemetery - they would store bodies in the bottom of the jail house until the ground thawed enough to bury them!