. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 384 RUSSIA IN EUEOPE. The Great Hussiun villages consist of groups of wretched cabins packed one against another, with no intervening gardens, and even most of the'towns are nothing but confused aggregntes of wooden structures, always at the mercy of the flames. The huts, built of fir, with thatched roofs, and surrounded with heaps of straw and hay, branches and chips, are liable to be set on fire by every chance spark. Fire thus becomes the natural end of the llussian village, which is said to be renewed, on an average, about every seven years. B
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 384 RUSSIA IN EUEOPE. The Great Hussiun villages consist of groups of wretched cabins packed one against another, with no intervening gardens, and even most of the'towns are nothing but confused aggregntes of wooden structures, always at the mercy of the flames. The huts, built of fir, with thatched roofs, and surrounded with heaps of straw and hay, branches and chips, are liable to be set on fire by every chance spark. Fire thus becomes the natural end of the llussian village, which is said to be renewed, on an average, about every seven years. But in the central provinces riof. 201.—TCosTKOMA : MoNAsxiiUY or this " renovation " is often much more frequent, and there are districts in which one-fourth of the houses have been consumed in a single year. In the towns the only stone buildings arc the Government ofhces, tlie pabices of the nobles, and the churches, nearly all built on a uniform plan, iifu;r tlie regulation type of the 8t. Petersburg authorities. These structures lay no cliiim to art, whose life is freodoin, and which perishes in the atmosphere of traditional Kyinb(dism. In the churches art is replaced by a lavish display of gold, , enamels, and precious Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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