Wood has been and remains a key construction material. We see it everywhere in Siberia: standing majestuous in the forest, cut and lying on the floor, being transported, processed, and finally used in constructions. Retracing Russian habitat between XVII and XXth centuries is the occasion to demonstrate the mastery in wooden architecture.
Street with traditional wooden houses in Taltsi museum, next to Irkutsk
Mayor's house
Details
Examples of churches from the 2 variants of Christian Orthodox religions after the schism.
Eglise des vieux croyants
Other example, this time in Ulan Ude
And the most impressice piece is the main tower of the ostrog (i.e. fortress), here in the case of a volost, which is the smallest administrative territorial unit in tsarist Russia.
Details of bicephale eagle of Russian Tsar
Finally, Parish school:
And cimetery:
The famous painter Sourikov lived in Krasnoiarsk and his house now transformed in museum transports its visitors back to the life at the end of tsarist Russia.
Inside the house with a copy of his most famous painting, the original being in Russian Museum of Saint-Petersburg:
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