Village professions and classes of old Russia. Shangin I.I.

Our ancestors who lived in villages and villages were real craftsmen and, above all, appreciated workshops in each other. Each man could plow and sow the ground, cut down a bath or hut, and a woman - hide not one skein of threads and touched the canvas from them. But the classes of the Russian peasants did not end there, because in the village there were a variety of crafts and crafts.

This book will introduce readers to Smolokur and Kozhemyaka, Konoval and lace and many other masters of their craft, every chapter about old photographs and colorful drawings. And he will tell you what it means to “bring decorations”, without whom not a single holiday has been done in the village, who asked for permission to work a lumberjack and why the sower buried two red eggs in the ground.