3-056-657 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

'Izba'; a Russian family, 1812. Scene inside a Russian peasant house, or izba; a child holds his arms up to a woman holding a baby. She reaches towards a contraption hung in front of the chimney breast. Two people are in a sleeping-alcove above. Another woman and a man look on. From "A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians", by John Augustus Atkinson and James Walker.