In old, still black-and-white photographs of domestic villages, you can see houses without chimneys. An attentive person immediately raises the question of how in a house in the middle of a virtually wilderness in our latitudes there may be no stove. After all, this is not only a way of heating the home, but also the main device for cooking food, storing it and maintaining the high temperature of ready-made dishes.
Conventional "pipes" in the huts in our latitudes have always been, as well as ovens inside the premises. The point is that in the old days they could be very different from what we are used to seeing in the villages of the 20th century. Special, its middle and second half. There has always been a stone or clay oven in a country house. However, the hut could be drowned "in black" This is when smoke from a stove enters a room and then exits through a doorway or through a small ventilation hole in the wall.
It is for this reason that in many photographs of village houses, even at the beginning of the 20th century, one may not see the easily recognizable chimneys. And this despite the fact that it was Peter I who forbade drowning the huts “in the dark”. However, then his decree concerned only city buildings. In villages, villages and farmsteads, houses with "white" heating appeared very slowly. As a rule, only the wealthiest residents had stoves with a classic chimney.
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Heating the hut "in black" is a rather harsh thing. Needless to say, the clouds of smoke inside the building led to the soot settling literally everywhere. It is for this reason that the peasants usually had "dirty" skin. Work in the field and regular heating of the hut "in black" left a characteristic tan on the human body, which was very difficult to remove. It is worth noting that it is not easy to remove soot from soot from the skin even with the use of modern means.
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However, this does not mean at all that the ancestors were unclean. Quite the opposite - the peasants tried to wash themselves as soon as possible, and also thoroughly washed their home from soot before religious holidays.
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