The Russian log house (izba)
A frame of horizontal logs notched at the corners, gable to the street, with carved window surrounds and bargeboards, in its fenced yard with barn and bath-house.
The rules it illustrates
The log frame. Build the house of whole logs laid horizontally and notched into one another at the corners, their ends left projecting; stop the joints with moss; roof it with boards or birch bark on a steep pitch; raise the living room on a lower storey where the ground is damp.