Features of the Interior Environment of the Dwellings of the Peoples of the Middle Volga Region at the End of the XIX – the First Half of the XX Centuries

Abstract

The article pays attention to the interior environment of the dwellings of the Middle Volga region at the end of the 19th – first half of the 20th centuries, which due to ethnonational and historical and cultural factors, may have some specific features. The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of the interior environment of the dwellings of the peoples of the Middle Volga region at the end of the XIX – the first half of the XX centuries. It is emphasized that the interior elements allow us to judge the spiritual and material spheres of life of their carriers. The methods of the article are based on a combination of cultural, historical (in combination with comparative) and systems approaches. As a result of studying the culture of the peoples living in the region as well as literature devoted to the analysis of the peculiarities of the organization of the internal space of the traditional dwellings of the peoples of the Middle Volga region during the study, various documents, data from field studies, as well as museum funds, it is concluded that, with the inevitable variety of interior environment the dwellings of the peoples of the Middle Volga region, the same type of internal layout of the living space is observed. It is noted that one can observe the interpenetration of national cultures, expressed in the presence of common features in the interior of the dwellings of diverse ethnic groups, which makes it possible to talk about the regional Middle Volga culture, which is manifested in the object-household environment and design of interior.

Keywords

• Middle Volga Region
• ethnic mutual influence
• housing
• interior
• life
• traditional culture