“Northern Russian cities are very cozy. Especially where civilization with panel and brick five-story buildings had not yet arrived. The city of Dubrovsk was all wooden. The houses made of logs looked like towers. In front of each entrance there was a carved porch, around the windows there were platbands, and on the roofs there were turrets with weather vanes. However, upon closer examination it was clear that these were just old hundred-year-old barracks. Solid log houses with two floors, two entrances and eight apartments... It’s just that in those days even houses for the common people were built reliably and beautifully...”