Objects
Photograph: Water mill. Russians
Photograph: Water mill. Russians
Title
Photograph: Water mill
Ethnic groups
Russians
Territory
Arkhangelsk Guberniya, Uyezd
Date
Collectors-person
Kostikov Leonid V.
Photographer

Kostiko L.V.
Dimensions
11,5 x 17
Number
РЭМ 2637-73
Annotation
Water mills were built on the sides of dammed rivers, and worked in spring, summer, and autumn, when the rivers were free of ice. A water mill was a log structure in whose top part was a running millstone, and in the bottom part, the fixed one secured in a wooden frame. The mechanism was set in motion by a strong head of water. The upper millstone was rotating on the lower one grinding the grain falling between them. Abstract by O.G. Baranova