The book includes new research on the most important sections of the material culture of the Russian people - housing and clothing. The reader will find here extensive information about the decorations of folk clothes (embroidery, patterned fabric, etc.), external and internal decoration (carving, painting), layout and furnishing of the peasant dwelling. The appendix provides a detailed bibliography, indexes of archival materials and museum collections used in compiling all sections of the Atlas characterizing agriculture, housing and clothing of the Russian people in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.