How Moscow Draws the History of "Ancient Rus'": House Types That Never Existed

Professor Alexander Galanin created a map of traditional house types across Eastern Europe. The map divided regions between Slovene, Russian, Finno-Ugric, and Kipchak types. The scheme looks convincing. Scientific categories, geographic attachment, references to climate and materials. But when checked against archaeology and ethnography, it collapses completely.

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