Carpet. Blown away. Street photography in the Russian outback.

in streetphotography •  7 years ago  (edited)

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In many Russian cities, the influence of the east is strong, so in most homes you can see carpets on the walls and on the floor. There's no practical use – only tradition. Moreover, this is not a product of folk crafts - it's an industrial goods, and of synthetic materials.

In the Soviet era, carpets hung on the walls, as it was believed that this helps to keep the heat and also to improve the acoustic properties – to get rid of the echo and reduce the audibility of sounds from neighboring apartments. The inner walls were fantastically thin, because of what in the apartment you could hear absolutely everything that is happening in the neighbors. The simplest solution to the noise isolation problem was carpets that were hung on the wall, laid on the floor and at least partially drowned sounds from neighboring apartments.

In particularly wealthy families carpets were on all four walls, on the floor, as well as on sofas and armchairs, thanks to which the apartment resembles the home of Mongolian nomads.

Today it is believed that the carpet hanging on the wall is a sign of a low culture of everyday life and insufficient welfare of its owner.

Carpets are usually washed in a bathtub and hang around on the balcony, which is why they are often blown away by the wind. This is exactly what I photographed.

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I'm old enough to remember these carpets on the wall even much further west - in Poland. I guess now most of them disappeared. Together with foil bags protecting TV remotes ;-)
But thanks for this story, I never knew WHY people do this.
And cool photo.
Fits you username perfectly :D

Thank you! Yes, we had many intersections in the history with Poland - with such funny things as what I wrote about, and completely unpleasant. I hope that soon we will become friends. Pray for us so that we will drive out the dictator, finally.

I guess that the most meaningful event during last years was visit of Russian football fans in Warsaw during Euro. And suddenly everybody noticed that we are quite similar, and they just drank vodka with Polish fans and enjoyed football :-)

Unfortunately we all are still prisoners of big politics :-(

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