The term serf, in the sense of an unfree peasant of the Russian Empire, is the usual translation of krepostnoi krestyanin (ÐºÑÐµÐ¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÑÐµÑÑÑÑÐ½Ð¸Ð½). The origins of serfdom in Russia are traced to Kievan Rus' in the 11th century. Legal documents of the epoch, such as Russkaya Pravda, distinguished several degrees of feudal dependency of peasants.
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, or heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates.hatching methods have traditionally been passed down from generation to generation, and numerous descriptions of the materials and methods used in Europe over the past three centuries survive in archives and early publications.
Wooden cottage with thatched roof from Lithuania image by Kamil Korczak from Fotolia.com. Thatch is a historic roofing material still seen in some reconstructions and homes designed for a traditional appearance.he wheat is harvested in bundles using a binder. The grain is threshed from the stalks before the thatch is bundled for use as roofing, which makes the wheat reed a byproduct of the grain harvest process. However, the process requires a lot of manual labor and results in a thatch that has a useful life of 25 years.