* MILL * WINDMILL

 Large parishes were located among the forested hills on the banks of rivers and lakes, stretched out in length, or curled into a ball. Villages were separated with small fields, reap, water, or groves.

 Villages with 40 to 120 homes, with their buildings, either silver, covered with a patina of the wood, or white, with an amber tint, looked very picturesque. But the village without the church seems flat, kind of dispirited and homely. Northern peasants correctly understood that. The vertical, completing and complementing a horizontal architectural ensemble was usually a windmill or a chapel. In larger villages, the parish built the church with a bell tower.

 The windmill - technically not a pretty simple structure - was of two types: dome and barn types. It was built about one-third higher than the highest house in the village. There were some crush mills, often dome-like. The artistic impression of such "vertical" is because of the height and the unusual contour of a landscape.
 A mill was built somewhere near the village, on the open hillside. In some communities, such as Kupaiha of Azelitskii parish Kadnikovsko county, five or six or eight mills were already too many. From afar, such a village looked absurd and positively not quite beautiful.

 The windmill enlivens the appearance of the countryside, residential slots and even groups of villages, completing their architectural appearance with amazing new details. However, the beauty of the watermill is different.
 The wild, untouched nature, the woods or meadows, rapids or broad "quiet" rivers, sky, water, and wind are all around. Suddenly, amid all, a single, entirely made structure is working noisily and incessantly. Nature around such an architectural object transformed and became very dear.