Crossword-Solution: IZBA 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The house was built by the deceased nobleman whose widow he still continued to serve, and may be described as follows: The four walls surrounding the one _izba_ (room) were built of stone, and the interior was ten yards square.

While I was engaged in an endeavor to rouse my should-be coachman, by tugging at his sleeve and pushing his boots in the most painful manner I could devise, a good-looking peasant woman made her tardy appearance at the side door of the adjoining _izba_, and seemed to enjoy the situation in an impartial, impersonal way.

Provide yourself with a bridle, and take a thick aspen cudgel, and sit quietly in the izba--don't stir a step anywhere.

Round her came swarming countless devils, the izba was full of them! They rushed about in search of the Soldier; they looked into the stove-- "Here's the place," they cried, "where he was last night." "There's the place, but he's not there." This way and that they rush,--cannot see him anywhere.

But instead of asking aid from the Lord, they applied to the Devil, who taught them how to make an _izba_ or ordinary Russian cottage.