Rusețu farm, Buzău, century. the twentieth
Located in the north-east corner of Muntenia, at the intersection of Buzău, Brăila and Ialomița counties, the village of Rușețu is representative for the clustered type settlements in the Romanian Plain, inhabited mainly by farmers and animal breeders. A peculiarity of the place is the presence of „highlanders”, transhumant shepherds who brought their flocks from the mountain areas of Buzău and Brașov.
In 1936, the villager Ion Turculeț's house, dated at the end of the 19th century (1876), was transferred and reconstructed in the Village Museum. The dwelling is built on a stone base, has timber frame walls, whitewashed on the outside, and a hipped roof covered with plate sheets. The façade and one of the sides have a low open veranda, with geometrically carved wooden pillars. The eye is drawn to the chromatic alternance between the ochre-red of the woodwork and the sheet covering, the white of the walls and blue of the door, the window frameworks, the girdle, giving the house a particular note.
The dwelling plan includes a median foyer and two symmetrically placed rooms, one of them being intended for guests. Under the same roof, in extension of the house, the pantry with access from the living room and the aviary attached to the back side were added. In the foyer, an important place is taken by the free hearth with a large chimney around which the simple furniture items were placed, as well as a series of items for domestic and household use (a wooden pail and a bucket for the milk, a churn for butter, the milk bucket, the tub for cheese making, etc.). In the guest room one notices the wool weavings (wall carpets and coverlets for the beds) and the raw silk and cotton towels, richly decorated with geometric, vegetal or zoomorphic motifs.
Not only the inventory of the house, but the household annexes too illustrate the preoccupation towards animal breeding, as the household includes also various hens or shelters for pigs, chickens and pigeons.
