A link at dangerousmeta!
led to a light browse thru the Library of Congress: The Meeting of Frontiers
which in turn led to an image of a log house in Tot'ma (enter in Search Terms)
Google Tot'ma and click on the District Area Study Museum
to find this image:


back to Google and on to Paul Quinn-Judge's erudite piece at Time.com on 'The Other Russia'
page 2 of which has this bit of early globalism:

Totma, however, was once a powerhouse of merchant Russia. Adventurers from the town opened up trade routes to Siberia, Alaska, China and the west coast of the United States. One Totma native, Ivan Kuskov, founded Fort Ross in California in 1812, and after years in North America, retired to his birthplace along with a wife, who by some accounts was a Native American. At that time Totma was a flourishing merchant center, dealing in furs, wax, silks and salt--the town's coat of arms has a black fox on it, an animal native to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, not to northern Russia.

A full reading of Quinn-Judge's piece puts the museum in a sadder perspective.
Then back to Google and a chance click on SuperTravelNet, a great map resource, worldwide, uncluttered and quick, which shows us that Totma is just southeast of Karelia. Which we have touched on before, here,
and earlier still, here.
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informant May 19, 2002(w/fixed links):
last year I was bathing in the Library of Congress photograph files and fell into the pool of the Prokudin-Gorski Collection. I was taken by the images from Karelia especially.
especially ones like this and like this
Then this year just now today, I found these wonderful songs from Karelia. from long ago, though of course Karelia itself is much older. and may in fact be the real setting for the Kalevala