In Russia, the history of the bed begins in the 17th century. Peter I greatly contributed to the popularization of this furniture. At that time, only the nobility had beds. Ordinary peasants continued to sleep on wooden decks and stoves. This situation remained until the 19th century.

Metal beds appeared in Russia, a country of endless forests, because of an almost insurmountable problem — bedbugs. These insects were a real nightmare for people in Russia. The bedbugs lived in wooden furniture and haunted people. The insects could not survive only in metal beds. The metal remained cold at any time of the year, and bedbugs love warmth. The iron bed immediately evokes associations with the unpretentious interior of the times of socialism. Such beds were everywhere: in kindergartens, pioneer camps, medical institutions, and army barracks. However, a metal bed can also be a real work of art.

Literary works include the following references to metal beds.

Alexander Pushkin “The Queen of Spades”:

Fyodor Tyutchev “The Fugitive”:

The interior of the “Room of a young woman of the bourgeois class” in the Novorossiysk Historical Museum-Reserve presents a metal single bed with painted headboard and footboard. This type of bed was mass produced in the second half of the 19th century. At that time, the set of furniture decorations included attributes of rural and shepherd life, garden and wild flowers, tree branches, garlands and bouquets tied with ribbons. This bed is decorated in accordance with the fashion. The medallions on the headboard and footboard depict a rural landscape in warm yellow-green tones.