ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

The house is of traditional 'brus' (block) type. Descriptions of the family descendants helped to reconstruct the original lay-out of the house and find out what different premises were used for. The living part of this block-type house is a five-wall framework with a longitudinal inner wall. (the wall divides both the first and the second floor into a living room and a guest room). The living rooms used to have traditional Russian stoves, while guest rooms had more fancy round Dutch stoves covered with white tiles (several pieces have been preserved. There were three storage cells in the first floor anteroom and some sleeping rooms and a lumber room in the second floor anteroom. Both anterooms were lit through windows. The household area used to have a sloping horse-ramp, attached to the southern facade of the house. After the last repair in 1980’s the house was replanned and divided into separate flats for individual families. Each floor was divided into four flats with the help of stud wooden partitions. The household area of the house had been already dismantled by this time. Instead the framed two-storey anteroom was attached to the back side of the house, which was used as a cesspool toilet.

The walls of the house were originally covered with plain bargeboards with protruding ends of the wall logs framed up as strippilasters.