ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

It is a so called ‘complex house’ of a ‘koshel’ type with two-row solid parallel connection of dwelling and working parts. The house represents parallelepiped which has a square foundation, covered with asymmetrical gable roof. The house is three-parted, based on a ground-floor and consists of two four-walled living rooms (‘izbas’) with an antechamber (‘seni’) between them. The ground-floor under the northern ‘izba’ has a separate entrance door outside, from the main facade side. The household quarters are two-storied (the cattle-sheds are situated on the first floor, and the shed is on the upper floor), the upper floor rests on solid wooden pillars (so-called ‘bulls’). The timbered ramp to the cattle-shed is perpendicular to the northern (gable) log wall. There is an additional dwelling part on the shed which is joined to the wall of the southern ‘izba’. There are three windows on the front and the main facades. The enterance is made up as a one-ascent porch on 4 pillars with a top locker-ground in the shape of boards put across. The dwelling part on the second floor has a suspended gallery from 3 sides, which rests on corbel of logs. The planked balusters of curvilinear outlines make up the railing of the suspended gallery.

The walls are built of logs using the traditional method with the logs’ ends protruding from the edges of the walls (‘v oblo’), the roof is planked without use of nails. The attic is lit through the windows in the gables. There is a balcony on the corbels on each side, fenced with rails with plank baluster.

The southern ‘izba’ windows have carved frames. The upper part is made in the shape of two shaped scrolls with a doll-like figure in the middle. The lower horizontal part is cut in the shape of ‘dentils’, below there are three rectangular rosettes, the central one is marked out by a rhombic panel. The lower part of the side frames is cut in the shape of rhombic drops. The rest of frames are cut of shaped planks. Fascia boards have relief geometric carving with pierced-through-wood carving in form of round holes and solar signs. Tetrahedral pillars of the porch have simple geometrical shape. The cornice of the porch has a traditional simple pierced-through-wood carving in the shape of round holes and regularly repeating semicircular and triangular elements. Locks which join dwelling and household quarters together are in the shape of semi-timbers with roundish endings. Ceilings have carved rossetes along the outside.

There are Russian stoves in the ‘izba’ and ‘gornitsa’ (the guest room). As the house is used for living now, the interior has been modernized (wallpaper, floor and ceiling painting, etc.).