The Krylov house is a wooden house with a mezzanine built in the 1870s, which appeared in Prokudin-Gorsky's famous colour photograph ‘View of the ancient settlement with the main cathedral’ (1910).
A longitudinal mezzanine, a far-reaching gable with an arched niche, a balcony with an openwork fence, four beam windows of the main facade with carved platbands - these are the decorations of this elegant house, placed on a high terrace of the north-eastern slope of the Soborrnaya Gora (Cathedral Hill). A high porch is located in the north-west extension. An open veranda adjoins the house from the south with access to the lilac garden, which is terraced up to the middle of the height of Sobornaya Gora and is famous for its panoramic views of the Volga.
The Krylov House is the top of the ‘Plios five-storey building’ visible only from the water, which consists of three houses climbing one after another up the slope of Sobornaya Gora. At the bottom is the Art Nouveau House, in the middle is the House of the Seven Windows.
The Krylov House was revived by the efforts of the Hidden Russia project in 2004. From the outside, the house still looks exactly as it did in Prokudin-Gorsky's photograph, but inside, the decorators (Natalia and Alexei Shevtsov) have created an interior from scratch that delights everyone who stays here.