Revived house
«Krylov House»
The Krylov House, visible in the pre-revolutionary Prokudin-Gorsky colour photo, has been restored as part of the Hidden Russia project. Its elegant details, including mezzanine, gable, balcony and windows with carved platbands, create a unique view of Sobornaya Gora and the Volga River. The recreated interior attracts famous guests.

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. 

You can stay overnight in this house!

The Krylov House - a modern look (photo by Alyona Zhandarova for Forbes)
The Krylov House (photo by A. Zhandarova for Forbes)
The Krylov House before restoration (photo 2003)
The Krylovs' House on the slope of Sobornaya Gora (photo by A. Zhandarova for Forbes)
The Krylovs' House in Prokudin-Gorsky's photograph (1910)
Pre-revolutionary postcard from our collection
One of the terraces of the garden of the Krylov House (photo by Y. Baturina)

Krylov House on the map

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Revitalized house
«Art Nouveau House»
The house, built in 1914, is the only Art Nouveau building in Plios. With its restoration in the early 2000s began a long history of the Hidden Russia project. Among the first guests of the revitalized house were members of the British royal family Prince and...
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Revived house
«The House of the Seven Windows»
The house, built in the beginning of the XXI century within the framework of the Hidden Russia project, recreates a traditional Plios manor house of the middle of the XIX century.
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Revived house
«The House with the Mezzanine»
The house with a cross-shaped mezzanine reproduces the basic features of the merchant's mansion that once stood here. And allows you to understand how the Levitan House Museum looked like before the revolution.
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Revived house
«Gromov House»
An architectural monument, an outbuilding of the city estate of large Plios landowners Moiseevs, built in the first quarter of the XIX century in the style of mature classicism.
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Revived house
«Tolstoy House (The Dragon House)»
This old log house was carefully restored and equipped in 2007 within the framework of the Hidden Russia project. The attention of passers-by is attracted by the openwork gutters and spectacular platbands in which stylised dragons guarding the house hide.
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Hidden Russia

Plios revitalisation project

In Plios we have defined and implemented a strategy of reanimation and development of an ancient small town. We preserve historical buildings, fill them with new life and create a high-level hospitality infrastructure. At the same time we are engaged in preserving and developing the intangible cultural heritage: local cuisine, traditions, knowledge.
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Hidden Russia

This old Russian town is associated with clean air, incredibly beautiful nature and rustic silence. It is no coincidence that Plios has long been a centre of attraction for creative and outstanding people.
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