March 24, 2006
Guest capacity 1-3 persons at a time although we've managed to accommodate groups of up to 12 in the past. If you require more comfort and privacy than we can offer during the travel season (May to September) the Staritsa Hotel is a viable option. In the winter however, except for the holidays, you get a private room and a horse assigned to you and nobody but you. Visit us in the winter!
Now my neighbours are willing to
accommodate travellers. As of November 2004 our comfortable guest
capacity is 10-12 persons.
Izba living
Minimalist level of creature comfort. Bathtub in the kitchen, warm water in buckets, running water in the stream down the hill, outhouse outside. Did you expect anything else for $25/day including unlimited rides?
The main house
build just after the war from logs prepared before and still showing
shrapnel marks from intense fighting in and near the village of Dubrovki
The
living room with a fireplace.
Guests are reading Pravda newspapers from the 70s. The local publisher gave us a few boxes to be used as firestarter. I'm caught in a dilemma: these papers are true fragments of history yet there is so much and no plausible use for them. Any ideas?
The guest room.
A place to sleep, no more and no less.
The
bathtub in the kitchen, like in the pioneer days America.
Authentic village style Russian sauna. Bring your own girls.
An additional
little house in the back, comfortably warm except in the middle of the
winter. Sleeps two upstairs and two down.
Not happy with any
of the above? A tent is a possibility from May to September. We also
have lots of caves in the hills over the Volga.
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But the price is right. $25 include a roof over your head, a fireplace to sit by, simple yet healthy and abundant food, and all you can handle riding on strong, willing and somewhat under-worked horses.