Inside the Tver Mansion Where Mikhail Krug Was Murdered

Twenty-three years ago, the house where Mikhail Vorobyov, known as Krug, celebrated his wedding with his wife Irina, raised children, and composed songs, ceased to be a corner of family happiness. After the murder of the singer, it became a place of terrible memories that still make Irina Krug and her son Alexander shudder.

Irina Krug showed their family mansion in an interview with Ksenia Sobchak. The singer admitted that she rarely comes here and cannot stay in the house for long.

— I haven’t been here in a long time. I think it’s been over ten years. Since I left, I haven’t come back here. I can’t. All these memories, it’s impossible to live with them, — Irina Krug frankly admitted.

In the three-story mansion, almost nothing has changed. It is furnished in the style of the 2000s: paintings with landscapes, sliding door wardrobes that Mikhail himself once bought, and many animal statues.

On the first floor, there is a hall and a room with memorial souvenirs, and on the second floor — a bedroom and a children’s room. According to Irina, Krug himself bought the fashionable wide bed for that time, and she looked for suitable curtains that still hang there.

Adjacent to the bedroom is a giant bathtub with a jacuzzi and the peak of fashion in the 2000s — a shower cabin. The blue ceiling is adorned with diamonds, and the toilet is covered with an unusual mosaic.

— He also had a tape recorder here. He loved to turn it on when he was washing up. Here he composed many poems, — Krug said.

On the third floor, guests often gathered. It was here in 2001 that Mikhail and Irina Krug held their wedding. For the arrival of friends, a ping-pong table was set up here. Today, the floor is divided into two zones. In one — a work corner with a leather chair and a computer. In the other — a play area with a billiard table.

The fate of Mikhail Krug’s house is paradoxically reflected in the lines of his own song “Come to My House”. The doors in the house were indeed rarely locked. As Irina Krug recalls, Mikhail himself believed that nothing threatened him.

— We didn’t lock the door. I was always alone. I warned him about this, but he told me: “Who would touch me? I sing for them”, — the singer recalls her husband’s words.

Presumably, the criminals entered the house in advance and hid on the third floor when the owners were not home. They came in through the main entrance, looked around, and, finding no one, stayed to wait. According to Irina, after the shooting, as a result of which Krug was killed, the murderers just as unimpededly left through the veranda.

Now the doors of the mansion are just as often open. The sister of the singer gives tours there for fans of Krug’s work. The singer’s younger son hopes to eventually restore the house’s former coziness and gather family and friends here again, as his father once did.

— I want all the relatives to gather, so that this place is associated again not with some terrible events, but precisely with celebration, — dreams Alexander Krug.