The incredibly luxurious homes and country residences of the oligarchs simply amaze the imagination, and I’d simply rather not say anything about their cost. For example, Kadyrov’s “dacha” cost him only $310 million, and our president is used to getting to his residence on his own yacht. Be sure to read further and look at all the luxury that some residents of our country can afford.
Palace of the Vasiliev Brothers
The Vasiliev brothers were born in the village of Vyritsa, Leningrad Region. At first they ran video stores, then they transported cars from Europe for sale in Russia, and they ran car markets. Sergey Vasiliev controlled and controls the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal, the largest bunkering company in the Seaport of St. Petersburg, with a 15% share of the volume of oil products transshipped in the Baltic.
The Vasilievs generously helped their native Vyritsa, where the brothers still live, despite having real estate in St. Petersburg - for example, they restored the wooden Church of the Kazan Mother of God, which is popular with tourists. It was in this village on the banks of the Oredezh River that the brothers decided to build their estate. The interesting thing about this estate is that it is a smaller copy of the Catherine Palace - the famous royal residence in Pushkin. The patterns on the cast-iron grate, the golden domes of the chapel, the sky blue color and white statues - a lot here reminds us of Catherine’s.
There is only conflicting information about the interior: ceilings 14 meters high, marble staircases, doors made of tortoiseshells, mosaic marble floors with a total area of more than 600 square meters. m, black marble Atlantean knights. According to the author of the project, architect Igor Gremitsky, exclusively natural materials were used to decorate the palace, including 19 types of marble from Italy.
Yakunin's dacha
This Saturday, a post appeared on an entertainment portal, the author of which claimed that he participated in the construction of the residence for the head of the Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin - he worked on the so-called smart home there.
According to him, on several tens of hectares of forest near Domodedovo, private lakes were dug, a garage for 15 cars was built, a separate box for a luxury limousine, one and a half kilometers of underground passages were built to the garage, there was a private cinema, a bath complex (1400 sq. m) with sauna, Russian, Turkish baths, salt room, swimming pool, separate massage room, etc.
Then a certain builder Alexey, who allegedly worked there, spoke on RSN. “There were 300 Vietnamese people working there, and they killed all the fish there with electric fishing rods. External finishing – Italian marble. Bathhouse - three buildings, 14 by 14 meters, Italian furniture, marble bar counter, fireplace, stained glass windows. It is made of glass, there are no walls as such, locker rooms, showers, everything is very expensive. Swimming pool 50 meters in the house. There is a storage room for fur coats and a refrigerator. The small house is his son’s, a guest house, and the main one is his. There is a prayer room and a chapel there. It seems that Metrostroy dug ponds there for 150 million. It’s decorated with gold tiles, and the room is very large - a hammam, a bathhouse, a steam room, a panorama to look at the forest,” Alexey said about what he saw near Domodedovo.
Shuvalov's residence
Igor Shuvalov, who has served as Deputy Prime Minister since 2008, is the wealthiest member of the government according to his 2012 declaration. His income amounted to about 226 million rubles (about 7 million dollars). The spouse's income is slightly less.
In his declaration, the official indicated that he, together with his wife and three minor children, rents a house with an area of 4,174 square meters. meters. The residence of the Deputy Prime Minister is located next to the innovation city Skolkovo (Moscow) on the territory of the former dacha of Brezhnev-era Politburo member Mikhail Suslov (state dacha Zarechye-4), is jealously guarded and surrounded by a high fence. Natalya Pelevina, in her blog on the website of the radio station Echo of Moscow, talks about a “palace” with an area of 1,500 square meters. meters, built in the shape of the letter P. On a plot of 7.5 hectares, according to Pelevina, there are also indoor tennis courts, a swimming pool, luxurious gardens “with shrubs trimmed in the Versailles style,” a greenhouse for exotic plants, separate houses for servants and security And so on.
Kadyrov's residence
On the banks of the Sunzha River in Grozny stands another very impressive mansion. The official residence of the head of the Chechen Republic with an area of 260 thousand square meters. meters cost the budget, according to Novaya Gazeta, about 10 billion rubles ($310.8 million).
Novaya Gazeta notes that 48 million rubles – 360 thousand square meters – were allocated for the improvement of the territory of the residence alone. m of lawn, 77 thousand sq. m of flower beds, 16 thousand roses, 14 thousand sq. m of curly pruned bushes, hedges, etc. About 36 million rubles have been allocated for utility services for the residence.
Nikolai Uskov, head of the Snob project, after a meeting of the club of editors of central media in Grozny, eloquently described what he saw: “On a huge square in the middle of ideal lawns, reminiscent of the emerald waves of golf courses, stood a monumental palace in the Ottoman style, next to it was a copy of the sacred Kaaba, framed by minarets. […] Among the picturesque hills and Chechen family towers stretching to the left, a small farm is hidden. A bear cub lives with her in a cage, chickens and turkeys walk on the grass, roosters crow, a stream gurgles, flowing into an artificial pond.”
Medvedev Palace
In February 2011, Novaya Gazeta published an article suggesting that a personal dacha for ex-president and current prime minister Dmitry Medvedev was being built on the territory of the Bolshoi Utrish nature reserve (Krasnodar Territory). The mansion in Bolshoi Utrish was to be equipped with a marina and a helipad. Two wide roads leading to it were specially planned (according to the publication, these are the security requirements of the Federal Security Service). In its architecture, the “Medvedev’s dacha” project is similar to the so-called Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik.
The land on which the palace is located has been leased since July 2008 by the forestry department of the Krasnodar region to the Dar regional non-profit project fund for the construction of a sports and recreation complex there. For an area of 120 hectares, the fund will transfer 15 million rubles every year for 49 years.
According to Novaya Gazeta, the Dar Fund Management Company was located at the same address as the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives (FSCI) of the President’s wife Svetlana Medvedeva, the companies had the same telephone number, and the general director of both organizations was the same at different times and the same person (Olga Travina). The Presidential Administration stated that it has nothing to do with the construction.
Tkachev's dacha
In the Blue Bay, near the village of Bzhid, Dzhubga urban settlement, Tuapse district, Krasnodar Territory, there is an object that some consider to be the residence of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev.
According to Rosreestr, part of these lands actually belongs to the governor. However, according to environmentalists, the area enclosed by a fence (about 7 hectares) significantly exceeds the area of land owned by Tkachev (1 hectare).
It was from the fence around the facility that the scandal began to flare up. In February - March 2011, activists of the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus carried out actions against the seizure of forest lands and coastal strips, were detained by law enforcement officers and sentenced to various terms of administrative arrest (from 7 to 15 days). A request from ecologists sent to the Forestry Department of the Krasnodar Territory received an answer: there is no fence around this area.
Patriarch's Dacha
In February 2011, on the Black Sea coast north of the village of Divnomorskoye (Krasnodar Territory), the same activists discovered what they said was illegal construction. At least 10 hectares of forest where Pitsunda pine, protected by law, grows, is surrounded by a three-meter fence. On the territory, according to ecologists, there is a “strange, pretentious structure - either a mansion or a temple - this quadrangular building is crowned with a dome with a cross. An absolutely unimaginable hybrid of a palace and a temple.”
The Russian Orthodox Church confirmed that this object belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate, but noted that it is not the patriarch’s dacha that is being built near Gelendzhik, but a spiritual center. The territory of the spiritual center was to house a meeting room of the Holy Synod, premises for the stay of members of the Synod, administrative and management services of the Moscow Patriarchate, work rooms, conference rooms, press center premises, etc. In the summer of 2012, the fence around the mysterious object grew significantly in height, became much longer and was equipped with night surveillance cameras and an alarm system. Later, Patriarch Kirill consecrated a temple on the territory of the spiritual center and held a meeting of the Holy Synod there.
Putin's Palace
On the Black Sea coast near the village of Praskoveevka in the Gelendzhik region there is a “recreation complex”, which, according to rumors, belongs to Putin.
Businessman Sergei Kolesnikov claims that, although the project was envisaged as a private residence of Nikolai Shamalov, the construction of the palace was carried out by Spetsstroy of Russia, and the Federal Security Service supervised it, guarded it and gave all instructions. According to Kolesnikov, the complex occupied an area of “tens of thousands of square meters” and was equipped with “a casino, a winter theater, a summer amphitheater, a chapel, swimming pools, a sports complex, helipads, landscaped parks, tea houses, premises for service personnel and other technical buildings "
In the spring of 2011, Shamalov’s company Indokopas, together with the residence, was sold to a Cypriot company, the beneficiary of which is businessman Alexander Ponomarenko. Bloggers suggest that the palace is the private residence of Vladimir Putin. In particular, according to their statement, on August 6-7, 2011, three large yachts (one of them was similar to the Olympia yacht, which, according to bloggers, Putin uses) and two patrol ships were seen in the area of the residence. A few days before, law enforcement agencies cleared the nearby coastline of tents and checked the passports of citizens vacationing in them.
Subsequently, Vladimir Kozhin, manager of the affairs of the President of the Russian Federation, denied reports about the construction of a residence for Vladimir Putin.
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Vasiliev Sergey Anatolievich(born July 18, 1965, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) - Chairman of the Board of Directors and co-owner of the investment group "".
In 1990 he graduated from the Faculty of Aerodynamics and Flight Engineering of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). After graduation, he worked as an engineer at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) named after. Zhukovsky.
Since 1991, he worked at Tveruniversalbank, first as director of the Moscow branch, later as vice president for managing branches of the Moscow region, and in 1993 he became first vice president. In July 1996, after the introduction of a temporary administration in connection with the crisis at Tveruniversalbank, he was removed from office.
In 1996-1997, he was the head of the debt market department of the joint-stock commercial bank International Finance Company (IFC). From October 1997 to April 1999 - Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of JSCB MFK. Since April 1999, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian Funds investment group.
Married. Has four children: three sons and a daughter. He is interested in collecting lifetime collections of Silver Age poets, and also restores the estate of the princes Kurakins in the Tver region.
Vasiliev Sergey Vasilievich(born December 5, 1955, the village of Vyritsa, Leningrad Region, RSFSR, USSR) is a reputable Russian businessman, co-owner of one of the largest Russian oil products transshipment terminals in the Baltic region.
There is no information about education. He was first convicted in 1974 for rape to five years in prison, of which he served only three (he was released on parole). In 1986, he was convicted for the second time under the article “fraud” for six years with confiscation of property. Released in 1989.
After his release, together with his brothers Alexander and Boris Vasilyev, he controlled video salons and the so-called thimble shops in St. Petersburg. He was engaged in driving cars from Europe to Russia. In the early 2000s, he became a co-owner of the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal.
In May 2006, an attempt was made on Vasiliev. On the Petrograd side of St. Petersburg, his armored Rolls-Royce Phantom was fired upon. One of the guards, 32-year-old Roman Ukharov, died at the scene of the crime, two more were wounded. Vasilyev, with serious injuries, was hospitalized at the military field surgery clinic of the Military Medical Academy, where, according to media reports, he was visited by a doctor who was then working in the mayor’s office of St. Petersburg. The organizer of this crime, according to investigators, was an authoritative St. Petersburg businessman (Kumarin), who, together with his accomplices, intended to seize the St. Petersburg oil terminal.
According to media reports, Vasiliev is also associated with the Tambov organized crime group. According to a former FBI employee, who in the early 2000s worked for the secret service of Prince Albert II of Monaco, Robert Eringer, Vasiliev controls the Sotrama company. Sotrama (renamed CINPIT) is associated with the Tambov criminal group from St. Petersburg and Vladimir Putin personally. The firm was part of a network of oil trading companies created throughout Europe by Putin and his cronies to remove money from Russia and launder it by investing in European real estate.
In his native village on the banks of the Oredezh River, Vasiliev built a small copy of the Catherine Palace in Pushkin. Restored the Church of the Kazan Mother of God.
I learned about Vyritsa literally a week ago, from dima1989
. By this time, I already had train tickets on the table for the route Moscow - Smolensk - St. Petersburg - Moscow, and I was thinking about what to devote the day to in the Northern capital. The tip to Vyritsa came in handy - this village immediately intrigued me.
After all, there is: a lot of wooden Art Nouveau (including two churches), beautiful nature, an intra-village railway, a Baroque palace not listed in any reference book and a community of spiritual Christian teetotalers Ioann Churikov - a fragment of that system of Orthodox sects, which included the famous runners and Khlysty before Revolutions (45 photos, I couldn’t do less).
Besides, I was very lucky with the weather - I’m talking about frosty landscapes.
Formally, Vyritsa is an urban-type settlement in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region, 60 km south of St. Petersburg (trains from Vitebsky station). Its population is 10.5 thousand people, but in fact Vyritsa is a gigantic holiday village with an area of 50 square kilometers, that is, approximately 10-15 km in length and 3-5 km in width. For St. Petersburg, Vyritsa is like Malakhovka or Nakhabino for Moscow, and in the summer its population reaches several tens of thousands of people.
But in winter the dachas sleep.
Vyritsa is a gigantic conglomerate of thousands of dacha plots of varying degrees of luxury, divided by a grid of absolutely straight streets and avenues. Pine and spruce trees rise high above the plots:
And it’s extremely difficult to navigate in Vyritsa: almost the same terrain throughout the entire territory (straight streets, dachas, fences, pine trees), tall trees behind which no landmarks are visible, and even complete desertion in winter - you can get lost here no worse than in the forest .
Several hundred wooden dachas of pre-revolutionary construction are scattered across the vast space of the dacha village - the rise of Vyritsa began in the 1880s, Rozanov, Likhachev, Bianki vacationed here, and the writer Ivan Efremov was born here.
It is pointless to specifically search for modern dachas in Vyritsa - the spaces are too huge, but regardless of your route, dachas will come across periodically.
What is in the frames above was filmed a 10-minute walk from the station along the main street, and this house is located behind the Churikov community:
A couple of interesting houses outside Oredezh, in the so-called Princely Valley (and Vyritsa is divided into several “districts”):
Just don't know where:
Many modern dachas look quite worthy of modern ones, but I have not found the most beautiful dachas (for example, the former dacha of the Bumagins near Oredezh).
In winter, these areas are empty - although smoke curls over some of the houses. There is a dog in almost every yard, and there is loud barking throughout the village. In winter it’s quite scary here: there are very few people, and mostly all sorts of workers, watchmen, and also thieves.
Vyritsa station - station and House of Culture:
Shop near the station in a Stalinist building:
Vyritsa is divided by railway into two parts: western and eastern. The western one is about 4/5 of the Vyritsa area; it takes more than an hour to walk to its far end. This part of the village lies along three main highways.
Communal Avenue runs through the center:
The bus in the foreground is a commuter bus; there is no completely internal transport in Vyritsa, and this is very difficult, given the distances. However, taxis are cheap here - 50 rubles in the village.
However, Vyritsa has a unique facility for urban settlements - an intra-village railway. From Vyritsa station a single-track branch runs west to Poselok station, which forms the southern border of Vyritsa. St. Petersburg electric trains run along it (every half an hour to an hour, with a large “window” between 11 and 15 pm) from the Vitebsk station, but are there still so many urban transport stations, the railways are used to connect different parts of them?
Between Vyritsa and the Village there are 3 platforms without a name (only numbers), the Village itself is a dead-end station.
I left St. Petersburg at 8 am, was in Poselok at 9:30, at 9:41 the train went back and I reached the 3rd platform. And it was unbearably cold (and the locals were much colder than me), but I started the long journey on foot. After all, a lot of interesting things are lost in the conglomerate of dachas, and the main direction of my route was supposed to be the third Vyritsa highway - the Oredezh River:
In such frosts, Oredezh is so frozen that it’s not only possible to walk on the ice - it’s covered in tire tracks. Along the coast there is a luxurious coniferous forest, and rare, rare climbs, and mostly the coast is covered by private property:
In some places the Epiphany baths remained on the ice - the water was frozen, but the ice was not yet covered with snow, and there were ice crosses at the edge:
The farthest attraction from the station in Vyritsa is the baroque Vasilyevsky Palace:
Beautiful? And clearly something in the spirit of the St. Petersburg suburbs. Why is so little known about him?
Because this palace was built in 2005-2006! Not restored or recreated - but built from scratch. This is the property of Sergei Vasiliev, a St. Petersburg oligarch, owner of an oil terminal. A native of Vyritsa, having become rich, he erected a palace in his native village:
Upon closer inspection, it seemed to me that the details of the palace’s design look somewhat artificial:
Over the 3 years of its existence, the palace has managed to acquire rumors - in particular, they say that Vasiliev bought himself the original of the Amber Room and paid for the version of its death in Königsberg. Of course, this is only a legend - but the interiors of the palace (scans from the magazine "Salon", No. 9, 2009) are available on the Internet (the photo is of course not mine, taken from the link!):
In general, an excellent occasion for expressing a civic position. But I ask you right away - I don’t want to discuss “justice” here. I prefer to admire the palace - I think the most beautiful of the New Russian villas - than to count other people's money.
From the palace I made my way to the shore, and then wandered through the streets for another hour and a half, admiring the winter fairy tale. I had to walk diagonally again to the shore of Oredezh and the wooden Kazan Church, but finding the road turned out to be almost impossible. I was escorted by two rare-looking men in old sheepskin coats, and besides, by their own admission, illiterate. Finally, they asked for money for marijuana. Perhaps they were thieves.
The Kazan Church is like a cathedral for Vyritsa:
It was built in 1913-14, for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, at the intersection of modernity and traditions of the Russian North:
A fabulous tower, which is even difficult to perceive as a temple.
There are many different buildings around the church, for example a church shop:
And the chapel over the grave of Seraphim Vyritsky:
The Kazan Church in Vyritsa is a major center of pilgrimage. Seraphim Vyritsky lived in the first half of the twentieth century (became a monk before the Revolution, died after the war), was famous for his generosity and honesty (for example, once a thief broke into his house, but at the gate he collided with the returning Seraphim, dropped the bag... and Seraphim helped the thief collect the things stolen from him and let him go in peace), later - with insight and the ability to heal. Seraphim spent his last years in Vyritsa, even then pilgrims came to him for help, neither the NKVD nor the Nazis could harm him, and largely thanks to him, Vyritsa survived the occupation relatively easily.
The Chapel of Seraphim is very beautiful: a stone tombstone, a wooden shrine, an icon surrounded by fresh foliage... But I was embarrassed to take photographs there, although no one had seen it.
From the Kazan Church, a few more minutes walk to the shore of Oredezh. Having gone there, I decided to stick to the river so as not to get lost again. Along the very edge of the high bank there was a narrow cornice path, which I followed. Soon I came across the abandoned Wittgenstein Hunting Palace:
In the 19th century, Vyritsa belonged to the noble family of Wittgenstein, and it was they who began to develop dacha farming in Vyritsa in the 1880s. Somewhere in the quarters of the village, the Wittgenstein Land Office has been preserved - and it all began with the Hunting Castle, the oldest of the Vyritsa dachas.
A little further away, stilted pines grow on the shore:
Why their roots are higher than ground level - I don’t know. Probably, the shore is gradually sliding away, but the pines are still standing.
Natural Martians!
So I walked along the shore of Oredezh, sometimes descending onto the ice, for several more kilometers. On the way I came to the old dam of the Vyritskaya hydroelectric station, which operated in 1948-72:
Small hydroelectric power stations in the North-West, built in the 1920s-40s, are a separate topic from the time of the first five-year plans. Their closest analogue in the Moscow region is the peat mining of Meshchera. There are hydroelectric power stations in Ivangorod, Kingisepp, Porkhov, Siverskoy, Vyritsa, Volkhov, Sviritsa. The Volkhov hydroelectric power station is also the oldest of the GOELRO plans.
From the dam I went out onto Communal Avenue. It’s difficult to put into words how pleasant it was to walk on the asphalt after the snowdrifts and ice! After another 15 minutes, I went out to the station, rested a little and went behind the station.
The eastern side of Vyritsa is approximately 1/5 of the area of the village. However, if the western half is almost exclusively dachas, the eastern half is home to a permanent population of urban settlements:
There are two wooden churches of different faiths here. A kilometer southeast of the station is the Peter and Paul Church (1908):
In the 1930s, it was the main church of the True Orthodox Christians, or Catacombs, in the Leningrad region. These were one of the last schismatics who separated from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1920s due to the fact that they recognized the “power of the Antichrist,” that is, the Bolsheviks. Many individual catacomb sects have become very radicalized, some have gone very far from the canon - in general, a repetition of the history of the Old Believers in miniature. Almost no catacombs have survived to this day. Nothing here reminds us of them anymore.
Church of John of Kronstadt (2005) next to Peter and Paul Church - was built as a temporary one while the main one was being repaired:
If you go from the station to the northeast (and a straight street leads there from the church), you will come out to a huge blue tower above Oredezh:
This is the community of Christian teetotalers Brother John Churikov - one of the few surviving communities of “spiritual Christians”. The latter are not Old Believers, but the general name of several unrelated Orthodox sects. The spiritual Christians included the Khlys, famous in 19th-century literature, the lesser-known runners, eunuchs (who practiced ritual castration), Molokans and Doukhobors (these have survived - several villages in Georgia and Armenia, communities in the USA). Teetotalers are one of these movements, in those days insignificant in scale. However, the majority of spiritual Christian sects did not survive Soviet rule and disappeared into history.
At the end of the 19th century, wanderer Ivan Churikov came to St. Petersburg from the Samara province. He lived in shelters, earned his bread as needed, read the Gospels aloud - and it was soon discovered that he knew how to cure people from drunkenness through words (conversations and quotes from the Bible). Soon Churikov succeeded in this - kilometer-long queues lined up for him, he administered communion with sugar, not wine, and created the doctrine of Holy Sobriety...
Churikov himself considered himself Orthodox, but many of those healed by him from drunkenness soon declared him the Second Christ, and nicknamed him Brother John. The community rallied around Churikov, in 1906 a house was built in Vyritsa (which was named the Capital of World Sobriety), in the 1920s the community turned into the Labor Commune named after. Brother Churikov:
Churikov took on the role of head of the community. Even before the Revolution, he was excommunicated from the church, and in 1938 he was repressed and died in Butyrka prison. The community was dispersed, the house was taken away.... And yet the Churikovites survived Soviet power, gathering in apartments and holding conversations, since within the community the fight against drunkenness was carried out successfully. In 1992, the house in Vyritsa was returned to them, but now there are two Churikov communities. “Moderates” gather in the Fedorovsky Church in St. Petersburg near the Moscow Station and consider Churikov simply a saint, seeking his canonization from the Russian Orthodox Church. In Vyritsa live Orthodox Churikovites who consider Brother John the second Christ:
The community was governed by elders, the oldest of them was Alexander Sinnikov, who also knew Churikov himself, but he died in 2007. The Churikovites are very friendly, they let me inside, told me about their philosophy and allowed me to take photographs. On the ground floor of the blue tower there is a prayer room:
Here at 14:00 on Sundays, conversations (not prayer services) and stories of healings are held. The Churikovites have no priests; communication with God occurs through the burning of notes - this is one of the foundations of the faith of spiritual Christians: the Holy Spirit can incarnate in people.
In the center of the iconostasis is the image of Brother John:
Churikov’s people gave me several pieces of paper with prayers and three lumps of sugar in a paper wrapper - “So that life would be sweet,” as Churikov said. The community has its own website, which contains a lot of interesting things (for example, the prayer Indictment of the Mind on Drunkenness), but here is another view from Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich.
And I myself, as an amateur ethnographer, am neither for nor against such a community. What interests me is that it exists. And to this day, the inhabitants of the blue tower do not drink, do not smoke and do not swear, but they work hard. I myself am a teetotaler, I haven’t gotten drunk for many years and I can go for months without a drop of alcohol, I don’t smoke and I don’t swear. In general, I feel good in the Orthodoxy of the Russian Orthodox Church.
From Vyritsa I took the train to St. Petersburg, walked around the city a little, and at dusk I reached the Frozen Sea. Behind us there were about 10-15 kilometers of walking through snow and ice in 20-degree frost.
The richest Russians are accustomed to relaxing in huge mansions, which are not inferior in decoration to the royal palaces. Kadyrov’s dacha, for example, costs $310 million, and Putin sails to his “recreation complex” on a yacht.
Photos of the palaces and estates of influential people in Russia show that you definitely can’t stop someone from living beautifully. The Elephant portal selected eight of the most luxurious “architectural masterpieces” belonging to officials and businessmen.
The Vasiliev brothers were born in the village of Vyritsa, Leningrad Region. At first they ran video stores, then they transported cars from Europe for sale in Russia, and they ran car markets. Sergey Vasiliev controlled and controls the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal - the largest bunkering company in the Seaport of St. Petersburg, with a 15% share of the volume of oil products transshipped in the Baltic.
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The Vasilievs generously helped their native Vyritsa, where the brothers still live, despite having real estate in St. Petersburg - for example, they restored the wooden Church of the Kazan Mother of God, which is popular with tourists. It was in this village on the banks of the Oredezh River that the brothers decided to build their estate. The interesting thing about this estate is that it is a smaller copy of the Catherine Palace - the famous royal residence in Pushkin. The patterns on the cast-iron lattice, the golden domes of the chapel, the sky blue color and white statues - a lot here reminds of Catherine.
There is only conflicting information about the interior: ceilings 14 meters high, marble staircases, doors made of tortoiseshells, mosaic marble floors with a total area of more than 600 square meters. m, black marble Atlantean knights. According to the author of the project, architect Igor Gremitsky, exclusively natural materials were used to decorate the palace, including 19 types of marble from Italy.
This Saturday, a post appeared on the entertainment portal YaPlakal, the author of which claimed that he participated in the construction of the residence for the head of the Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, and worked on the so-called smart home there.
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According to him, on several tens of hectares of forest near Domodedovo, private lakes were dug, a garage for 15 cars was built, a separate box for a luxury limousine, one and a half kilometers of underground passages were built to the garage, there was a private cinema, a bath complex (1400 sq. m) with sauna, Russian, Turkish baths, salt room, swimming pool, separate massage room, etc.
Then a certain builder Alexey, who allegedly worked there, spoke on RSN. “There were 300 Vietnamese people working there, and they killed all the fish there with electric fishing rods. External finishing - Italian marble. Bathhouse - three buildings, 14 by 14 meters, Italian furniture, marble bar counter, fireplace, stained glass windows. It is made of glass, there are no walls as such, locker rooms, showers, everything is very expensive. Swimming pool 50 meters in the house. There is a storage room for fur coats and a refrigerator. The small house is the son’s, the guest house, and the main one is his. There is a prayer room and a chapel there. It seems that Metrostroy dug ponds there for 150 million. It’s decorated with gold tiles, and the room is very large - a hammam, a bathhouse, a steam room, a panorama to look at the forest,” Alexey said about what he saw near Domodedovo.
Igor Shuvalov, who has served as Deputy Prime Minister since 2008, is the wealthiest member of the government according to his 2012 declaration. His income amounted to about 226 million rubles (about 7 million dollars). The spouse's income is slightly less.
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In his declaration, the official indicated that he, together with his wife and three minor children, rents a house with an area of 4,174 square meters. meters. The residence of the Deputy Prime Minister is located next to the innovation city Skolkovo (Moscow) on the territory of the former dacha of Brezhnev-era Politburo member Mikhail Suslov (state dacha Zarechye-4), is jealously guarded and surrounded by a high fence. Natalya Pelevina, in her blog on the website of the radio station Echo of Moscow, talks about a “palace” with an area of 1,500 square meters. meters, built in the shape of the letter P. On a plot of 7.5 hectares, according to Pelevina, there are also indoor tennis courts, a swimming pool, luxurious gardens “with shrubs trimmed in the Versailles style,” a greenhouse for exotic plants, separate houses for servants and security And so on.
On the banks of the Sunzha River in Grozny stands another very impressive mansion. The official residence of the head of the Chechen Republic with an area of 260 thousand square meters. meters cost the budget, according to Novaya Gazeta, about 10 billion rubles ($310.8 million).
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Novaya Gazeta notes that 48 million rubles - 360 thousand square meters - were allocated for the improvement of the territory of the residence alone. m of lawn, 77 thousand sq. m of flower beds, 16 thousand roses, 14 thousand sq. m of curly pruned bushes, hedges, etc. About 36 million rubles have been allocated for utility services for the residence.
Nikolai Uskov, head of the Snob project, after a meeting of the club of editors of central media in Grozny, eloquently described what he saw: “On a huge square in the middle of ideal lawns, reminiscent of the emerald waves of golf courses, stood a monumental palace in the Ottoman style, next to it was a copy of the sacred Kaaba, framed by minarets. […] Among the picturesque hills and Chechen family towers stretching to the left, a small farm is hidden. A bear cub lives with her in a cage, chickens and turkeys walk on the grass, roosters crow, a stream gurgles, flowing into an artificial pond.”
In February 2011, Novaya Gazeta published an article suggesting that a personal dacha for ex-president and current prime minister Dmitry Medvedev was being built on the territory of the Bolshoi Utrish nature reserve (Krasnodar Territory). The mansion in Bolshoi Utrish was to be equipped with a marina and a helipad. Two wide roads leading to it were specially planned (according to the publication, these are the security requirements of the Federal Security Service). In its architecture, the “Medvedev’s dacha” project is similar to the so-called Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik.
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The land on which the palace is located has been leased since July 2008 by the forestry department of the Krasnodar region to the Dar regional non-profit project fund for the construction of a sports and recreation complex there. For an area of 120 hectares, the fund will transfer 15 million rubles every year for 49 years.
According to Novaya Gazeta, the Dar Fund Management Company was located at the same address as the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives (FSCI) of the President’s wife Svetlana Medvedeva, the companies had the same telephone number, and the general director of both organizations was the same at different times and the same person (Olga Travina). The Presidential Administration stated that it has nothing to do with the construction.
In the Blue Bay, near the village of Bzhid, Dzhubga urban settlement, Tuapse district, Krasnodar Territory, there is an object that some consider to be the residence of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev.
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According to Rosreestr, part of these lands actually belongs to the governor. However, according to environmentalists, the area enclosed by a fence (about 7 hectares) significantly exceeds the area of land owned by Tkachev (1 hectare).
St. Petersburg businessman Sergei Vasiliev, known for his high-profile assassination attempt and for owning a replica of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace, appears to be selling off his collection of exclusive cars. The most expensive of them is estimated at almost 80 million rubles.
In Petersburg Two exclusive cars are up for sale. One of them is a 2010 Lamborghini Reventon soft top. Only five copies of this model were produced. For a car with a mileage of 999 km they are asking 78.8 million rubles. The second car is a 2007 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe. Its mileage is 6.5 thousand km, the price is 12 million rubles. Advertisements for the sale of cars are posted on the auto.ru server, and they have already been viewed more than 200 thousand times.
Both cars are sold by the same person. He told the site that he was an intermediary, and the owner of the cars was a St. Petersburg resident who was selling his collection of cars. The owner of perhaps the most luxurious car park in St. Petersburg is entrepreneur Sergei Vasiliev. According to media reports, he owned five Rolls-Royces alone. Sergei Vasiliev himself never gave interviews to journalists.
But his car collection was visible to any passerby walking along Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. The cars were parked in the courtyard of the House of the Emir of Bukhara (Kamennoostrovsky, 44b). When they left the yard, security blocked the sidewalk. Among these cars was a Lamborghini, very similar to the one that is now up for sale.
Sergey Vasiliev is considered a “reputable” entrepreneur and co-owner of the St. Petersburg oil terminal. His name appeared in news reports on May 4, 2006. That day, Sergei Vasiliev was driving one of his Rolls-Royces along Levashovsky Prospekt when his car was fired at from machine guns. One of Sergei Vasiliev’s guards died, but the entrepreneur himself miraculously survived. The former “night governor of St. Petersburg” Vladimir Barsukov is accused of organizing the assassination attempt.
Soon Sergei Vasiliev again became a St. Petersburg celebrity: one of the architectural magazines published photographs of Vasiliev’s mansion in Vyritsa. The house reproduces the historical Tsarskoye Selo residence of Catherine the Great and is distinguished by excessive luxury.
Why Sergei Vasiliev decided to break up with their cars, unknown. However, at the same time, his brother Boris Vasiliev, apparently, is also doing this. The Maserati MC12 sports car is up for sale for 33.49 million rubles - the only one in Russia, the sale announcement states. The phone number indicated in the ad belongs to the intermediary seller, who refused to provide any information about the owner of the car, noting only that the car had been up for sale for about a year. In blogs and the media, Boris Vasiliev was always called the owner of the car.
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