Vasiliev's house. Luxury properties of famous compatriots

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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, while Putin sails to his "recreation complex" on a yacht.

Photographs of palaces and estates of influential people in Russia show that you definitely cannot forbid someone to live beautifully. Portal Elephant selected eight of the most luxurious "architectural masterpieces" owned by officials and businessmen.

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Despite the presence of real estate in St. Petersburg, the Vasilievs generously helped their native Vyritsa, where the brothers still live, 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. What is interesting about this estate is that it is a reduced copy of the Catherine Palace - the famous royal residence in Pushkin. The patterns on the cast-iron grating, the golden domes of the chapel, the sky-blue color and white statues - a lot here reminds of Catherine's.

There is only contradictory information about the interior: ceilings 14 meters high, marble stairs, doors made of tortoise shells, 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, only natural materials were used for the decoration of the palace, including 19 varieties 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 a residence for the head of the Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin - he was engaged in the so-called smart home there.

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Then a certain builder Aleksey, who allegedly worked there, spoke on the air of the RSN. “300 Vietnamese people worked there, they killed all the fish with electric fishing rods. Finishing external - Italian marble. Sauna - three buildings, 14 by 14 meters, Italian furniture, marble bar counter, fireplace, stained glass windows. It is 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, the guest house, and the main one is his. There is a prayer house and a chapel. It seems that Metrostroy dug ponds there for 150 million. The tiles there are decorated with gold, 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 been Deputy Prime Minister since 2008, according to his declaration for 2012, is the wealthiest member of the government. His income amounted to about 226 million rubles (about $7 million). The income of the spouse is slightly less.

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In his declaration, the official indicated that, together with his wife and three minor children, he rented a house with an area of 4174 sq. 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 the Brezhnev-era Politburo member Mikhail Suslov (gosdacha Zarechye-4), is under zealous guard and is surrounded by a high fence. Natalya Pelevina, in her blog on the website of the radio station Ekho Moskvy, talks about the "palace" with an area of 1500 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 bushes trimmed in the Versailles style”, a greenhouse for exotic plants, separate houses for servants and guards And so on.

Another very impressive mansion stands on the banks of the Sunzha River in Grozny. 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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Nikolai Uskov, the head of the Snob project, after a meeting of the club of editors of the central media in Grozny, eloquently described what he saw: lined with minarets. […] Among the picturesque hills stretching to the left and Chechen ancestral towers, a small farm is hiding. With her, a bear cub lives in a cage, chickens and turkeys walk on the grass, roosters crow, a stream flows down into an artificial pond.

In February 2011, an article was published in Novaya Gazeta suggesting that a private 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). With its architecture, the Medvedev's dacha project is similar to the so-called Putin's palace in Gelendzhik.

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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 phone number, and the CEO of both organizations was at different times one and the same person (Olga Travina). The Office of the President's Affairs stated that it had nothing to do with the construction.

In Golubaya Bukhta, 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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The Times unearthed something else interesting. For example, that the reconstruction and expansion of the dilapidated mansion, which has 65 rooms, will cost the owners another 50 million pounds. On the area of the estate, it is planned to equip a 33-seat home cinema, a spa-salon, a swimming pool and underground parking for 24 cars with an automated lift. On the territory of the mansion, it is planned to place an Italian garden, a tennis court and dig a lake of such a size that it reflects the mansion. The basement will house a sauna, a wine cellar, staff quarters and a dining room. The changes to the house and yard will be so significant, the newspaper writes, that trucks will only have to take out the garbage for six months.

True, there is one nuance in this whole story. Baturina categorically rejects involvement in the future London Palace. And even, they say, is going to sue the newspaper. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of London, known for their conservatism, are alarmed: what if a huge new building appears in the historic district of the city, like in Moscow?

In fairness, we note that the palaces in London are not the limit for perfection. The standards in the construction of palaces today are set not by archaic buildings of the 18th century, but quite modern ones. Number one of these masterpieces is the Mardan Palace Hotel, which is worth $1.4 billion. ex-owner of the Cherkizovsky market Telman Ismailov repaid in Turkey .

The palace-hotel of Mr. Ismailov is an example of extremely luxurious eclecticism. The main gates copy the gates of Dolmabahce, the palace of the Turkish sultans in Istanbul. The facade of the hotel resembles Petrodvorets. On the territory of ten chic restaurants of different national cuisines, a cellar with the best wines in the world, a three-story nightclub and all kinds of spas. Bridges made according to the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci lead across the two-hectare pool, and passenger gondolas ply the waters of the pool. It took 10 thousand square meters to finish the interiors. m of gold leaf, 500 thousand crystals, and 23 thousand square meters. m of Italian marble.

And this is not all. A copy of the Istanbul Grand Bazaar was erected on the territory of the hotel, where fur coats, gold and silks are sold. For the beaches of the hotel, 9,000 tons of fine sand were brought from Egypt. The most expensive number costs $19,000 per day. His pride is a remote-controlled toilet.

Unlike palaces, so to speak, for private life, a palace-hotel can bring considerable profit. With full occupancy, the hotel's revenue will average $1 million per day.

What can be said after that? For the majority of Russians, who look longingly at the ostentatious luxury of their successful compatriots, the forgotten slogan comes to mind: “Land to the peasants. Palaces for workers!” And it even begins to seem that in some ways the organizers of the October Revolution were damn right.

The incredibly luxurious dwellings and country residences of the oligarchs simply amaze the imagination, but I’d rather not say anything about their cost. For example, Kadyrov's "cottage" cost him only $310 million, while our president is accustomed 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

Despite the presence of real estate in St. Petersburg, the Vasilyevs generously helped their native Vyritsa, where the brothers still live, 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. What is interesting about this estate is that it is a reduced copy of the Catherine Palace, the famous royal residence in Pushkin. The patterns on the cast-iron grating, the golden domes of the chapel, the sky-blue color and white statues - a lot here reminds of Catherine's.
There is only contradictory information about the interior: ceilings 14 meters high, marble stairs, doors made of tortoise shells, 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, only natural materials were used for the decoration of the palace, including 19 varieties of marble from Italy.

Dacha Yakunin

This Saturday, a post appeared on the entertainment portal, the author of which claimed that he participated in the construction of a residence for the head of the Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin - he was engaged in the so-called smart home there.

According to him, on several dozen hectares of forest near Domodedovo, their own lakes were dug, a garage for 15 cars was built, a separate box for an executive class limousine, one and a half kilometers of underground passages to the garage were built, there was its own cinema, a bath complex (1400 sq. m.) sauna, Russian, Turkish baths, salt room, swimming pool, separate massage room and more.
Then a certain builder Aleksey, who allegedly worked there, spoke on the air of the RSN. “300 Vietnamese people worked there, they killed all the fish with electric fishing rods. Finishing external - Italian marble. Bath - three buildings, 14 by 14 meters, Italian furniture, marble bar counter, fireplace, stained glass windows. It is 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. A small house is a son, a guest house, and the main one is his. There is a prayer house and a chapel. It seems that Metrostroy dug ponds there for 150 million. It is decorated with gold tiles, and the room is very large - a hammam, a bathhouse, a steam room, a panorama to look at the forest, ”said Alexei about what he saw near Domodedovo.

Shuvalov's residence

Residence Kadyrov

Novaya Gazeta notes that 48 million rubles (360,000 sq. m of lawn, 77 thousand sq. m of flower beds, 16 thousand roses, 14 thousand square meters. m curly cut shrubs, hedges and more. Approximately 36 million rubles have been allocated for public utilities of the residence.
Nikolai Uskov, the head of the Snob project, after a meeting of the club of editors of the central media in Grozny, eloquently described what he saw: lined with minarets. […] Among the picturesque hills stretching to the left and Chechen ancestral towers, a small farm is hiding. With her, a bear cub lives in a cage, chickens and turkeys walk on the grass, roosters crow, a stream flows down into an artificial pond.

Palace of Medvedev

The land on which the palace is located has been rented since July 2008 by the Department of Forestry of the Krasnodar Territory to the fund of regional non-profit projects Dar for the construction of a sports and recreation complex there. For a territory 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 phone number, and the CEO of both organizations was at different times one and the same person (Olga Travina). The Office of the President's Affairs stated that it had nothing to do with the construction.

Dacha Tkachev

According to Rosreestr, some of these lands really belong to the governor. However, according to environmentalists, the fenced area (about 7 hectares) significantly exceeds the area of land owned by Tkachev (1 hectare).
It was from the fence around the object that the scandal began to flare up. In February-March 2011, activists of the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus held protests against the seizure of forest land and the coastline, were detained by law enforcement officers and sentenced to various terms of administrative arrest (from 7 to 15 days). In response to a request from environmentalists sent to the Department of Forestry of the Krasnodar Territory, the answer came: there is no fence around this area.

Dacha of the Patriarch

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 the Pitsunda pine grows, protected by law, is fenced with a three-meter fence. On the territory, according to ecologists, there is “a strange, pretentious building - not a mansion, not a temple - this quadrangular building is crowned with domes with a cross. Absolutely some unimaginable hybrid of a palace and a temple.”

The Russian Orthodox Church confirmed that this object belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate, but noted that not a patriarch's cottage, but a spiritual center is being built near Gelendzhik. The territory of the spiritual center was to house a meeting room of the Holy Synod, accommodation for members of the Synod, administrative and managerial services of the Moscow Patriarchate, offices, conference rooms, press center premises, and so on. 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” that is rumored to belong to Putin.

Businessman Sergei Kolesnikov claims that, although the project was envisaged as a private residence for Nikolai Shamalov, the construction of the palace was carried out by Spetsstroy of Russia, and it was supervised, guarded and given all instructions by the Federal Security Service. According to Kolesnikov, the complex covered 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, landscape parks, tea houses, premises for staff 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 also 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 were seen in the residence area (one of them looked like the Olympia yacht, which, according to bloggers, Putin uses) and two patrol ships. And a few days before that, law enforcement agencies cleared the nearest coast of tents and checked the passports of the citizens resting in them.
Subsequently, Vladimir Kozhin, the head of the affairs of the President of the Russian Federation, denied reports about the construction of a residence for Vladimir Putin.

On Friday, Vladimir Barsukov was arrested and then transferred to a Moscow pre-trial detention center. This is an entrepreneur in the north-west of Russia, the founder of the so-called "Tambov business community" in St. Petersburg and the surrounding area, the last and most unsinkable of the "Mohicans" of the dashing 90s.

Surprisingly, the life of Vladimir Barsukov is inextricably linked with the screen. A few years ago, Vladimir Sergeevich played Louis XIV in Alexander Nevzorov's film The Story of a Horse. A little later, Leonid Parfyonov, who filmed "The Other Day" in St. Petersburg, turned up in his apartment on Tavricheskaya Street. Barsukov's apartment offers a beautiful view of the Tauride Garden. The owner and the television man were photographed for memory, Barsukov was proud: "These are the people I have." Ironically, Barsukov was arrested in those days when the TV series "Payback" - the continuation of the "Gangster Petersburg" saga - was on the Rossiya TV channel. The protagonist of the telenovela - Sukhaty - strikingly reminds the Petersburgers of Vladimir Barsukov. In the series, Sukhaty was taken by the security forces. For his prototype, the "series" is just beginning.

Series one. Bang bang - and in slippers

Everything began to spin when, last Wednesday, an assault force from the Prosecutor General's Office landed in the city on the Neva. A characteristic detail - the security forces of St. Petersburg were not even notified that Barsukov was planned to be detained. About 40 people participated in the operation. But not a single one from St. Petersburg.

To take into custody Vladimir Barsukov, a disabled person of the 1st group (his right arm was amputated), it took almost a military operation with the participation of special forces. It started on Wednesday at 4 p.m., when Barsukov's dacha in Tarkhovka near St. Petersburg was surrounded by four trucks with soldiers from the Zubr special forces detachment. The owner of the house came out in shorts and slippers, and went after the operatives for more than six hours while the search was going on. Closer to night, at 12 o'clock, we went to inspect Barsukov's apartment on Tavricheskaya Street.

According to Barsukov's household members, their dwelling made an indelible impression on the policemen. The apartment of Vladimir Sergeevich has two levels, and there are legends about its furnishings in St. Petersburg. One of the operas was so carried away that he almost forgot that he was looking for material evidence here, and not for his future father-in-law.

He began to ask if we have a daughter, whether she is married and how old she is, ”Marina Khaberlakh, the wife of Vladimir Barsukov, says with undisguised irony in her voice.

According to relatives of the businessman, only paintings, bronze figurines and other household items were seized during the search. Nothing illegal was found.

On Friday, the Petrogradsky District Court authorized Barsukov's arrest without charge. But after 10 days, according to the law, he must either be charged or released. The latter is unlikely.

Series two. We are each other's long echo

Why was Barsukov arrested now, when he advocates legal business? Recently, Vladimir Sergeevich even agreed to cooperate with the authorities. It was he who helped the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office to save the little townspeople:.

The official version of his detention was announced by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office. Barsukov is considered the customer of the assassination attempt on another St. Petersburg businessman - Sergei Vasiliev. The investigation, in addition, expects to prove Barsukov's involvement in a series of contract killings and raider seizures of enterprises.

Vasiliev is also a very curious person. His love for St. Petersburg architecture or luxury - whoever understands - was embodied in an exact copy of the Catherine Palace, which he built in the town of Vyritsa near St. Petersburg. The "Group of the Vasiliev brothers" was considered as the most, if I may say so, effective subdivision of the "Tambov business community." Vasiliev controls one of the most important enterprises - the Petersburg Oil Terminal (PNT). This is the largest bunkering company in the Seaport of St. Petersburg, which accounts for 15% of the total oil products transshipment in the Baltic.

In early 2006, the PNT nearly changed hands. The raiders used a "traditional" tactic - the substitution of data about the owners in the Unified Register. Vasiliev repulsed the attack. And at the end of the fight, in May, an attempt was made on him, which was immediately associated with a failed capture and ... with Vladimir Barsukov.

Whoever planned the elimination of Vasiliev, he furnished it as a "remake" of the early St. Petersburg 90s. On May 5 last year, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, in front of hundreds of passers-by and kids from a nearby kindergarten, a motorcade was slowly driving along Levashovsky Prospekt on the Petrogradskaya side - a gray Rolls-Royce, accompanied by a guard jeep. Suddenly, a gray "nine" dashed out in front of them, forcing both cars to stop. Three people jumped out of the Zhiguli and opened fire from machine guns and a pistol. Having covered the asphalt with shell casings, the shooters on the move jumped into the "nine" and disappeared. The abandoned car will later be found in a neighboring yard. But the shooters themselves got cold.

When the shooting started, Vasiliev himself was talking on a cell phone. One of the bullets hit ... the solid metal case of the apparatus, and not in the head of its owner. Nevertheless, Vasiliev spent several months in the hospital, balancing between life and death.

Reliable sources told Izvestia that it was Vasilyev who, having restored his health, put two plus two together and came to the conclusion that the same person, Vladimir Barsukov, was behind the attempt to seize the PNT and the assassination attempt on him. He allegedly presented his guesses to the prosecutor's office. And he was extremely interested in the journey of his enemy from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

We managed to talk with Vasiliev very briefly. He denies having anything to do with the arrest of a former senior comrade.

And why is it for me? - Vasiliev was very plausibly surprised. - Let the law enforcement agencies deal with this situation.

He admits that relations with Barsukov deteriorated in 2006.

Yes, everything was fine, and then misunderstandings began, - cut off Vasiliev. Probably, these two will not be able to understand and forgive each other for a long time. Or maybe never.

Credits. Starring

Vladimir Barsukov in St. Petersburg is often called Kumarin - out of habit. This is his former last name. He was born in 1956 in the village of Aleksandrovka, Tambov Region. He wrote his graduation essay on the topic "Motherland is what is dear from childhood." He studied at a vocational school as a driver, served in the army, moved to Leningrad, and in 1976 entered the Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics. He worked as a freight forwarder in canteen No. 117, as a bartender and cocktail maker in the Tallinn cafe, and also as a doorman and storekeeper in the Windrose cafe.

In the second half of the 80s, Kumarin created a team of like-minded people, which in those days was called the "brigade". Vladimir Sergeevich selected fellow countrymen from the Tambov region to join her, not forgetting that "Motherland is something that is dear from childhood." The community, of course, was called "Tambov". Its members were fond of playing thimbles and provided paid security services to the population. In 1990, the court qualified the classes as hooliganism, robbery and extortion. Among the Tambovites, Kumarin was also convicted. Out of 4 years, he served in a colony for two and a half.

Since 1993, the oil business has attracted the community. This is how the Petersburg Fuel Company began to emerge. Over time, the business will grow in other areas: banks, casinos, restaurants, shopping centers, food supply. According to one version, it was because of the products that Barsukov lost his arm. There was a battle for a contract for the supply of alcohol for the Goodwill Games. "Mercedes", where Coumarin was driving, was riddled with bullets. The amputation was performed in Germany.

After the cure, the entrepreneur returned to St. Petersburg, becoming even more authoritative. But the time has come to change his name, to become Barsukov (mother's maiden name), vice-president of the St. Petersburg Fuel Company, a legal entrepreneur. After another authoritative St. Petersburg resident, Kostya Mogila, was shot in Moscow, Barsukov was left alone with St. Petersburg.

Barsukov's supporters are sure that he was not involved in the assassination attempt on Vasiliev. He cherishes too much the image of the law-abiding citizen and the repentant Christian. He donated to the needs of the church. The amounts of his deductions to the servants of the Lord were comparable to the budget of a small town. Vladimir Sergeevich is also an assistant to State Duma deputy Alexander Nevzorov with a salary of 1,600 rubles. When asked about his current status, he answers: "Pensioner."

Sergey Vasilyev is the middle one among the three brothers, but the "senior in rank". Sergei, Alexander and Boris Vasilievich Vasiliev were born and live in the village of Vyritsa, a hundred kilometers from St. Petersburg. Sergey Vasiliev was born in Vyritsa in 1955, at the age of 19 he was imprisoned for rape, at 31 he was arrested for extortion. Was convicted of fraud. In the early 90s, he became a junior friend of Kumarin. Together they emerged from the shadows into the light and became good citizens.

The Vasiliev brothers were born in the village of Vyritsa, Leningrad Region. At first they were engaged in video salons, then they drove cars from Europe for sale in Russia, they kept 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.
Despite the presence of real estate in St. Petersburg, the Vasilyevs generously helped their native Vyritsa, where the brothers still live, 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. What is interesting about this estate is that it is a reduced copy of the Catherine Palace, the famous royal residence in Pushkin.
The patterns on the cast-iron grating, the golden domes of the chapel, the sky-blue color and white statues - a lot here reminds of Catherine's.
There is only contradictory information about the interior: ceilings 14 meters high, marble stairs, doors made of tortoise shells, 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, only natural materials were used for the decoration of the palace, including 19 varieties of marble from Italy.

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