Luxurious properties of famous compatriots. Palace of the Vasilyev brothers Pahan from Vyritsa

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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, 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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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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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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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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The Vasilievsky Palace in the village of Vyritsa is also called the Vasiliev house or dacha, the mansion of the Vasiliev brothers. It is located on the left bank of the Oredezh River and sends us to the Great Catherine Palace in Pushkin.

Construction of the Vasiliev mansion

Vasilyevsky Palace was built in 2005–2006. It was designed by St. Petersburg architect Igor Nikolaevich Gremitsky. Only natural materials and only ancient technologies were used in the finishing.

We can say that this is the first truly marble palace in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. The mansion is intended to receive high-ranking guests. Therefore, its design amazes every imagination.

The architect explained the idea as follows:

The difficulty was to create a feeling of huge volume in the interior (more from the inside than from the outside)... In addition, we strived to ensure that there were no repetitions in the decor, so that step by step the space would open up to the viewer unexpectedly, richly, brightly, in a new way, although the leading style is one - Russian Baroque.

Royal decoration of the palace

The architectural volumes and height of the ceilings in the palace premises are delightful, for example, in the great hall - 14 m. The sight of a marble staircase can evoke an indescribable feeling, not to mention the luxurious design of the walls, columns and ceiling.

The area of mosaic marble floors is over 600 m2. Columns, fireplaces and pilasters in the hall and foyer, as well as the walls of the first floor, stairs and sculptures are made of marble. All this beauty was created by the best masters of Russia and Italy.

The second floor is presented in the form of open galleries framing an oval double-height hall and thereby creating a large visual space. Five-meter tall giant knights made of black marble adorn the central gallery.

Palace complex

The mansion is located on a plot measuring 400x400 m. There is also a regular park on the territory of which there are fountains, marble sculptures, cannons, and a summer gazebo.

In front of the palace there is a column with a sculptural composition - the Guardian Angel, who supports the last emperor of Russia - Nicholas II with his right hand, and shades the king with a cross with his left.

The palace complex has a chapel, just like the Great Catherine Palace.

Palace owner

The customer of the project and the owner of the palace is St. Petersburg businessman Sergei Vasilievich Vasiliev, the middle of the 3 Vasiliev brothers, natives of Vyritsa.

The owner's initials - "SVV" - are emblazoned in the cartouche above the main entrance to the mansion. In Vyritsa, the Vasiliev brothers sponsored the reconstruction of the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and a number of other historical monuments.

Address of Vasilyevsky Palace

Leningrad region, Gatchina district, pos. Vyritsa

How to get to Vyritsa from St. Petersburg

Suburban train

From Vitebsky station (metro stations "Pushkinskaya", "Zvenigorodskaya") take one of the trains going to "Vyritsa", "Poselok", "Oredezh", "Chaschu", "Cholovo" or "Novinka". Travel time is about 1.00-1.20 hours.
You can also take the above trains at the Kupchino station (platform), located directly above the metro station of the same name on the southern outskirts of St. Petersburg.
Attention: trains going to Pavlovsk or Novolisino are not suitable!

Automobile

Follow the Kievskoe or Moskovskoe highway - 62-76 km. Travel time - 0.50-1.15 hours.

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 to the garage were built, there was a private cinema, a bathhouse 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

Kadyrov's residence

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

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

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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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.

In an amazing way, Vladimir Barsukov’s life is inextricably linked with the screen. Several years ago, Vladimir Sergeevich played Louis XIV in Alexander Nevzorov’s film “The Story of a Horse.” A little later, Leonid Parfenov, who was filming “The Other Day” in St. Petersburg, ended up in his apartment on Tavricheskaya Street. Barsukov's apartment offers a beautiful view of the Tauride Garden. The owner and the TV man took a photo as a souvenir, Barsukov was proud: “These are the kind of people I have.” Ironically, Barsukov was arrested in those days when the TV series “Reckoning” was broadcast on the Rossiya TV channel - a continuation of the “Gangster Petersburg” saga. The main character of the telenovela, Sokhaty, strikingly reminds St. Petersburg residents of Vladimir Barsukov. In the series, Sokhaty was taken by the security forces. For his prototype, the “series” is just beginning.

Episode one. Bam-bang - and in slippers

Everything came to a head when the Prosecutor General's Office landed in the city on the Neva last Wednesday. A characteristic detail is that the security forces in St. Petersburg were not even notified that Barsukov was planned to be detained. About 40 people took part in the operation. But not a single one from St. Petersburg.

To take into custody Vladimir Barsukov, a disabled person of group I (his right arm was amputated), it took almost a military operation with the participation of special forces. It started on Wednesday at 16:00, 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 followed 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, their home made an indelible impression on the police. Vladimir Sergeevich’s apartment has two levels, and its furnishings are the stuff of legends 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 a future father-in-law.

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

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

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

Episode two. We are a long echo of each other

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 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 mastermind 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 takeovers of enterprises.

Vasiliev is also a very curious person. His love for St. Petersburg architecture or luxury - who knows - was embodied in an exact copy of the Catherine Palace, which he built in the town of Vyritsa near St. Petersburg. The “Group of Vasilyev Brothers” was considered the most, so to speak, effective division of the “Tambov business community.” Vasiliev controls one of the most important enterprises - the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal (PNT). This is the largest bunkering company in the Seaport of St. Petersburg, accounting for 15% of the total volume of oil products transshipped in the Baltic.

At the beginning of 2006, PNT almost changed hands. The raiders used “traditional” tactics - replacing data on owners in the Unified Register. Vasilyev repelled the attack. And at the end of the battle, in May, an attempt was made on his life, which was immediately associated with the failed capture and... with Vladimir Barsukov.

Whoever planned the elimination of Vasiliev, he framed it as a “remake” of the early St. Petersburg 90s. On May 5 last year, in the second hour of the day, in front of hundreds of passers-by and children from a nearby kindergarten, a motorcade was slowly driving along Levashovsky Prospekt on the Petrogradskaya side - a gray Rolls-Royce, accompanied by a security jeep. Suddenly, a gray “nine” flew dashingly across them, forcing both cars to stop. Three people jumped out of the Zhiguli and opened fire with machine guns and a pistol. Having strewn the asphalt with shell casings, the shooters jumped into the "nine" while moving and disappeared. The abandoned car is later found in a neighboring yard. But there was no trace of the shooters themselves.

When the shooting started, Vasiliev himself was talking on his cell phone. One of the bullets hit... the durable metal body of the device, and not 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 Vasiliev, having regained his health, who put two and two together and came to the conclusion that the same person was behind the attempt to seize PNT and the assassination attempt on him - Vladimir Barsukov. He allegedly presented his guesses to the prosecutor's office. And he was extremely interested in his enemy’s journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

We managed to talk with Vasiliev very briefly. He denies that he had anything to do with the arrest of his former senior comrade.

Why do I need this? - Vasiliev was very plausibly surprised. - Let the law enforcement agencies sort this out.

He admits that relations with Barsukov deteriorated in 2006.

Yes, everything was fine, and then things got confusing,” Vasiliev snapped. Probably, these two will not be able to understand and forgive each other for a long time. Or maybe never.

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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. I wrote my graduation essay on the topic “The Motherland is something that has been dear since childhood.” He studied at a vocational school to become a driver, served in the army, moved to Leningrad and in 1976 entered the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics. He worked as a forwarder in canteen No. 117, as a bartender and cocktail maker in the Tallinn cafe, and also as a doorman and storekeeper in the Rose of the Winds cafe.

In the second half of the 80s, Kumarin created a team of like-minded people, which in those days was called a “brigade”. Vladimir Sergeevich selected fellow countrymen from the Tambov region for it, not forgetting that “the Motherland is something that has been dear since childhood.” The community, of course, received the name “Tambov”. Its members were fond of playing thimbles and provided paid security services to the population. In 1990, the court classified the activities as hooliganism, robbery and extortion. Among the Tambov prisoners, Kumarin was also convicted. He served a little over two of his four years in prison.

Since 1993, the community has been attracted to the oil business. This is how the St. 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 to supply alcohol for the Goodwill Games. The Mercedes where Kumarin was driving was riddled with bullets. The amputation was performed in Germany.

After recovery, the entrepreneur returned to St. Petersburg, becoming even more authoritative. But the time has come to change his name, become Barsukov (mother’s maiden name), vice-president of the St. Petersburg Fuel Company, and 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 confident that he was not involved in the assassination attempt on Vasiliev. He values too much the image of a law-abiding citizen and a repentant Christian. He donated to the needs of the church. The amounts of his contributions 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.”

Sergei Vasiliev is the middle-aged of three brothers, but the “senior in rank.” Sergey, Alexander and Boris Vasilyevich Vasiliev were born and live in the village of Vyritsa, a hundred kilometers from St. Petersburg. Sergei Vasiliev was born in Vyritsa in 1955, at the age of 19 he was imprisoned for rape, and at the age of 31 he was prosecuted for extortion. He was convicted of fraud. In the early 90s he became Kumarin's younger comrade. Together they came out of the shadows into the light and became good citizens.

Palace of the Vasiliev Brothers