The most luxurious estates of the Russian elite (photo). The palace secret of the Vasilyev brothers Vasilyev Palace in Vyritsa

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 the eight most luxurious " architectural masterpieces", owned by 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. Sergei Vasiliev controlled and controls the St. Petersburg oil terminal - the largest in seaport St. Petersburg bunkering company, with a 15% share of the volume of oil products transshipped in the Baltic.

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The Vasilyevs generously helped their native Vyritsa, where the brothers still live, despite the presence of real estate in St. Petersburg - for example, they restored wooden church Kazan Mother of God, which is popular among 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 are 14 meters high, marble stairs, tortoiseshell doors, mosaic marble floors with total area more than 600 sq. 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 - worked there on the so-called smart home.


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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, a separate box for a luxury limousine were built, one and a half kilometers underground passages in the garage, there was a private cinema, a bath complex (1400 sq. m) with a sauna, Russian, Turkish baths, a salt room, a swimming pool, a 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 Versailles style,” a greenhouse for exotic plants, detached houses for servants and security, etc.

On the banks of the Sunzha River in Grozny stands another very impressive mansion. Official residence 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 in the territory natural reserve Big Utrish ( Krasnodar region) a personal dacha is being built for ex-president and current prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. The mansion in Bolshoi Utrish was to be equipped with a marina and 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 rented out since July 2008 by the forestry department Krasnodar region fund for regional non-profit projects Gift 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 different time one 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).

The Times unearthed something else interesting. For example, the renovation and expansion of the dilapidated 65-room mansion will cost the owners a further £50 million. On the estate area it is planned to equip a 33-seat home cinema, a spa salon, a swimming pool and an 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 size that the mansion is reflected in it. There will be a sauna in the basement, wine Vault, rooms for staff accommodation and a dining room. The changes that the house and site will undergo will be so significant, the publication writes, that trucks will only have to remove garbage for six months.

True, there is one nuance in this whole story. Baturina categorically denies involvement in the future London palace. And they even say he is going to sue the newspaper. Nevertheless, Londoners, known for their conservatism, are alarmed: suddenly in historical district Will there be a huge new building in the city, like in Moscow?

To be fair, we note that the palaces in London are not the limit for perfection. The standards in palace construction today are set not by archaic buildings of the 18th century, but by completely modern ones. Number one of these masterpieces is the Mardan Palace Hotel, which costs $1.4 billion. ex-owner of the Cherkizovsky market Telman Ismailov fucked up in Turkey .

The palace-hotel of Mr. Ismailov is an example of extremely luxurious eclecticism. The front gate copies the gate of Dolmabahce, the palace of the Turkish sultans in Istanbul. The facade of the hotel resembles Petrodvorets. There are ten chic restaurants on the territory of different national cuisines, cellar with the best wines of the world, three floors night club and all kinds of spas. Bridges made according to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci lead across the two-hectare pool, and passenger gondolas ply along the waters of the pool. 10 thousand square meters were spent on finishing the interiors. m of gold leaf, 500 thousand crystals, and 23 thousand sq. m of Italian marble.

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

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

What can be said after this? For most Russians, looking sadly at the ostentatious luxury of their successful compatriots, a forgotten slogan comes to mind: “The land is for the peasants. Palaces for the workers!” And it even begins to seem that in some ways the organizers of the October Revolution were damn right.

Incredibly luxurious homes and country residences The oligarchs are simply amazing, and I’d simply rather not say anything about their value. 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

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 North Caucasus carried out actions against the seizure of forest fund 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 at 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.”

In 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 Gelendzhik region there is a “recreation complex” rumored to belong 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, landscape 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. 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.

It's no secret that there is no smell of equality in our country (as well as throughout the world). Some people can barely squeeze into a cramped dorm room, while others build such mansions for themselves that hosting a reception for several hundred people is nothing. I suggest you look at luxury houses the richest people in Russia.
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 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.

Godfather from Vyritsa.

Leningrad region, Vyritsa village, 60 km from St. Petersburg. Our days. On the banks of the Oredezh River there is a house with an area of ​​about 2100 sq.m. Or rather, not a house, but a smaller copy of the Great Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo (this is where the amber room, baroque, etc.).

Everything inside is cool too. Marble, gold

Vases, chests of drawers

Living room. The height of the ceiling is 14 meters. 5-meter statues in assortment.

Not Carlo Gambino's house, yes.

They are idiots there at Cosa Nostra, what can I say?

House church inside the palace in Vyritsa. The owner is a very God-fearing person. Well, he has something to fear in this regard, let's put it that way.

Also in the palace there are paintings, stained glass windows, mosaic floors made of 19 types of marble, doors made of tortoiseshells (!), stucco molding, forging and walnut wood carvings. According to conservative estimates, finishing of this level costs 40-50 thousand euros per square. Those. we're talking about about an estate worth 100 million euros.

Personal helicopter owner of the palace in Vyritsa on the site in front of the house:

He flies on it to St. Petersburg. On business. The helicopter usually takes off in Vyritsa and lands on the lawn near Peter and Paul Fortress, right in the city center. There the owner of the palace is transferred to a motorcade with guards.

Back - the same way. Cortege-helicopter-palace.

The owner prefers expensive cars, supercars. In this case, the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport for 2 million euros. In my opinion, there are only two of these in Russia (the second is Kadyrov’s).

And this is the owner of the palace driving a Lamborghini Reventon (1.4 million euros) in the center of St. Petersburg:

On a Rolls-Royce (he has several of them, his favorite car):

On the unique Maserati MS 12 along Nevsky...

Who is this oligarch from Vyritsa with helicopters and Rolls-Royces, who lives in the royal palace for 100 million euros? - One respected person. Here it is close up:

This is criminal authority Sergei Vasiliev, Tambov organized crime group. Repeat offender, convicted twice Soviet times: for rape (in 1974) and fraud (1987). In the 1980s, he created one of the first gangs of racketeers in the city (the Vasiliev brothers’ gang).

He bombed car markets, twisted caps (protected thimbles), collected tribute from Galera (the black market for imported goods near Gostiny Dvor). All this happened back in the USSR. In the 1990s. Vasiliev became one of the shadow masters of the city. Together with the Tambov organized crime group, he participated in the seizure seaport and other enterprises. In the 2000s, under Putin, the bandit Vasiliev reached the heights of prosperity. In October 2017, I visited Putin for his 65th birthday (they have known each other for a long time).

Vyritsa is an urban-type settlement; there are about 12 thousand permanent residents (not summer residents). The neighborhoods where they live look something like this:

The barracks were built in who knows what years...

All this is successfully complemented by the palace of the bandit Vasiliev. You can take schoolchildren to Vyritsa. For lessons on modern history Russia. Well, so as not to tell for too long. You can also transport social science students. In order to study the topic “Capitalism for our own”. To make it clear: here are our own, and here are strangers, everything is clear.

We can say with confidence that none of the leaders of Cosa Nostra in America live like this. There are more and more “plumbing managers” there.

Another interesting point: judging by the land registry, Vasilyev’s palace in Vyritsa stands on a plot of 4.1 hectares, which is allocated for a “health care facility” ( health complex).

You can rest assured about the health of Vasiliev’s authority. But the rest of the residents of the village of Vyritsa are being treated at the local district hospital on Moskovskaya Street, 12. This healthcare facility is only 4 km from the bandit palace, and here life is completely different... the main problem- the sewerage collector next to the hospital has long fallen into disrepair and is leaking. Feces spread throughout the area, spreading all the delights of unsanitary conditions. Fix it? - But there is no money.