On Thursday, January 31, Alexey Miller turned 57 years old. For the last 18 years, he has held the position of Chairman of the Board. But he was hardly in a festive mood that day.
The day before, a gas theft scandal broke out, and on Thursday the Baza investigative project published an article about the “Tsar Apartment”.
According to the publication, the housing area of the head of Gazprom on Mytninskaya embankment in St. Petersburg is 1,396 sq.m. “Moreover, on the same floor with the Tsar Apartment, in the same building, there are two more apartments belonging to the head of Gazprom: with an area of 186 and 401 square meters,” the material says.
Thus, the total area of residential premises that allegedly belong to Alexey Miller is almost 2 thousand square meters.
The cadastral value of Miller’s largest apartment is 284 million rubles; investigators estimated the market price at approximately 1 billion rubles. This is about $15 million at current course and approximately $30 million at the exchange rate before the 2015 devaluation.
According to one of the St. Petersburg realtors, we are talking about an object known as the Zoological building, 2-4, overlooking Mytninskaya embankment. An apartment with an area of 1,346 square meters can cost more than 1 billion rubles, confirms Gazeta.Ru’s interlocutor.
“In my opinion, the house was not on public sale. The apartments were allegedly bought by Gazprom employees. At the construction stage, it was already the most expensive house in St. Petersburg,” he said.
The house was commissioned in 2012. The project was implemented by the construction corporation "Vozrozhdenie St. Petersburg", which is part of.
“A three-story underground parking lot with car washes, chic halls and staircases, atrium courtyards - everything is provided here to create special comfort. This house is a true embodiment of the dream of true connoisseurs of exclusivity,” says the description of the property on the company’s website.
Alexey Miller is quite capable of buying luxury apartments for himself. In 2014-2015 alone, it is estimated that he received almost $45 million in remuneration.
Gazprom left Gazeta.Ru’s questions about publications about the apartment unanswered.
However, the publication about the apartments left an unpleasant aftertaste and unnecessary hype. Moreover, on Wednesday another extremely unpleasant event occurred for Gazprom.
The decision on the head of Gazprom will still be made only by the president, the political scientist emphasizes.
In recent years, St. Petersburg has confidently overtaken Moscow in the number of interesting events in the housing and communal services sector. It is in the Northern capital that apartments with 58 rooms and with rails are located. Here they flush entire mattresses down the drain, refuse to exchange rooms in communal apartments for normal housing, and during routine cleaning they find rare works of art.
And the local real estate market is literally teeming with offers of housing “with history” - apartments that belong or once belonged to famous residents of St. Petersburg. Such lots are naturally sold at a premium. But you don’t have to pay extra for being next to “star” apartments. I found out how much it would cost to be associated with one or another eminent St. Petersburg resident.
Mytninskaya embankment, 5
At the end of January of this year, a “good” apartment at 5 Mytninskaya Embankment created a lot of noise. The media found out that the premises with a living area of almost 900 square meters belong to the head of . According to the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRN), the apartments were “created” by combining six apartments on the floor. From the loggia of the elite home there is a view of one of the most popular St. Petersburg restaurants - the Flying Dutchman - and the Peter and Paul Fortress. The cadastral value of the property is 324.7 million rubles. The market value, according to expert estimates, could be a billion rubles.
In the building where the “king apartment” is located, there are offices of Gazpromneft-Aero (the aviation division of the gas holding) and Shelf (engaged in the development of offshore fields). There are no apartments for sale directly at the address Mytninskaya, 5 in online real estate databases, but in the adjacent building (Mytninskaya embankment, 3) a 608-meter apartment is for sale. The cost of the proposal is 360 million rubles.
“Having crossed the threshold, you will find yourself in a bright and cozy apartment with interesting design solutions and original interior items, a large winter garden with tropical plants, Indian sculptures and a small pond,” says the description posted in the database.
The apartment has a children's room, a kitchen and a library, an office, a living room with a fireplace, two halls, four bedrooms, five bathrooms (including one in the nursery), a swimming pool, a sauna and a Turkish steam room. The ceiling height reaches 5.8 meters.
Moika Embankment, 31
The first mayor of St. Petersburg and his family - his wife Lyudmila and daughter Ksenia - once lived in a seven-story building on the Moika River embankment, 31. There is a memorial plaque on the house. The main D'Artagnan of Russian cinema, an actor, judging by data from open sources, still lives here. Only two apartments are put up for sale in the building - for an immodest 49 million and 55 million rubles.
A three-room apartment will cost less. “The apartment is located in one of the iconic buildings of the city,” writes the author of the advertisement posted on the CIAN portal. - The first mayor of the city, Anatoly Sobchak, lived in this house from 1990 to 2000, as evidenced by the memorial plaque. The total area of the apartment is 99.5 square meters and consists of two bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen. A major overhaul has been completed. Style: modern classic. All communications have been replaced. The apartment is located on the second floor, from the windows of one of the bedrooms and the living room there is a magnificent view of the Moika River, the house-museum of A.S. Pushkin. The windows of the small bedroom (office) and kitchen overlook a guarded courtyard with parking. Status neighbors. Magnificent renovated front entrance with fireplace, new elevator. Strict security. The place, the house and the apartment will not leave any buyer indifferent.”
For 55 million in the same building you can buy an apartment with a total area of 125 square meters. In the description there is not a word about the famous neighbor - the artist; the seller relies on the historical value of the object: “The famous house of St. Petersburg in the neoclassical style, built in 1914-1915 for Major General of the retinue Count Nikolai Fersen, favored by famous St. Petersburgers in the 21st century century." The cost per square meter of luxury housing is almost 439 thousand rubles.
2nd line of Vasilyevsky Island, 17
You can become a neighbor - official, but not actual - of the country's first person for 23.9 million rubles. An advertisement for the sale of a five-room apartment in a building where residential premises of approximately 77 square meters belonging to the President of Russia is located was published in the Yandex.Real Estate database.
The total area of the apartment is almost 180 square meters. “One owner, no one is registered, direct sale,” the description notes. “A bright front entrance with a wide staircase and an elevator, a green, cozy courtyard, decent neighbors, free parking, an absolutely safe place for family living is ensured by the close proximity of the representative office.”
The apartments are located in building No. 17 on the 2nd line of Vasilievsky Island - according to some media reports, Putin purchased an apartment in this building in 1992. In 2007, a loud scandal broke out around the home: , who was then a member of the St. Petersburg parliament, said that the building where Putin’s apartment is located was in danger of collapsing. The politician claimed that an illegal redevelopment was made in one of the premises of the building. Utility workers are a statement. Almost 12 years later, the house stands in the same place and is not considered unsafe.
Kronverksky Avenue, 23
A Soviet writer lived in house No. 23 on Kronverksky Prospekt. Now there are no apartments for sale here, but at the end of last year it was possible to buy the premises where Gorky hosted the English writer for only 11.5 million rubles. The 52-meter apartment overlooking Alexander Park and the Peter and Paul Fortress was sold openly, and a buyer was found within a few hours.
“In general, there is a very cool house there in terms of culture. A very rare offer on the market,” - one of the St. Petersburg realtors who was involved in the sale of the property. He did not name the seller and buyer.
The writer's fans still have a chance to live on the square meters he walked on. The fact is that the apartment where Gorky originally lived was subsequently divided into three. Only one apartment out of three has recently found a new owner, and the remaining two may well be put on the market in the foreseeable future.
Kronverkskaya street, 29/37
Very nearby, on Kronverkskaya Street, an apartment that belonged to the composer is still for sale. The property was put on the market in January 2019, and until now in the CIAN database there are several advertisements for the sale of a 240-meter dwelling, posted by different agencies.
The apartment is located on the fifth floor of a six-story building built in 1914. “We offer for sale a unique apartment of the famous Russian composer Shostakovich, where he lived, created his music, and it was here that the 7th Leningrad Symphony was created,” the description says. - The interior of that historical era has been preserved - ceremonial enfilade rooms, high panoramic doors, a large open terrace (23 square meters), magnificent stucco moldings, chandeliers, lamps, sconces, fireplace, bay windows, old paintings, antiques, furniture (all included in the price of the property) ). Here you can touch a piece of the musical history of our country and the work of a brilliant composer.”
The cost of the apartment is 50 million rubles. In some advertisements from private brokers, its price is lower - 24 million and 35 million rubles.
Bela Kuna, 6k1
In the much less prestigious Frunzensky district, you can buy an apartment for just 7.4 million rubles in the house where the prime minister of Russia, and in the past, the president of the country, spent his childhood. In 2009, the building on Bela Kun Street was awarded the title of “House of Exemplary Maintenance”.
Currently, only one apartment is for sale in the nine-story panel building - a four-room apartment on the sixth floor. The total area of the home is almost 75 square meters. “Modern renovations have been completed, the kitchen set is a gift,” writes the author of the ad. - Documents are ready for sale, one adult owner, no one lives or is registered. Suitable for mortgage, maternity capital, subsidies.”
The owner is also ready to exchange an apartment in a building with a presidential past for a more modest home. He obliged the artist to pay money to one of the companies, and she made a settlement agreement with the other three.
There are no properties for open sale at the “Volochkovo” address, but next door, in other buildings on Italianskaya Street, an apartment can be purchased at a price of 12 million rubles. According to data in the CIAN database, a two-room apartment with a total area of 53 square meters in house No. 6/4 will cost this amount.
The most expensive offer on Italianskaya is a three-room apartment with an area of 380 square meters in building No. 12a. It costs 300 million rubles.
Nevsky Prospekt, 88
Neighborhood with a less scandalous cultural figure will cost a reasonable ten million rubles. The musician, according to media reports, lives in house No. 88 on Nevsky Prospekt, not far from the Mayakovskaya metro station. At the time of publication of the material, one apartment was put up for sale in the building - a two-room apartment on the sixth floor.
The total area of the apartment is 70 square meters, the kitchen area is 20 meters. “The apartment is located in a quiet, guarded courtyard in a monumental house,” says the advertisement posted in the CIAN database. - Decent entrance with an elevator. The apartment is two-level in good repair. Sold with furniture and household appliances.”
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Young Mikhail Miller became the owner of plots in the Vyborg direction worth about 200 million. He got the land at the age of 14, and how much the houses cost in dollars is an intrigue. 47news soared above the graceful buildings.
On Divnaya Street in the village of Leninskoye, Vyborg district, among a coniferous forest, on 40 thousand square meters there are lands registered in the name of a 23-year-old Mikhail Alekseevich Miller. On July 19, he became the owner of at least three of the five buildings on this site, extracts from the Unified State Register of Real Estate tell us. The land was registered in Mikhail’s name back in 2010, when he turned 14 years old. The name of the young man is exactly the same as the son of the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller. His name can be seen in open sources.
Guests are greeted by an ornamental driveway and columns of a solid two-story house entrance. From above, the outline resembles a plump imported water tap. Then there is a lake framed by paths with a bridge. The stone gazebo with its sapphire-colored roof is absolutely lovely. Behind the lake where our copter spotted a splashing swan is a second house. There, a watering hose lay like a snake, taking care of a bright flower bed among the landscape design. If we go to the left, throwing back the spreading branches, we will stumble upon another house. Subjectively - the most comfortable, perhaps a guest one.
At the rear of the site is a massive rectangular building. Judging by the fact that there is a sandy area with many footprints nearby, we assume that there is a stable and an arena there. Nearby is a one-story elongated building. Apparently for the servants. A tractor for household needs nestled right there.
I would like to assume that at such a young age, Miller Jr. was able to achieve success that allowed him to reach the heights of such real estate. The cadastral value of the land is 18.5 million rubles. The investment, by the way, looks more reasonable than . As for the market value, plots are offered in a cottage village nearby at 425 thousand per hundred square meters. Consequently, the land on display today can cost about 170 million. It is impossible to correctly estimate the price of the constructed assets without an impression of the interior decoration, but we are unlikely to be mistaken in assuming that these are millions and not rubles. Although the amounts are absolutely unaffordable for the permanent head of the gas monopoly, Alexei Miller.
The further logic is clear. Where there is a leader, there are associates and businessmen associated with the property. 47news conditionally divided the space surrounding the Millers' house into sectors. We looked at the neighbors. The register did not disappoint - the owners of almost all plots are personalized, and these names are heard in Gazprom.
Behind the stables
In the north, behind the arena, where there is a street with the simple name Lugovaya, there is a plot of 11 thousand square meters, designed for Alexander Valerievich Dyukov. Contractors also contact the Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Neft. Colleagues from Forbes estimated his fortune at $600 million: he owns minority stakes in Gazprom Neft and Sibur. In this context, the price for land of about 50 million rubles does not seem extraordinary. Dyukov recently became president of the Russian Football Union. Top manager in the Leningrad region.
Of the neighbors known to the business community of St. Petersburg, a decent piece of 32 acres was owned by a person with the credentials of a major port entrepreneur Mikhail Efimovich Soshnik. Shortly before his death was reported in October last year, the plot was re-registered as Irina Kukonega, member of the audit commission and owner of 15% shares of OJSC Fish Processing Plant-1. Nearby - 24 acres belonging to Vladimir Leonidovich Kalashnikov. The parents also named the head of the “Biathlon Union of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.” The media linked Kalashnikov with friendship with the mayor of Moscow Sobyanin in the story of the Antipinsky Oil Refinery in Tyumen. Today, the enterprise is in the news in the context of a criminal case of fraud.
On the porch
If you look with an armed gaze to the West from the Miller estate - conditionally, in front of the entrance - then here too you will find names that sound in Gazprom. However, they are not the only ones.
Literally across the street from the entrance there are two plots. One of them, on 100 acres, most likely belongs to the family Yuri Gorokh, known as the deputy head of the Gazprom board of staff. Three nice roofs are visible from space. Second front neighbor - Nikolaev Pavel Vladimirovich, approximately on the same scale. The manager who came to Gazprom structures at the same time as Miller calls himself similarly, but he held only minor positions as head of regional divisions of Mezhregiongaz.
A little further he owns a plot of 50 acres Sergey Vladimirovich Kupriyanov. This is what Alexey Miller calls his press secretary and head of the Information Policy Department of the gas monopoly. He is also known as a pilot of the KAMAZ-master team, and is also a pleasant conversationalist. Based on the level we adopted, the plot could cost Kupriyanov 21 million rubles. The cadastre and Google maps collectively show three decent buildings on his land. The owner, by the way, maintains a conditional defense of the “nest” from ordinary citizens - behind his plot one can see historically preserved colorful houses on the classic six hundred square meters.
Next door, a noble triangle with an area of 150 acres is decorated on Mikhail Leonidovich Sereda. This is how they address the deputy chairman of the board - the head of the Gazprom board of directors, who is on the boards of directors of Gazprom, Gazprom Neft and Gazprombank. Arithmetic suggests that the land could cost 64 million rubles. There are no buildings visible there - the area is densely overgrown with a marvelous pine forest.
A plot of 120 acres in the shape of a huge cayenne pepper is located along the river. It is lower than the lands of Kupriyanov and Sereda. In March of this year, “pepper” was registered on Olga Vladimirovna Dragomiretskaya. This name is borne by the manager of the Gazprombank branch in the North-West. The lady's biography says that she started as a senior economist on the executive committee of the Leningrad District Council in 1984. According to the standards we have adopted, today this land is worth fifty million.
Eight thousand squares in the friendly sector belong to Marinichev Anatoly Yurievich. The deputy general director for capital construction of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz and a member of the board of directors of the subsidiary Gazprom Gazoraspredeleniye were addressed identically. Judging by the video, the owner of the site prefers circles among landscape shapes. Marinichev's neighbor is someone Alexander Sergeevich Ivannikov with the same allotment. If a casual visitor to the financial and economic department of Gazprom starts looking in the corridors for a person with such data, he will be pointed to the office of the head of the department.
In the underbelly
If we climb over the fence on the south side from the Miller estate, then here too we will meet names that are understandable in Gazprom. Adjacent to the plot is a dacha registered on Ravil Alimdzhanovich Urusov. The same initials belong to one of the most respected St. Petersburg industrialists. He started back in the 1970s at the Izhora plants, and by the mid-1990s he was already part of the management of Elektrosila and the Leningrad Metal Plant. Now he heads JSC "New Era".
The head of Gazprom is building himself a luxurious palace in the style of the 18th century worth $50 million.
Design documentation for the proposed future residence of Gazprom head Alexei Miller, which looks like a huge palace in the style of the 18th century.
An impressive palace, very similar to the mansion in Peterhof, that suddenly grew up on the banks of the Istra Reservoir initially caused a lot of noise in blogs.
But officially, the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, who was listed as the real owner of the palace, did not admit that he had anything to do with it.
“Our company has nothing to do with the Istra Estate,” said Gazprom press secretary Sergei Kupriyanov. But at the same time belonging
Miller categorically refused to comment on the mansion, that is, he neither confirmed nor denied it.
The trick is that this palace used to be on, but now it’s not there, see the photos at the end.
One can only guess how serious this person is that even Google is hiding this palace.
All residents of the village of Berezhki who agree to talk about the estate are sure that it is Miller’s palace. There are basically no other versions.
“This is definitely Miller’s palace. He even came here three or four times,” says Sergei, a Berezhkovka resident. Minority shareholder of Gazprom Alexey Navalny and former State Duma deputy, leader of the Moscow region branch of the Right Cause party Boris Nadezhdin confirmed that Miller owns the palace, citing their sources.
In the village of Berezhki, the palace and park ensemble is visible from everywhere. The main house, as it appears in the project documentation, flaunts in the very center of a gigantic plot of 31 hectares. The blue pseudo-baroque building is decorated with white vases along the perimeter of the roof. Most of the territory is surrounded by a high concrete fence. On the water side, the fence is mesh, and other buildings are clearly visible. An artificial canal (there is no water in it yet) leads from the palace to the pavilion; along it, on both sides, there is a French-style park with future fountains. There is also a garage and a turret with a weather vane of unclear purpose.
The administration of the rural settlement of Sokolovskoye, to which Berezhki belongs, claims that construction has been going on for about five years. The territory of 31.9 hectares (according to the Federal Real Estate Cadastre Agency) was purchased from local residents, who, as a result of privatization in the 90s, were given 1.5 hectares of land. On November 5, 2003, the government of the Moscow region changed the purpose of the site from “agricultural land” to “settlement land” (Resolution No. 642/40), which allowed construction to begin on it. According to the head of the administration, Marina Veremeenko, there were no complaints about the construction from local residents arrives. “Once upon a time, we went to the site to check because of complaints about garbage, but since then everything has been fine,” Veremeenko said. Residents of Berezhki, indeed, say that they have nothing against the construction of the local Peterhof (the palace is very reminiscent of it), “the main thing is that the river is not spoiled.”
Local resident Alexey says that several years ago he worked at a construction site and was paid very well there. “At first there were 600 workers here, but now there are about 300,” he says. Next to the palace, behind the same fence, the Istra Estate cottage community is being built. The customer of the project, as the sign says, is the company Stroygazconsulting, and the general contractor is CJSC Delor. Both the palace and the cottages are guarded by the same private security company, Stone. One of the guards, escorting the Gazeta.Ru correspondent away from the construction site, says that he is guarding an object of national importance, but what it is and who it belongs to, they say refuses. No more than six cottages and a church are being built in the village. Delors, where the correspondent called, does not deny the fact of construction, but refuses further comments. Locals are sure that “Miller’s friends” will live in the cottages around. Across the road, also behind a massive fence, are several more technical buildings and trailers for workers.
Stroygazconsulting is a large company (it employs almost 30 thousand people), specializing in infrastructure projects for Gazprom, in particular, it is engaged in the construction of gas pipelines (Nord Stream and others). The president of the company is Ziyad Manasir, who is on the latest list of the most rich businessmen of the Russian version of Forbes magazine ranks 75th with a fortune of $500 million. The magazine calls Manasir a person from Putin’s entourage. The co-owner of Stroygazconsulting is Olga Grigorieva, the daughter of ex-deputy director of the FSB and Putin’s friend Alexander Grigoriev (former head of the State Reserve, who died suddenly in December last year). The company, which Gazeta.Ru contacted, honestly admitted that they were building a “baroque palace,” but for our own purposes. “We are building a palace in the style of the 18th century for ourselves. It is not a copy of Peterhof; rather, it was taken from all known palaces. We have money and we decided to spend it this way. Most likely, we will hold receptions here and receive delegations,” Victoria Mironova, head of the public relations department, told Gazeta.Ru. According to her, the palace has nothing to do with Miller personally or with Gazprom as a whole. . Why a rather highly specialized contractor would need a gigantic reception house remains a mystery.
The author of the project for the improvement and landscaping of the Istra Estate Park is the Bruns-Park company. Gazprom is in first place on the list of its clients. The company confirmed that in 2006–2007 they developed a project for the park, and it was accepted, but they refused to name the customer. It is interesting that Mironova knows nothing about the construction of a cottage village. According to her, Stroygazconsulting is building only a palace on the shore of the Istrinsky reservoir. At the same time, the department of Stroygazconsulting, which is responsible specifically for this project, confirmed the fact of construction, stating that “the cottages are not for sale, since they already have owners.” Gazeta.Ru managed to obtain a project for the construction of the cottage village “Istrinskaya Usadba”, the customer which is Stroygazconsulting. The project of the village was approved on December 12, 2006 at a meeting of the urban planning commission of the Moscow regional government. The village was divided into three sections, the total area of which was more than 37 hectares (5.8 hectares of which are occupied by communications), of which the development occupies about 9 thousand square meters. m. In total, on the territory of the cottage village there should have been 26 buildings, of which 6 were residential buildings. According to the agreed project, only 25 people were supposed to live in the village.
However, on October 23, 2008, the urban planning commission again reviewed and approved a slightly modified project for the Istrinskaya Estate. The area remained the same, but the number of residential buildings increased and amounted to 11. There are just five houses on the territory of the palace and park ensemble. Unlike the cottages still under construction, the palace and other buildings of the ensemble have already been completed. The deputy head of the Solnechnogorsk district administration, Vladimir Zaitsev, who gave permission for the advanced construction of these five houses on the territory of the village, in a conversation with Gazeta.Ru, could not remember either the palace or the park, although he recalled the project of the Stroygazconsulting company. “We haven’t heard anything from them lately,” said Zaitsev. The approximate cost of the Istra Estate, as calculated by Gazeta.Ru with the help of real estate specialists, is $50 million, even taking into account the decline in the market.
“Over the past 15 years, about a hundred private palaces have been built in Russia,” writes Forbes, citing data from Olga Vologdina, editor of Salon Interior magazine. Among them is a mysterious palace in a classical style on the Istra Reservoir in the village of Berezhki near Moscow. According to some reports, it was built for Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexei Miller, although the company denies this.In the summer of 2009, a private pilot, flying over the Istra Reservoir in the Moscow region, took several photographs of a luxurious estate that had grown up on the outskirts of the village of Berezhki. The Blue Palace in the classical style, on the contrary, through a regular park with terraces and waterfalls, a smaller building, mounded hills and numerous buildings - all this is spread over an area of 16 hectares. The pilot posted the photos on the Internet, arousing great interest among bloggers. The most inquisitive of them went to the site, talked with the builders and local residents, after which a rumor spread: the palace was built for the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller. The name even stuck to the mansion Millergof, writes Forbes.
However, Gazprom disowned the palace. But, as the magazine notes, such a noticeable object, of course, could not be ownerless - a few months later, a Russian businessman originally from Jordan, Ziyad Manasir, told the press that the palace belonged to his company and was being built for his large family, which included five children.
Manasir is the main owner of the Stroygazconsulting holding, which, as Forbes points out, participated in the construction of Vladimir Putin's Black Sea residence "Riviera". The company, with revenues of 137 billion rubles, develops fields, lays gas and oil pipelines, builds compressor stations, roads and housing. Gazprom is the main customer of Stroygazconsulting (65% of turnover). Last year, Forbes estimated the entrepreneur’s fortune at $900 million and placed him in 78th place in the “Golden Hundred”.
The mansion in Berezhki was based on the palace of the Spanish king - Palacio Real de La Granja de San Ildefonso. The architects' task was to design a building in which receptions for 100 people could be held. “When we first started working on this project, we were given the customer’s wishes in the design brief - we were building a royal estate,” recalls Ilya Mochalov, first vice-president of the Association of Landscape Architects of Russia and head of the Bruns Park company, which was involved in landscaping and landscaping of the palace grounds. "territories.
According to Stroygazconsulting, the total construction estimate was $30 million. Independent experts say the amounts are twice as high. Natalya Kats, managing director of the Usadba real estate agency, estimates the cost of the estate at approximately $70 million.
The palace building in Berezhki was built in four years. In the fall of 2008, at the height of the crisis, some deficiencies remained to be eliminated, but due to difficulties with financing, the work was suspended. And in the summer of 2009, the pilot posted a photo of the estate on the Internet, after which a fuss arose. Since then, the palace has been preserved and is under protection. No one lives here, no events are held. Although, according to the chief architect of the Istra estate, Mikhail Tarapygin, “the house is completely ready and can receive its owner at any moment.”
Why doesn’t Manasir, who has invested tens of millions of dollars, use his residence near Moscow? Forbes sources, well familiar with the circumstances of the construction, claim that Stroygazconsulting nevertheless built an estate in Berezhki for the chairman of the board of Gazprom, Alexei Miller. It was also planned to hold official and semi-official events here - receptions, meetings, banquets for partners, balls, etc.
After the scandal in the media, informed sources of the magazine say, Gazprom decided not to tempt fate and refused the royal gift from Stroygazconsulting. And now in this company, as one of the sources says, “they don’t know what to do with the palace.”
It should also be remembered that for many years the palace was hidden from Google maps.
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