Oaks and estates. Mikhalkov estate. Estate "Mikhalkovo": description, history, location and interesting facts Where is Nikita Mikhalkov's dacha located
Without exaggeration Andrei Konchalovsky can be called a man of the world, he lives and works for so long in different countries: America, France, Italy, England, China.
But among hundreds of others, one place is especially dear to the director - a house on Nikolina Gora, half an hour’s drive from Moscow, where the Mikhalkov family has lived since 1951.
“It’s important to me that I live on Nikolina Gora, on this land,” says Andrei Konchalovsky. “After all, our family settled here more than 50 years ago, my brother and I had our own house, and our parents had theirs nearby. My youth passed here and so many vivid memories are associated with this place.
So it is not surprising that after spending many years away from this home in America and Europe, Andrei Sergeevich and his wife Yulia returned to the “family nest”. More precisely, in 2000, Konchalovsky and Vysotskaya decided to move from Los Angeles to a dacha near Moscow just for the summer months.
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However, instead of the summer months, the couple spent a whole year on Nikolina Gora, after which they decided that they would finally move here to live. Andrei Sergeevich felt great in his home, but Yulia took a long time to get used to the new place.” Even before this arrival, I had seen the house on Nikolina Gora: one day Andrei Sergeevich and I were driving past, and he pointed through the open gate: “Look, look, That’s where our dacha is.” They just didn’t go in because everything was dug up there, construction of the dacha was going on Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov.
“Now the brothers’ dachas stand opposite each other: Nikita Sergeevich rebuilt the house where he and his brother once lived, and Andrei Sergeevich took over his mother’s house. And when we moved here, everything was cozy,” Yulia continues the story, “but the house is still It seemed to me not only uninhabited, but alien. First, I started washing, scrubbing, and cleaning everything, because when you come to a new place, you want it to “smell like you.” And then the idea was born to rebuild it, I wanted something on scale.
For example, the kitchen turned out to be too small, and when guests came, everything turned into chaos.” Konchalovsky had long wanted to make a spacious hall and library in the house. When the director returned to Russia in the early 90s, he built a third floor over the two floors, where his office is now located.
But Konchalovsky set himself a difficult task: in no case did he want to radically change his mother’s house, so the new part had to fit completely into the overall picture. But now the director proudly says that not a single board in the old part had changed, he succeeded combine elements of old and new. Although some redevelopment parent part occurred: where it used to be kitchen, - children's bathroom; instead of a veranda - now winter Garden, and also in this part of the house - couple's bedrooms, cabinet Konchalovsky and sports room.
And the new part of the house is mainly a living room, above which, on the balcony, there is a library, and in the basement there is a spacious kitchen and dining room.
Konchalovsky had virtually no disputes with Yulia over what their common home should look like.
Maybe a couple of times. “In general, I don’t know anything about architecture, so my husband came up with the whole concept of the house,” admits the actress. “But sometimes I still interfered.” For example, those arches in the living room, which I now really like, disgusted me before construction.
And I am very glad that my husband did not agree with me and did it his own way.
But the kitchen, dining room, my bathroom and bedroom were decorated the way I wanted.” Julia decided that the kitchen should be in Provencal style. After looking through dozens of books, she chose the cabinets, chairs, tables she liked, and sketched sketches, based on which Russian craftsmen made furniture. The idea for decorating the dining room, located next to the kitchen, was given... two carved chairs from three hundred years ago.
Based on them, we made all the furniture in the dining room - both similar chairs and a large dining table. And just based on how her bathroom should look, Yulia did not find support from her husband: “I wanted it to have logs and even a wooden floor, thinking that I would be very neat, I wouldn’t even take a shower, but just lie in the bathroom by candlelight. But Andrei Sergeevich convinced me, saying that it was unreasonable. Now it’s warm, dark stone.”
Andrei Konchalovsky was entirely responsible for the filling of the house - what the exterior and interior decoration would be like. “My husband loves old furniture, but it’s just important for me that it is cozy and nice,” explains Vysotskaya. And to confirm her words, the director adds: “In our house, with the exception of computers and players, there are no modern things.
I don't like modern, which makes me feel like I'm in a gynecologist's waiting room. I don’t like medical cleanliness, because life itself is not sterile. In addition, I am not a supporter of one style in the interior, so there is no single style in the house, no furniture sets. Everything is together, everything is mixed, just like in life. Of course, items are taken away, but it’s still a free flight.”
Almost nothing was purchased specifically for the house on Nikolina Gora. Much was brought here from the former places where the Konchalovsky couple lived. So, an armchair from the beginning of the last century was bought a long time ago at a Los Angeles flea market, and a brand new sofa moved from the same city.
The richest and most famous court film director in Russia built an estate for himself in the village of Shchepachikha, Nizhny Novgorod region. Here on the shore of Lake Istra near Mikhalkov there is an estate with a log manor house, a chapel, a stable and large hunting grounds guarded by their rangers. A correspondent from Sobesednik gathered to take at least one look at the lordly life.
No entry
A one-lane asphalt road leads to Shchepachikha, sandwiched between the Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod regions. If you move along it without turning, you run into a sign “No Trespassing! Private properties. Protected by law." Fifty meters later the outbuildings begin. It’s easy to spot any strangers here.
A guard comes out of the first house and asks what I need. I answer that I heard that there is a temple here, so I’m going to pray.
– What if you are a journalist? Admit who you work for, show your documents,” he says.
I really don’t look like a pilgrim: jeans instead of a skirt, without a scarf or even a cross. Having called the authorities, the security guard turns away from the gate, but I manage to see the open garage, in which there is a line of UAZ cars and a fire truck with a flashing light. As I’m leaving, I’m trying to take pictures, and someone rushes after me: “Aha-ah, with a camera!”, but no one rushes to catch up with me with a gun at the ready and take away the equipment.
Shchepachikha is a big village, the houses are good. There are summer residents, but there are also many locals. The villagers work on the estate; you won’t get an extra word about Mikhalkov from them: he pays well, but there is no other work in the area.
“You try to take a different road, behind our house,” advised a summer resident from Dzerzhinsk. “There are no security booths here, the locals go into the forest to pick berries and mushrooms and go to the lake to swim, no one is chasing us.”
According to the woman, the Shchepachikha residents live peacefully with their famous neighbor, there are no troubles from him, only benefits. On the advice of ecologists, Mikhalkov brought and released into the forests all kinds of fauna, from wild boars to birds, raised carp and other fish in reservoirs, but most importantly, he installed gas! The authorities only promised to provide gasification for twenty years.
Praying with the people
I walk along the forest road carefully, looking at my feet. The press wrote that the perimeter of the estate was guarded by poisonous vipers and copperheads. Mikhalkov allegedly scattered them himself from a helicopter so that no one would poke their nose into his life. There are really a lot of snakes in these places, but I doubt it’s the director’s fault. I only came across a fat cat and a lizard; the poor thing was more scared of my sneakers than I was of her.
On Lake Istra a fish bites every five minutes. From the swimming bridge you can clearly see the veranda on the very shore. In the evenings, Mikhalkov rides around the lake on a scooter or boat. A stream flows from Istra to Oka. As the villagers joke, from Shchepachikha you can get to America by water.
Not far from the lake, behind a simple outskirts, there is an outbuilding and a stable, it is guarded by a huge dog on a chain, and chickens walk around the territory. The Mikhalkov manor house was built in Russian style, and recently built the chapel of St. Tryphon, the patron saint of hunters. Shchepachikha old women are allowed into the chapel. It happens that Mikhalkov himself prays surrounded by people.
On the shore of the lake I meet a man who has bathed. Andrey is a boxing coach from the city of Pavlovo, his niece takes horse riding lessons from the Mikhalkov grooms. One lesson costs only 300 rubles.
“Nikita is generally a big liberal,” says Andrey. – He allows his employees a lot of things. And you should have seen how he picturesquely greets and hugs the men! But if something goes wrong, immediately kick it in the ass.
Hunting with friends
“He loves to ride through the meadows on horseback in a rubber cart,” said an elderly Shchepachikha resident. “We see him less often in the village, but when he passes by on horseback, he will definitely nod, or even stop, and ask how life is. He doesn't turn his head away from us.
They say that Nikita Sergeevich comes every year to the village festival and gives gifts to the locals.
Shchepachikha has long been accustomed to the faces of celebrities. At first, Sergei Yastrzhembsky visited Mikhalkov, they saw the presenter of “Morning Star” Yuri Nikolaev, a man similar to Vasya Rogov... And about three years ago, Medvedev flew to Mikhalkov by helicopter, stayed for two hours and flew away.
As soon as stars from Moscow arrive in Shchepachikha, they immediately go on a dairy diet. There are a couple of cows on the estate.
Hunting is Mikhalkov’s favorite pastime. An avid hunter from Pavlovo, who was at one time close to the court, told me about her. Valery Safronov is known for giving Nikita Sergeevich a set of hunting knives with sheaths decorated with scenes from his films.
“Mikhalkov’s hunting is at the highest level,” says Safronov. “He recruited highly professional huntsmen, they know the whole forest with their eyes closed. They are well armed, equipped with all-terrain vehicles and other equipment. Anyone can hunt, you just need to buy a ticket. At Mikhalkov’s it is 20–30% more expensive than at other farms, but it’s worth it. There are guest houses, a kitchen, and more animals.
Hunting on the estate is a long tradition. Nikita Sergeevich has his own places, which the huntsmen reserve only for him. There he hunts with friends. After the “Central Russian safari”, the participants gather, cook shul from the hunted game, sit down at a common table, tell jokes, in the men’s circle, naturally, they cannot do without drinking, and at dawn, cheerful, they have fun shooting bottles.
Valery Safronov is proud that he hunted with Dmitry Dyuzhev, “Mikhalkov’s favorite student.” Going hunting with Nikita Sergeevich’s guests is a happy chance for many; in a friendly atmosphere, you can resolve personal issues with the powers that be.
It happens, and it makes you angry
In Shchepachikha, no one will say anything bad about Mikhalkov, he is both king and god here: he provided gas, raised livestock, revived the sawmill, gave work. In the neighboring village of Tumbotino, many also work for him as security guards and rangers.
Nikita Sergeevich is sometimes seen in the Annunciation Church, he gives to the needs of the church, he is friendly with the rector, Father Andrei, who confesses him separately from everyone else in the altar. Mikhalkov is known for his piety. He donated money for the golden domes of the Church of the Resurrection, on the left bank of the Oka River in Pavlovo, and helps the convent in Ababkovo. At the same time, Mikhalkov’s Orthodoxy is combined with an absurd character. As residents of Tumbotino say, on Easter one of the servants broke an egg on the fence, the director called him over, ordered him to bend over and kicked him...
Looks like Mikhalkov. The master did this not only at his estate, but also in Moscow.
our certificate
The Mikhalkov estate occupies 7 hectares and is valued at $15 million. On the territory there is a manor house, a chapel, a stable, a garage, a two-story guest house, and a pheasant farm. In addition, 29 thousand hectares of land were leased for 49 years to Temino Lesnoye LLC (headed by Mikhalkov’s assistant, producer Denis Baglay) - these are the Tumbotinskoye and Stepankovskoye forestries.
Let's get together!..
The village, a little over 10 kilometers from the town of Pavlovo-on-Oka, was once named for its specialty - “splitting” substandard wood into pine shingles - is now known in the area exclusively as the place where Nikita Mikhalkov built his estate. The most titled and, perhaps, the richest Russian cinematographer has now settled on a peculiar peninsula among the Oka oxbows and bends for several years now. From Shchepachikha, still a populous village with empty general store counters, but in the sight of a fading village, a smooth asphalt road leads to the estate. It's one-lane - two cars can't pass each other on it. Well, outsiders are not allowed there - in the middle of the swamps (tested by practice) any outsider will be met and politely escorted home. And the flash drive will be taken away from the photographer altogether, just in case.
And don’t say that you weren’t warned: before entering the almost “Baskerville” swamps, there is a poster copied from the American one, but written in Russian: “Passage is prohibited. Private property." Some of the locals, however, know an alternative route - it requires a boat and a lot of courage. The guards, of whom Nikita Sergeevich has several dozen, are armed, according to the Shchepachikha residents, with “50-round” carbines and do not like to joke. So, if you were not invited to Mikhalkov, you have to turn back from the flat asphalt road - to the village, where the asphalt ends and the “minefield” traditional for spring Russia begins.
It is all the more interesting that both inside - on a magnificent, ethnic-style manor house with numerous services - and outside, in the working-class village of Tumbotin and several other nearby villages - things are quite positive. Life goes on, people work, the “master” himself is very respected. It's just vipers, you know...
The idea of rural wit
There is a joke in the village that Nikita Sergeevich released vipers into the forest to protect his possessions. “Okay, all the rangers at Mikhalkov’s, our locals, warned us,” a local resident, mason Andrey, told SP. “Otherwise someone would definitely have been bitten.” Now children who come from the city will have to be driven away from there.”
Why snakes were released along the boundaries of the site - the locals have no doubt: “so that just anyone would not walk around.” Few people are offended by the “master” - mainly women, who will now have to worry about their children and goats, who may accidentally suffer from Mikhalkov’s “battle bastards.” The men reason more thoroughly: if I had the same estate, I would do the same. But really, all sorts of people are walking around! Those of the richer villagers (mostly summer residents from Nizhny) even imitate - the cottages here come across with a twist, one is built into an English castle, the other into a log tower.
The main line of defense of the estate from outsiders is, of course, not vipers and copperheads, but huntsmen and guards from local residents. “No, no Tajiks, only our guys,” says Alexey from Tumbotin, who apparently works on the estate himself, but does not like to discuss this with outsiders. “In winter we use snowmobiles, now we use ATVs, and there are also several horses that help with hunting.” The whole region is talking about the powerful and expensive carbines of the guards (Pavlovo and the surrounding areas have long lived by the production of weapons and hardware, so everyone knows a lot about iron). Their number is no more than a hundred, but not a couple of dozen, or rather, no one counted.
The salary they receive is “no worse than us,” says mason Andrey. In rubles this is about 20 thousand per month, perhaps a little more. The “viciousness” of the guards can be explained simply by the strict system of fines. “There was a case here recently, poachers shot a young wild boar, but the huntsman didn’t keep track. I was left without a salary for a month; the boar was worth that much.” The entry of outsiders, presumably, is fined no more lightly...
In the taste of sweet old times
The estate of Nikita Mikhalkov itself is divided into two unequal parts. The first - the estate itself with the main house, guest cottages, house church, stables and other services, with a pier on one of the Oka oxbows - occupies 115 hectares, the second - the Tyomino hunting farm, named after the son of Nikita Sergeevich - is almost a thousand times larger . Initially, the area of the farm transferred to the director for long-term use was 37,000 hectares, then it was expanded to 140 thousand hectares.
“The house was built very well, in an old style. Chopped, do you hear! Not Schmeiding siding, but real chopped siding, who can do that now!..,” say almost enthusiastically the Shchepachikhinsky and Tumbotinsky men who cover their own houses with siding, installing double-glazed windows. It’s cheaper and easier - you don’t have to bother with insulating windows and painting the house every year. But purely aesthetically, Mikhalkov and his buildings are approved by almost everyone who saw them. And the restoration of the church in Tumbotin, in which the “master” wholeheartedly invested, is, whatever one may say, a matter pleasing to God. True, when asked how many people visit this church outside of Christmas and Easter, the Tumbotin residents hesitated somewhat. Not much, apparently.
The director himself said many times that when building his estate, he was guided by the mansion of appanage princes and boyars of the pre-Petrine era - and the stylization, apparently, turned out even more successful than the recently built “palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich” in Kolomenskoye. Moreover, the stylization turned out not to be blindly imitative, but creative and adequate to the needs - the log mansion was not surrounded by a palisade, the service buildings were not crowded around the mansion, as was the case in real boyar estates.
The guest quarters were also not integrated into the main manor house, as is generally customary in Russian estates, but were built separately (and the largest guest house is a real hotel, according to those who visited the estate, designed for 400 - 500 guests). “Everyone,” as the mason Andrei puts it, visits Mikhalkov—Putin, Medvedev, numerous actors, and regional authorities. “Shantsev, for example, never comes here - he flies. Because to get here from Pavlov you have to take a ferry, and the road is bad. So he’s in a helicopter.”
The main entertainment in the estate is quite traditional for the large aristocracy: horse riding, riding yachts, troikas and snowmobiles, hunting. True, hunting is more rifle hunting than the more aristocratic hunting with dogs or falcons (although there are such opportunities on the estate) - in the circle of the Sheremetevs or Yusupovs of the century before last, Mikhalkov would be called “small-grass”... But with the newfangled “Tiger” all-terrain vehicles, like those of the elite riot police - a patriotic analogue of Hummers, each costing 5-6 million rubles.
Slowly, the estate and hunting farms are beginning economically meaningful activities - for example, dumplings with minced boar and elk meat go to the table not only for guests of the estate itself, but are also served in the Rus restaurant, the most upscale of three or four restaurants in Pavlov. They are called “Tyominskie” and cost an impressive 500 rubles per serving by local standards. The amount of game in the Mikhalkov forests has already become a local legend - fortunately, almost no one dares to poach - and this means that, if desired, the hunting area can be fully loaded with elite visitors and earn a lot of money.
Another profitable function of the Mikhalkov estate, apparently, is to serve as a film set for the director’s films. It was here - more precisely, next to the hunting farm, in the village of Polyany - that most of the scenes of the now-released "Citadel" - the conclusion of the military saga about Divisional Commander Kotov - were filmed. A fake bridge and a church were blown up here, a large film crew was stationed here, and villagers were paid 2-3 thousand rubles for the inconvenience. Presumably, the proximity of the shooting to his own estate helped the director save a lot from the $50 million budget announced for Citadel. And, of course, it’s more pleasant to work within your own walls.
What the estate does not have is an agricultural component. This circumstance sharply separates the Mikhalkov estate from the traditional Russian type of landowner farming - almost everywhere in post-Petrine Russia there were landowner fields, and the pre-Petrine boyars did not disdain land ownership. Hunting and other “purely aristocratic” types of thought were limited only to the appanage princes of the pre-Moscow period - they really were not interested in agriculture and did not organize large-scale “agricultural holdings”, preferring to hunt and take tribute from the subject population.
Patrimonian or favorite
So, among the picturesque bends of the lower Oka, not far from Nizhny Novgorod, one of the most famous people in Russia built a real manorial estate, of noticeable scale even by the standards of Tsarist Russia. What is most interesting is that we are talking not only about the external, but also about the functional stylization of large-scale land ownership of the past. But until recently, this seemed impossible to someone.
The “physiology”, that is, the functioning, of the Mikhalkov estate deserves a separate analysis. The main function of this place is to be the owner’s residence, a place to relax and receive guests, to represent Mikhalkov’s personality and tastes to those whose opinion he is interested in. The director is naturally not interested in the opinions of villagers and city dwellers, which is why the estate is closed from them—from us.
This was precisely the main goal of the most magnificent estates and palaces of former Russia - the residences of the Sheremetevs, Yusupovs, Bobrinskys. The most famous of them - Kuskovo, Ostankino, Yaropolets, Bogoroditsk - surpassed the Mikhalkov estate in scope.
Another thing is that the largest nobles of tsarist times owned not only residences, but also huge plots of agricultural land, where serfs or hired peasants produced what Marx would call a “surplus product” for the landowners. As a rule, the huge steppe fields in the Black Earth Region and Novorossia were not directly related to the Moscow or Crimean residences of princes and counts, but belonged to the same persons and, to a certain extent, brought the main income to the owners. Mikhalkov does not have such “working” land - that is, agricultural holdings.
The main cinematographer of the Russian state, however, uses another source of wealth, no less traditional for the Russian (and, in general, the European, post-medieval era) nobility: proximity to power. Nikita Mikhalkov - this is hardly disputed - courtier an aristocrat, moreover, hereditary and successful by the highest standard. In almost all times (at least since the era of Ivan the Terrible), well-born and successful dignitaries at court lived on a much larger scale than the income from their own households allowed them - and the “cash gap” was always eliminated by grants “from the royal shoulder.” Money, land, serfs - the stories of Catherine’s favorites Orlov and Potemkin are well known, who spent more than anyone in Russia could imagine, but received incomparably more as a gift from the crown.
On the contrary, no matter how well-born boyars and nobles, deprived here and now of the highest favor and “bypassed” at court, over the course of a couple of decades were bled dry, became “impoverished”, dropped out of the high society “vanity fair”...
No, successful estate farming in Russia is possible (both then and now) - according to the formula “cherries were dried and sent to Moscow by carts.” But examples of such successful land ownership in the estate format were demonstrated not by the largest nobles, but rather by strong and well-born “middle peasants”. Such were, say, successful landowners Lev Tolstoy, Afanasy Fet and Nikolai Nekrasov. It is interesting that, as SP wrote, in Yasnaya Polyana, estate life and economy have been practically restored, and from an economic point of view, Tolstoy’s estate is much more independent, autonomous and tenacious without “court” support than Mikhalkov’s residence.
But what will happen to the estate of the head of the Union of Cinematographers in the event of his unexpected disgrace - well, say, if those at the top decide to radically change the style from "imperial" to "anti-imperial" - is not very clear. Perhaps the guest house with 500 beds could be converted into a good hotel, and the hunting ground could be opened for free access - at a considerable cost - to the public. Then - if the land granted by the state is left to the landowner - Mikhalkov will survive, just as the disgraced boyars and nobles survived in their estates.
In the absence of "Dubrovsky"
After all, it’s a strange thing - the director only has to fear changes in the situation “at the top.” Village residents generally respect Mikhalkov. You won’t hear any bad words about Mikhalkov in the vicinity of the estate - except that the Old Believers, who have been living in the vicinity of Pavlov-on-Oka since ancient times, were outraged for several years by the “debauchers” from the Mikhalkov estate, who swam naked and were not embarrassed by the local residents.
In the minds of the inhabitants of Shchepachikha and the surrounding area, Mikhalkov took the place of the “father-master” that had been empty for one and a half hundred years - and it was as if fifteen decades had not passed since the abolition of serfdom. And now the well-known Vorsmen master Valery Safonov makes an offering to Nikita Sergeevich - a damask hunting set with inlay and chasing in the form of the “life” of film actor Mikhalkov, where the stamps include walking around Moscow and a shaggy bumblebee on fragrant hops. And so local officials - in the person of Governor Valery Shantsev - on his birthday “grant” the master several dozen more hectares of land for the construction of that same 500-bed hotel.
Mikhalkov enjoys a reputation as a strict but fair owner. Maybe because he loves his land and decorates it better than everyone else within the reach of the Shchepachikha and Tumbotin people. “At least Mikhalkov takes care of the forest, doesn’t cut it down, he has animals there,” says Shchepachikha resident Uncle Petya. - With his own money, and how he earns it is his business. But look around, everything has already been cut down and is being sold on the stump. Of course, they are planting a new forest, but it will still grow…”
He takes care of the forest, gets animals, builds a cozy house, pays money to local residents (rather than importing strangers). Mikhalkov is perhaps the only powerful person in today’s Russia who, at least at the estate level, is playing “the long game.” And the fact that at the same time he treats his own fellow citizens approximately as Kirill Petrovich Troekurov treats small-scale neighbors - Mikhalkov’s neighbors, apparently, simply do not know any other attitude. Dubrovsky is not in the vicinity of Shchepachikha and, apparently, is not expected.
Once upon a time, Nikolina Gora was not considered a prestigious place. There was an ordinary village here - Nikolskoye on Pesku. The river crossing is by pontoon; in winter we walked on ice. But since the 20s of the last century, a holiday village appeared on this territory. In which at different times lived such representatives of the cultural elite as Veresaev, Novikov-Priboy, Prokofiev, Richter, Khrennikov, Kapitsa, Schmidt... And since 1949, the MIKHALKOV clan, over whose nest our unique “aerial” paparazzi flew in a helicopter Boris KUDRYAVOV.
Sergei Mikhalkov rarely comes to Nikolina Gora - after all, he is old. But his son Nikita has been living in this picturesque place for 50 years, visiting Moscow only on business, and remembers how wonderfully he spent time here with his grandfather.
“He was a real landowner in the true Russian meaning of the word,” said the famous director in an interview.
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He didn’t accept electricity, in the evenings he lit a kerosene lamp, sat me next to him and played Mozart, Bach, sang arias from famous operas or read entire pages of Pushkin by heart...
True, nothing remains of the old building. About ten years ago it was broken down, and in its place Nikita Sergeevich erected a more modern building. “In my opinion, the house successfully combines elements of new and old,” he says. - Many parts of the house are made of walnut, because a wooden house creates a cozy atmosphere. For example, my kitchen is made in a post-war style, although the materials used are modern. The kitchen is connected to a fireplace room, and on the ground floor there is a sauna with a steam room and a plunge pool. The second floor is exclusively sleeping. The resting rooms are small, but there are several of them. And there are six toilets for the whole house.
"Walker" Konchalovsky
On the Mikhalkovs' hectare-sized plot there are two more houses that belong to Andrei Konchalovsky, Nikita's brother. Andrei Sergeevich has too many relatives...
The exterior was left untouched, although everything inside was redone. He moved the partitions, the staircase, covered everything with “antique” wood, built a bar counter in the kitchen... But after divorcing his next wife, he built a new building. All that was left of the old one was the Dutch stove with tiles. Few people have heard that on the land of the Mikhalkovs there is a grave of a soldier who died in the Great Patriotic War. Local residents do not know under what circumstances she appeared here. It is only known that the inscription on the tombstone reads: “Lieutenant Alexey Surmenev. Died on December 5, 1941." Every year on May 9, veterans living nearby lay flowers at the grave. Someone, perhaps with the help of the Mikhalkovs, found the hero’s relatives. They came to worship the ashes of the hero from Siberia. In general, the attitude towards the Mikhalkovs on Nikolina Gora is contradictory. On the one hand, they remember here that Andrei and Nikita, as teenagers, together with their peers, built a monument to fallen soldiers on the territory of the village.
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TEMPLE OF ST. NICHOLAS: located in the village of Aksinino, not far from the Mikhalkovs, and Nikita Sergeevich patronizes it |
In 2017, Nikita Mikhalkov was recognized as the largest real estate owner among cultural representatives. He declared an apartment in the capital of 207.8 m², 6 residential buildings, the small one has a total area of 68.5 m², the large one - 697.3 m². In addition, on his property there is a summer house of 554.2 m². We listed only premises suitable for habitation, and did not talk about other real estate, which is valued at an impressive amount. Fans are interested not only in their estimated value, but also - it can say a lot about its owner. Today, in our review of the site, we will reveal all the secrets of Nikita Mikhalkov’s country mansion.
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Family estate of Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov’s country house on Nikolina Gora was built on the site of an old building that had fallen into disrepair. Here he spends almost all his free time and always strives to escape from the metropolis to his own.
Nikita Mikhalkov's estate has a story
In past times, Nikolina Gora was not considered an elite place; first there was a graveyard, then a monastery of the same name, which over time acquired houses and became a real Russian village. In the 20s of the last century, construction began in this place for representatives of the cultural nobility. Richter, Prokofiev, Veresaev were the first to move here, and only in 1949 did the Mikhalkov clan settle.
Second floor of Nikita Mikhalkov's country house
The second floor of the estate is reserved exclusively for the artist’s and his families. The rooms are quite small, but there are several of them, and everyone can relax from the bustle of the city in privacy. The office is decorated in a restrained classic palette; rare family photos and interesting footage from the director’s filming were used as decoration.
This is interesting! There are 6 toilets built throughout the singer’s house.
Conclusion
As you can see, Nikita Mikhalkov put his whole soul into the construction and decoration of the country estate, which became a real family estate. The entire interior is made in a classic design with elements of natural liberty. Smooth combinations of directions are close to nature, this was the main task of the artist - to create a cozy family hearth. The director is proud of his creation and considers it the best for relaxation.
