Forbes magazine has compiled a list of the most expensive London real estate owned by Russians. On the first line is the mansion of the most famous Russian in England (of course, after Sergei Skripal) - Roman Abramovich. Bought by him for 90 million pounds in 2011, the house is now valued at almost twice as much - 170 million pounds. He also owns an apartment and a parking space for 85,000 pounds.
In the possession of our compatriots were houses in which many prominent personalities lived: the American tycoon Jean Paul Getty, Guy Ritchie and Madonna, the writer Bernard Shaw. Since Foggy Albion has more than once become a haven for disgraced Russian oligarchs, dubious millions were often invested in London real estate. For example, one of the most expensive estates in the country - Park Place with an area of 80 hectares with a 300-year-old estate was bought by the ex-head of the Bank of Moscow, Andrei Borodin, in 2011.
Almost all the real estate of Russian oligarchs has increased significantly in price since the moment of purchase. The most profitable investment was the purchase by Olga Slutsker and her ex-husband of a house for 6 million pounds in 2000. After the divorce, Olga got the property, and now its price is at least 70 million pounds.
Roman Abramovich
Mansion cost: £170m
The mansion is located on the famous "street of billionaires" Kensington Palace Gardens. In 2014, the house ranked 9th among the most expensive mansions in the world according to CompareCamp.
Apartment price: £30m
In addition, the Chelsea owner owns a 557 square meter apartment with panoramic views of the Thames. The building houses Abramovich's £85,000 parking space.
Andrey Guryev
Mansion cost: £150m
The Witanhurst estate was built at the beginning of the 20th century, its area is about 8,000 square meters, which makes it the second largest palace in London after Buckingham.
Penthouse price: £60m
Senator Guriev also owns a five-story penthouse in a 181-meter skyscraper. According to The Guardian, the oligarch was going to place an Orthodox chapel in the apartment.
Andrey Borodin
Mansion cost: £150m
In 2016, the Tver court decided that one of the most expensive houses in the UK was bought with money illegally withdrawn from the Bank of Moscow by its then head, Andrei Borodin.
Andrey Goncharenko
Mansion cost: £130m
The house of the former top manager of Gazprom, with an area of 250 square meters, is located in one of the main royal parks in London.
Mansion cost: £105m
He also owns a mansion in central London, built in 1827. In this building, Goncharenko plans to open a club with paid membership, a spa, a hotel and two restaurants.
Mansion cost: £25m
Another object of Goncharenko, included in the Forbes list, is the 1825 mansion. He bought it in 2014, and three years later it was taken over by activists who planned to turn it into a shelter for the homeless.
Anton Fedun
Hotel price: £100m
The owner of Spartak and shareholder of LUKoil, Leonid Fedun, bought The Ampersand Hotel in central London in a terrible state and gave it to his son Anton.
Olga Slutsker
Mansion cost: £70m
Not only the wife of Joseph Bezos successfully divorced. The owner of the World Class clubs, Olga Slutsker, received a mansion in London after her divorce from businessman Vladimir Slutsker.
Alexander Lebedev
Mansion cost: £20m
Elena Perminova's husband Alexander Lebedev bought Stud House in 2007 for $16 million. Now his son Eugene lives in the house, actively leading a social life in London.
Vladimir Chernukhin
Mansion cost: £85m
The 6-storey mansion of the ex-head of Vnesheconombank is notable for the fact that the final scenes of the film “007: Goldfinger” were filmed here.
Alisher Usmanov
Mansion cost: £60m
Alisher Usmanov bought the 1840 mansion from the former Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
Mansion cost: £50m
Another mansion of the owner of the Mail Group in Surrey was previously owned by one of the most famous tycoons in the world - Jean Paul Getty.
Mikhail Fridman
Mansion cost: £65m
The owner of a 15-billion fortune plans to spend 80 million pounds on the reconstruction of a 19th-century mansion. The Victorian-era Athlone House is located next to Hampstead Heath.
Igor Altushkin
Mansion cost: £15m
"Copper King" Igor Altushkin, arriving in the capital of Great Britain, stops at the former mansion of Guy Ritchie and Madonna. The star couple lived in this house before the divorce.
Peter Aven
The cost of the mansion : £30m
It is in this estate that Peter Aven keeps his famous collection of paintings, which includes works by Kandinsky, Vrubel, Annenkov and many other outstanding artists.
Evgeny Chichvarkin
Mansion cost: £15m
Having bought an estate in Surrey, Evgeny Chichvarkin decided to build a playground. Due to unauthorized construction, the businessman started having problems with local authorities. This is not Makhachkala for you, Eugene ...
Igor Shuvalov
Apartment price: £10m
Former Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov owns a 500-meter apartment near the Palace of Westminster. The famous playwright Bernard Shaw lived in this house, and the headquarters of the British intelligence service MI6 was also located in this house.
On the site of the former building of the Kommersant publishing house, ZAO Vrubel 4 (the name matches the address of the house) will build a residential complex with an underground parking lot, two brokers who worked with him and an employee of the Moscow mayor's office said. According to the latter, at the end of November the company received a certificate of approval of the architectural and urban planning solution for this project. Part of the building was demolished yesterday.
Vrubel 4 is now the owner of the building occupied by Kommersant, a representative of Moskomstroyinvest said. This company, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, was founded by the owner of the publishing house Alisher Usmanov. His representative declined to comment.
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On st. Vrubel, a multifunctional complex of 30,000 sq. m, which will include offices (including the publishing house itself) and housing, two people close to Kommersant said in 2015. Now, apparently, they decided to abandon the offices. The website of the Sibzarubezhstroy company, which developed the concept of the project, says only about a residential complex with an underground parking lot with a total area of 32,754 sq. m.
A representative of Kommersant declined to comment on plans to return the publishing house to its original location. Employees in the publishing house told Vedomosti that various options were being discussed, but there was no final decision. Now the editorial office, along with other companies of Usmanov, is located in the Profiko business center on Rublevsky Highway.
On Vrubel, 4, it is logical to build a residential complex, not offices, says the managing partner of Metrium, Maria Litinetskaya. “The site is located in the prestigious Sokol district with convenient access to Leningradsky Prospekt,” she says. Due to its proximity to the center, the abundance of green spaces, the Sokol district has been extremely popular among homebuyers for several decades, adds Litinetskaya.
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In addition, the economic return from the sale of apartments today is much higher than from the sale of offices, adds the chairman of the board of directors of Best Novostroy, Irina Dobrokhotova. She estimates investments in the construction of a residential complex on the site of the former Kommersant building at 1.7 billion rubles, while the minimum proceeds from the sale of apartments in a business class facility will be 6.4 billion rubles.
“The initial average price in such a project can be 250,000 rubles. for 1 sq. m", and by the end of construction it can grow up to 300,000 rubles. for 1 sq. m in ordinary apartments and up to 400,000 rubles. for 1 sq. m in species (penthouses), says the leading analyst of CIAN Alexander Pypin. In his opinion, if there are about 400 apartments in the complex, the company can fully sell them in three years - but with a competent pricing policy. The fact is that in the nearby complex "Marshal" on the street. Marshal Rybalko still has about 250 apartments and suites for sale, he explains.
Alisher Usmanov is one of the ten richest people in the country, of course it is interesting, at least with one eye, to see how high-ranking officials live. Thanks to modern technologies, this can be done while lying on the couch, because photos and videos of Alisher Usmanov's chic house in Tashkent have appeared on the Internet.
outside view
If you look at the building from the outside, it is difficult to call it a house, rather it is a palace built in the European style, but using oriental motifs. In the decoration there is a national ornament, which was used in the construction of ancient Bukhara.
On the site there is a chic pool, which resembles a natural reservoir, its edges are finished with marble and granite. Around the pool you can see soft sunbeds, which are very convenient to take air baths. The lamps are arranged so that in the evening the palace looks especially beautiful and romantic.
Interesting!
It is impossible to understand how many floors are in the house from the outside, it can only be seen that some extensions are higher than the rest.
Interior decoration
Upon entering the house, you find yourself in a spacious hall lined with tiles resembling a chessboard. The walls are painted white, here begins a spiral staircase, also in black and white, through which you can climb to the upper floors, its wrought-iron railings have gilded decorative elements. On the second floor, the staircase forks in two directions, and leads to different rooms of the palace. The high ceiling and walls are decorated with crystal lamps.
The spacious living room is more like a Sultan's room, armchairs, a sofa with cushions. The wall is decorated with a picture very similar to Danaë of the great Titian, but only slightly covered, which is in a state of sensual languor.
For reference!
The original of this canvas is in the Hermitage, but there are doubts that a copy hangs in the house of such a rich person, but here you need to ask the opinion of professionals, maybe this is another version of Danae Titian, especially since there are still some differences from the original.
There is a fireplace on the other side of the room, but whether it is electric or wood-fired, one can only guess. The floor is covered with a carpet, in general, a beautiful and cozy room, flashy luxury is not observed here.
The mansion has 10 guest rooms and 6 bedrooms, one of the six can be seen in the photo. Its floor, as in the whole house, is made of natural wood, in the center there is a spacious double bed, next to it is a bedside table with a lamp. Of course, this work of art can be called a bedside table with a stretch, it is clear that this is expensive furniture with inlay. Near the window there is a cozy sofa with pillows, next to a small table.
A canvas of a naked woman also hangs above the bed, and it certainly belongs to the brush of a venerable artist. A false ceiling completes this magnificence.
Note!
Alisher Usmanov's office is adorned with a massive table and a leather armchair, elements of gilding are visible everywhere, even all stationery is made of gold. Each, even the smallest detail in the palace carries artistic value.
One of the kitchens shown looks rather modest, the set is ivory, the floor is also made in the form of a chessboard, in the center there is a small, round table and 4 chairs with high backs. Although, if we assume that the businessman lives alone with his wife, then there will be enough space for breakfast.
In the video of Usmanov's house, you can see another kitchen, but already in blue, it is decorated with a high, false ceiling, but the table for eating is also small.
Interesting!
There are many small rooms in the palace, they are decorated in different ways, but they are united by the presence of a tiny, round table and two armchairs of a rather unusual shape.
The mansion has many exotic flowers, a huge heart-shaped pool with waterfalls, and massage rooms. All plumbing fixtures in the toilet rooms are gilded. The entrances to the pool are made in the form of arches made of stained glass; here you can see a table with chairs, which, as it were, are inside a tent with columns.
There is even a chic cinema hall with a large, retractable screen, a huge underground parking lot, it is rather difficult to say how many cars it can accommodate. And this is a small part of what we managed to see, but even from this we can conclude that Alisher Usmanov lives like a king, which is not surprising with such income.
Alisher Usmanov is the richest man in Russia with a net worth of $13 billion. A businessman in the days of the USSR was serving a term on charges of extorting a bribe and embezzling social property. He was released on parole, after which he engaged in entrepreneurial activities, received a higher education.
Alexei Navalny filmed an exposing video in which he talks about the oligarch's real estate and how he got these objects.
Exposing Alisher Usmanov
Alisher Usmanov is a resident of the UK and Switzerland, so the businessman does not make all tax deductions in Russia. Usmanov donated a huge estate located in the Rublyovka area to the Social State Project fund, headed by Medvedev's people. The cost of this estate is 5 billion rubles.
Navalny believes that this is some kind of bribe, but, according to Usmanov, he had a plot of 4 hectares located on the territory of the village of Znamenskoye. The house was built for the businessman's sister, but she refused it, as it turned out to be huge. In fact, in this way, Usmanov was able to expand his possessions by adding the old site to the new one.
Interesting!
After the information about the deal and the purchase of the site appeared, an interview appeared on the pages of the media with the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprombank, Ilya Eliseev, in which he stated that the construction of a summer cottage was previously planned on the site where the businessman’s house now stands.
But due to the fact that the real estate market collapsed, the project was not implemented.
House of Usmanov
To expose the businessman, Alexei Navalny used a quadrocopter, which was used to film the Usmanov estate. The old house of a businessman is located on the territory of a forest plot. He lived in this estate for several years. The house is huge, there is access to the river.
The area of the old site of Alisher Usmanov was 9 hectares. Attached or new plot of 12 hectares. It has a huge number of buildings. In addition, the Vyazemka River is also fenced off, which is done illegally.
The new main house of 4,000 sq. meters, the porch of which is covered with a red carpet. To the left of the main house, a guest house is built, but it is several times smaller than the main one, the area is 1645 sq. meters.
There is also an FSO station on the territory of the site, which cannot be seen from the air, but with the help of a quadrocopter it was possible to do this. Huge 1100 sq. meters. There is also an impressive gate through which you can enter the territory of the site from the side of Rublyovka.
There is also an Orthodox chapel in the main house, allegedly built by Alisher Usmanov for his sister. Although Alisher is a Muslim. What is the purpose of the Orthodox chapel on the estate?
Navalny's investigation showed that this house was built for Dmitry Medvedev, who later became his residence, which is confirmed by sources on social networks, in particular Vkontakte.
To the question of a Forbes correspondent about how Alisher Usmanov manages to buy up even those plots that are not for sale, the businessman replied: “A person needs to be given in such a way that it is convenient for him to take.”
Alisher Usmanov has been considered the richest man in Russia for many years. According to various sources, his fortune is estimated at 18-20 billion US dollars. He owns shares in many Russian high-tech companies, including Euroset and Megafon. I wonder what conditions a well-known entrepreneur lives in?
Hall of the huge mansion of Alisher Usmanov
Recently, the network blew up a video of Alisher Usmanov's chic mansion in Tashkent.
The huge house was built in the European style and decorated with ancient national ornaments, which were used mainly in the buildings of ancient Bukhara.
Spacious living room with a fireplace in the house of Alisher Usmanov
The mansion has 6 bedrooms and 10 reception rooms. The whole house is furnished with expensive furniture, paintings by cult artists hang on the walls.
One of the luxurious bedrooms in the house of Alisher Usmanov
Every detail in the house - from an expensive sofa to a small decorative box - just screams of luxury. So, for example, on the ceiling of one of the rooms, which is made in the national style - woodcarving - you can see the initials of the Russian billionaire.
Another living room in the house of Alisher Usmanov
The house also has a huge swimming pool, jacuzzi, massage room - everything you need for a luxurious life.
