Putin's night visit to the Mikhalkovs' dacha: bagels, baubles and tales. An uninvited guest visited the lands of Nikita Mikhalkov Nizhny Novgorod estate Mikhalkov

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Eh, not in a fairy tale to say, not to describe with a pen! Among the picturesque bends of the lower Oka, not far from Nizhny Novgorod, a little more than 10 km from Pavlov-on-Oka, named for its specialty - "splitting" substandard wood into pine shavings, is Shchepachikha, where a manor estate flourishes, of a noticeable scope even by the standards pre-revolutionary, tsarist Russia. It is not known when the owner N. Mikhalkov came up with such an idea to bring several dozen poisonous snakes to Shchepachikha and let them live around the perimeter of their possessions, but it was embodied this year.

By itself, the estate of Nikita Mikhalkov 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 oxbow lakes - 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 transferred to the director for long-term use of the farm was 37,000 hectares, then it was possible to expand it to 140,000 hectares. "He set up the house very well, in the old style. Chopped, you hear! Not siding-schmeiding, but real chopped, who can do that now! .." - Shchepachikhinsky and Tumbotinsky men say almost enthusiastically.

Why snakes were released along the borders of the site - the locals have no doubt: "so that no one walks around." Few are offended by the "master" - mostly women, who now have to worry about children and goats, which may accidentally suffer from Mikhalkov's "combat reptiles". The peasants argue more thoroughly: if I had the same estate, I would do the same. And then really, everyone goes! Those of the villagers who are richer (mostly summer residents from Nizhny) even imitate - cottages here come across with a twist, one is built up under an English castle, the other under a chopped tower.

The director himself said many times that when building his estate, he was guided by the towers 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 chopped tower was not surrounded by a palisade, the service buildings were not crowded around the tower, 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 rebuilt separately (moreover, the largest guest house is a real hotel, according to those who visited the estate, designed for 400 - 500 guests). “Everyone” visits Mikhalkov, as the bricklayer Andrei puts it - both Putin and Medvedev, and numerous actors, and the regional authorities. “Shantsev, for example, never comes here - he flies. Because you have to go here from Pavlova by ferry, and the road is useless. So he's in a helicopter.

The main entertainments in the estate are quite traditional for a large aristocracy: equestrian sports, yachting, troikas and snowmobiles, hunting. True, hunting is more rifle hunting than more aristocratic canine or falconry (although there are such opportunities on the estate) - in the circle of the Sheremetevs or the Yusupovs of the century before last, Mikhalkov would be called “small-grass” ... But on the other hand, with newfangled, like the elite riot police, all-terrain vehicles "Tiger" - a patriotic analogue of the "Hammers", each costing 5 - 6 million rubles. Another profitable, apparently, function of the Mikhalkov estate is to work as a film set for the director's films. It was here - more precisely, next to the hunting grounds, in the village of Polyany - that they filmed most of the scenes of the Citadel, which is now being released on the screens - the end of the military saga about the division commander Kotov. A fake bridge and a church were blown up here, a large film crew was stationed here, and the villagers were paid 2-3 thousand rubles for the inconvenience. It must be assumed that the proximity of the shooting to his own estate helped the director save a lot from the $50 million budget announced for Citadel. Yes, and work in native walls, of course, more pleasant.

What the estate does not have is the agricultural component. This circumstance sharply separates the Mikhalkov estate from the traditionally Russian type of landlord economy - almost everywhere in post-Petrine Russia there were landlord fields, and pre-Petrine boyars did not disdain land ownership. Hunting and other "purely aristocratic" types of thought were limited only by the specific princes of the pre-Moscow period - they really were not interested in agriculture and did not organize large-scale "agroholdings", preferring to hunt and take tribute from the subject population.

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In the minds of the inhabitants of Shchepachikha and its environs, 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 Vorsma master Valery Safonov makes an offering to Nikita Sergeevich - a damask hunting set with inlay and embossing in the form of the “life” of the film actor Mikhalkov, where walking around Moscow and a shaggy bumblebee on fragrant hops are stamped. And so local officials - in the person of Governor Valery Shantsev - "favor" the gentleman a few dozen more hectares of land for his birthday, 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 Shchepachikhins and Tumbotins ... Protects the forest, breeds animals, builds a cozy house, pays money to local residents (and does not import strangers). Mikhalkov is perhaps the only one of the powers that be who in today's Russia, at least at the estate level, plays "in the long run." 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. There is no Dubrovsky in the vicinity of Shchepachikha and, apparently, is not expected ... "

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"If Stapleton had proved his right to own Baskerville Hall, how could he explain the fact that he, the heir, lived under a false name and even so close to the estate? .."
(A.Conan Doyle. "The Hound of the Baskervilles")

"Dinner, which lasted about three hours, ended; the owner put a napkin on the table - everyone got up and went into the living room, where they were waiting for coffee, maps and the continuation of the booze, which had begun so nicely in the dining room. At about seven o'clock in the evening, some guests wanted to go, but the owner , cheered by the punch, ordered the gates to be locked and announced that they would not let anyone out of the yard until the next morning ... "
(A.S. Pushkin "Dubrovsky")

- Calm down, Masha, I'm Dubrovsky, - will you follow me, or
Will you listen to Father Troekurov, or will you get yourself a magnate yourself?!

Director Nikita Mikhalkov built a luxurious estate in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Experts believe that the famous director invested $15 million in his new estate.

The most titled and, perhaps, the richest Russian filmmaker settled on a kind of peninsula among the Oka oxbows and bends. In 2000, knowing the director's passion for wandering through the forests with a rifle, the leadership of the Nizhny Novgorod region offered him to take over a neglected hunting farm with an area of ​​37,000 hectares. Nikita Sergeevich did not refuse such a truly royal gift. A couple of kilometers from the village of Shchepachikha, Pavlovsky District, by order of Mikhalkov, princely chambers, a house church, a Russian bathhouse, two guest five-walled huts, a guard house, a dining room for servants, two stables (the master has 10 beautiful trotters), a garage and small pier on the lake. There are sun loungers on pontoons near the pond. They say that Mikhalkov often sits here. In order not to miss an important call in this wilderness, the director installed a radio antenna.

The estate itself, which includes all the buildings, as well as a tennis court, a football field and adjacent meadows and forests, occupies only 115 hectares. But on the territory of the hunting farm, named after the son of Mikhalkov - "Tyomino", several small European states can easily accommodate. By the way, a couple of years later, Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov, together with his closest partners, took another 140,000 hectares of forests in the Vologda Oblast on a long-term lease. It is in those parts that the best bear hunting in Europe is.

Purely aesthetically, Mikhalkov and his buildings are approved by almost everyone who saw them. Yes, and the restoration of the church in Tumbotin, in which the "master" invested with all his heart - a matter, whatever one may say, is charitable. True, when asked how many people visit this church outside of Christmas and Easter, the Tumbotites hesitated a little. A little, apparently.

He loves our country! residents brag. – We are told that he became an Old Believer. He built his little church-chapel in order to communicate with God in the morning...

However, Nikita Sergeevich does not talk about his beliefs - this is personal. But we really saw a chapel made of logs in his possessions. At the same time, Mikhalkov's Orthodoxy is combined with an absurd character. As the residents of Tumbotino say, on Easter, one of the servants broke an egg on the fence, the director called him, ordered him to bend down and kicked him ... It looks like Mikhalkov. The master did this not only in his estate, but also in Moscow.

The fine wood kitchen is connected to the dining area, which has a long oval table and antique cupboards.

From the front door you get into the study and the winter garden. There is also a staircase from which you can go to the balcony, decorated with animal skins.

The mansion is located on a vast territory of several hectares. Guest buildings are located not far from the main mansion, and Andrei Konchalovsky's cottage is built on the neighboring plot.

In addition to it and the house itself, where the Mikhalkov family lives, the estate has a huge stable for 10 trotters of Nikita Mikhalkov, separate houses for servants and guards, a dining room for staff, a kitchen, a parking lot for ten cars and a two-story guest house, from which there are stairs you can go straight down to the pond. The estate is decorated with an artificial pond with a lawn around it. On the territory of the estate there is an "alpine hill", a tennis court, a gym and a Russian bath.

Almost all village youth work on the estate of Nikita Mikhalkov. Local residents are happy - after all, there is almost no work in the village.

In some cases, to verify the validity of the accompanying documentation, the compliance of the documentation with building codes and regulations, as well as compliance with regulatory legal acts, a construction expertise of buildings and structures is required. The editors do not have information whether such an examination was carried out in the case described by us.

Not far from the family estate of his mother's ancestors, in the Pavlovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Nikita Sergeevich MIKHALKOV built a manor in the style of Russian appanage princes. On the one hand, the director's estate is covered by the full-flowing Oka, on the other hand, by a bizarre crescent - deep Lake Iskra. The only road there is lined with pine beams and winds through the swamp for a kilometer and a half. Any uninvited guest will be noticed by guards armed with carbines from afar. A young husky named Volcano, also on duty “at the gate”, will greet all visitors with a loud bark. Joyful or threatening...

Back in the very beginning of the 90s, when for the rich and famous the word "restitution" was not just an empty phrase, Mikhalkov regained several picturesque hectares, where before the revolution there was the estate of his mother's ancestors - the nobles Konchalovsky. These lands are located three kilometers from the ancient Russian town of Gorbatov and border on the ancient estate of the Bagration princes. After the director filmed his famous “The Barber of Siberia” there, a new name was firmly established for these places - Mikhalkovskaya Gorka. In his native lands, Nikita Sergeevich also worked on the first picture of the epic "Burnt by the Sun", and now he is filming the continuation of this film there.

In 2000, knowing the director's passion for wandering through the forests with a rifle, the leadership of the Nizhny Novgorod region offered him to take over a neglected hunting farm with an area of ​​37,000 hectares. Nikita Sergeevich did not refuse such a truly royal gift. A couple of kilometers from the village of Shchepachikha, Pavlovsky District, by order of Mikhalkov, princely chambers, a house church, a bathhouse, two guest five-walled huts, a house for guards, a canteen for servants, two stables, a garage and a small pier on the lake were built from selected logs. The estate itself, which includes all the buildings, as well as a tennis court, a football field and adjacent meadows and forests, occupies only 115 hectares. But on the territory of the hunting farm, named after the son of Mikhalkov - "Tyomino", several European states can easily accommodate. Of course, when Nikita Sergeevich hears about the valuation of his estate at $15 million, he is indignant. Say, this is "bullshit". I completely agree with the "Oscar-winning" director. His estate cannot be assessed in dry numbers, just as it is impossible to assess the breadth of the Russian soul.

crippled Nikolaev

The beast in the forests, which Mikhalkov took under his care, breathed freely, to put it in human language. The lawlessness that reigned there before Nikita Sergeevich utterly depleted the number of birds and quadrupeds.

Everything was smashed here! Mikhalkov exclaims. - Barbarically knocked out! The season is not the season - everyone and sundry hunted for everything ... We closed hunting for three years, brought here wild boars, elks, capercaillie. Now every spring 120 capercaillie sing. During this time, my rangers took away fifty guns from poachers. They were dissatisfied! And not ordinary men, but, so to speak, the powers that be at the local level. They were mischievous, but we managed to explain to them ... One peasant from the village next to Shchepachikha told how he was captured by the "lordly guardsmen" while skinning a calf he had killed: - They took me into the ring! Neither back nor sideways ... And about two meters away from me, a double-barreled shotgun is lying in the grass. At least one cartridge remained, all the same, the thought flashed: to scare, or what? But he changed his mind in time ... fortunately. Otherwise, I wouldn't be talking to you right now.

The guys told me everything in a very accessible way: how much for what kind of living creatures was paid to bring it here ... By God, for 35 thousand rubles that they paid for this elk, I would have killed! And they read me a notation, took away the gun and didn’t even flog me in the stable! Fair gentleman, but too kind!

By the way, a dozen wild boars were brought to Mikhalkov from France! The director bought five rangers each an ATV and a snowmobile, so that the official soles would not wear out. Well done get 10 thousand rubles a month, in addition, the master's table and uniforms. All huntsmen, as a match, are heroes, with a blow of a fist they can knock down a billhook. Because of their unmeasured strength, an incident once occurred. Last summer, his friend, Yuri Nikolaev, also an avid hunter, came to Mikhalkov. They began to get acquainted. Here the huntsman Alexander heartily shook hands with the TV presenter. Yuri with a wild cry tore his hand out of Sasha's claw: - You broke my arm! On purpose? Admit it, you never liked Morning Post? - Take it easy! - chuckling softly, Mikhalkov stopped Nikolaev's lamentations. - It's by accident! And by the way, when the "Morning Mail" was going on, Shurik had not yet been born! It’s good that the housekeeper Mikhalkov (as the woman is affectionately called by everyone, including the owner. - V.P.) soon called to the table to “dine”. For dinner, as always, simple Russian dishes were served: jelly, game fried on a spit, mushrooms, cucumbers, pies and, of course, an ice branded “konchalovka” - homemade vodka prepared according to a generic recipe.

And the ruble, and a kind word

The closest associates employed in "Burnt by the Sun-2" - Oleg Menshikov, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Andrei Merzlikin, Arthur Smolyaninov love to "party" at the master's estate. Although to go from the set from Mikhalkovskaya Gorka to Shchepachikha versts 30 on a bumpy road. The main rescuer of Russia, Sergei Shoigu, and the former Minister of Finance Mikhail Zadornov, and the governors of many regions, and movie stars were sitting at the hospitable hospitality. A constant participant of gatherings is a six-year-old pointer Syabr, the champion of Russia in catching marsh game. He does not take his devoted eyes off the owner, as well as all the other guests. While the smiling cooks are serving a new dish, Nikita Sergeevich always finds an opportunity to joke and tell an anecdote. The girls listen to the speeches of the master and shyly sprinkle into aprons. And the maids, and the cooks, and the grooms, and other servants live, in their words, "with Sergeevich as in Christ's bosom."

Salary - from 5 to 12 thousand rubles, a table from the belly, service clothes, a roof over your head.

Just don’t steal and work conscientiously, and the owner will welcome you with a ruble and a kind word! - said the maid Valya. - Again, it is pleasant to work for him - a famous person. Friends with Putin himself! Not like any official. Producer! And such a man that you can fall in love immediately and for life! He gave his word - he keeps it ... Not like the current bosses. He promised to lay a road to the village of Shchepachikha - gravel has already been brought in. I bought drinking installations for schools in the city of Pavlovo. And there is nothing to say about the forests! Before, it used to be scary to go for mushrooms and berries, just look, some mischievous person will attack. Now walk like in a park. It's safe... One has only to make a slight noise, and soon the huntsman will emerge from under the ground. A wonderful owner, a true patriot, he cares about his native land with all his thought!

Zhukovka, Barvikha, Usovo... In this series, Nikolina Gora is a special article. The main oasis of the celestials near Moscow, in ancient times called RANIS, which translates very simply - "workers of science and art."

They are still there today - Academicians Sergei Kapitsa and Sergei Vorobyov, artists Vasily Livanov and Nikolai Slichenko, musicians Yuri Bashmet and Alexander Lipnitsky ... However, in recent years, new masters of life have appeared on Nikolina Gora. “Well, I just can’t save them from them, they buy up the forest and build their palaces with turrets,” complains one of the natives of the Mountain, pianist Nikolai Petrov. “I just don’t go outside my site, I spend all the time here - this is both my house and my dacha.” But once upon a time ...

Nikologorsk people gathered for musical evenings that took place at the dacha of Svyatoslav Richter (here the great musician died in the summer of 1997), to watch the once outlandish video that the same Nikolai Petrov brought from foreign voyages. One of the main cultural places of Nikolina Gora was the house-teremok of Natalia Konchalovsky, the granddaughter of Surikov and the wife of Sergei Mikhalkov (Andrey Konchalovsky now lives in this house). Today, a mansion with columns claims the central place - the house of Nikita Mikhalkov, built only a few years ago. But Vladimir Putin, and Jack Nicholson, and - Peta Wilson have already managed to visit here. Here, after the Easter service, there is also a noisy conversation.

By the way, the church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was restored not so long ago - in 1990, through the efforts of the local community (mainly the same Nikita Sergeevich) and the rector - Archpriest Alexy Gostev. In the once traveling church of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, in which he stopped for prayers, going on a pilgrimage to the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, not only Nikologorsk people come, but also believers from Moscow come. Last year, on Easter, they prayed in the temple by the light of the Great Saturday Fire, brought by Mikhalkov from Jerusalem.

The gastronomic center of Nikolina Gora is a restaurant without a name (but with surprisingly low prices) on a football and volleyball court. Once upon a time, noisy matches of local teams were held here, and poems were read from the stage. Now this rarely happens - the lifestyle has changed, and they gather mainly at a party, at each other's. So, the invariable Christmas celebration takes place at Stepan Mikhalkov's dacha in neighboring Maslova (or in Maslovka, as the natives lovingly call the village in the neighborhood). They also like to receive guests at one of the most old-fashioned dachas of Nikolina Gora - near Kachalov, where today the granddaughter of the great Moscow Art Theater master, actress Maria Lyubimova, lives with her family. This is one of the few houses of the old resort near Moscow, where you can fully experience the spirit of the former Nikolina Gora. Portraits, gizmos - lovely witnesses of antiquity. But another descendant of the great Moscow Art Theater - Vasily Livanov - added a new house to the old dacha - it became a little crowded ...

There are also abandoned houses on Nikolina. So, Sergei Prokofiev's dacha has been empty for a long time - the composer's son went into exile. And the huge mansion, which rumor ascribes to Tatyana Dyachenko, has never settled down and looks somehow menacing. Empty and lonely standing brick palace, built supposedly for the tragic end of his life Minister Pugo. Do you remember this one?.. Rumor has it that they will soon demolish (and build a new one) the same bridge from which Boris Yeltsin allegedly flopped under the morning into the Moscow River. An old one, to know, became a bridge, for nothing, as a memorial one.

The inhabitants of Nikologorsk created their village, guided by the old motto "My home is my fortress", carefully guarded the protected area, preferring to return from Moscow not to Moscow apartments, but to dachas near Moscow. And therefore now, when new vandals encroach on the "small homeland", they are less and less inclined to talk about their land, and on their faces one can more often notice the imprint of sadness.

"No capesos touched us, they lived in their" envious "and" slides ", but these !!!" - the pianist Petrov is again indignant, who built the house, like almost all Nikologorsk residents, with his own hands (including the house for guests, which are not uncommon for Nikolai Arnoldovich and his neighbors to this day). Only this is more and more - not "new Russians", but those who are visiting Nikolina Gora and feel at home. For now…

Without exaggeration Andrei Konchalovsky can be called a man of the world, so much time he lives and works in different countries: America, France, Italy, England, China.

But among hundreds of others, one place is especially dear to the director - the house on Nikolina Gora, half an hour from Moscow, where the Mikhalkov family has lived since 1951.

“It is important for me that I live on Nikolina Gora, on this land,” says Andrey Konchalovsky. “After all, our family settled here more than 50 years ago, my brother and I had our own house, and next to our parents we had our own. I spent my youth 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, together with his wife Yulia, returned to the "family nest". More precisely, in 2000, Konchalovsky and Vysotskaya decided to move from Los Angeles to a dacha outside 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 were finally moving here to live. Andrei Sergeevich felt great in his home, but Yulia took a long time to get used to the new place. ”Before this visit, I saw the house on Nikolina Gora: once we drove past with Andrei Sergeevich, and he pointed out through the open gate: “Look out, there is our dacha. They just didn’t go in, because everything was dug up there, the construction of the dacha was going on Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov.

“Now the brothers’ dachas are opposite each other: Nikita Sergeevich rebuilt the house where he once lived with his brother, and Andrei Sergeevich occupied his mother’s house. And when we moved in, everything was comfortable,” Yulia continues the story, “but the house is still seemed to me not only uninhabited, but alien. At first I began to wash, scrub, clean everything, because when you come to a new place, you want it to “smell of you”. And then the idea was born to rebuild it, I wanted to scale.

For example, the kitchen turned out to be too small, and when guests came, everything turned into a mess. ”Konchalovsky had long wanted to make a spacious hall and a library in the house. When the director returned to Russia in the early 90s, he built a third over 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 into the overall picture. But now the director proudly says that not a single board has changed in the old part, he succeeded connect elements of the old and the new. Although some redevelopment parent part happened: where it used to be kitchen, — children's bathroom; instead of a veranda - now winter Garden, and also in this part of the house - spouses' bedrooms, cabinet Konchalovsky and sports room.

And the new part of the house is basically a living room, above which, on the balcony, there is a library, and in the basement there is a spacious kitchen and dining room.

There were practically no disputes with Yulia about how their common house should look like.

Except a couple of times. “In general, I don’t understand anything in architecture, so my husband came up with the whole concept of the house,” the actress admits. “But sometimes I did get involved. For example, those arches in the living room, which I now really like, caused me rejection 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 the Provencal style. After looking through dozens of books, she chose her favorite cabinets, chairs, tables, sketched out sketches, according to which Russian craftsmen made furniture. The idea for the design of the dining room, located next to the kitchen, was given by ... two carved chairs from three hundred years ago.

Focusing on them, we made all the furniture in the dining room - and similar chairs, and a large dining table. And only by 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 only lie in the bathroom by candlelight. But Andrey Sergeevich convinced me, saying that it was unreasonable. Now there is a warm, dark stone.

Andrey Konchalovsky was fully responsible for filling the house - what will be the external and internal finishes. “My husband loves old furniture, but it’s just important for me that it is cozy, nice,” explains Vysotskaya. And in confirmation of 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 do not 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. All together, all mixed up, as in life. Of course, the items are taken away, but it's still a free flight.

Practically nothing was specifically purchased for the house on Nikolina Gora. Much has been brought here from the former places where the Konchalovsky couple lived. So, an armchair of the beginning of the last century was bought a long time ago at a Los Angeles flea market, a brand new sofa moved from the same city.