Sobchak bought a house on Rublyovka for $1 million Sobchak bought a house on Rublyovka for $1 million The TV presenter settled in the cottage village "Gorki-8" Raisa MURASHKINA - 08/12/2010 Ksenia Sobchak is in great demand these days. The TV personality is involved in various television projects, and on different “buttons”. And, as an independent girl, when purchasing real estate, Sobchak does not rely on his wealthy gentlemen, but only on himself. So, quite recently, Ksyusha became the owner of a luxurious house on Rublyovka. Friends of the TV personality told KP about this. - Ksyusha bought a country house in the Gorki-8 cottage village. The cost of houses with a plot there sometimes reaches up to $1 million, Sobchak’s friends, whom she had already invited to a housewarming party, shared with KP. Moreover, Ksyusha bought this house in half with her mother Lyudmila Borisovna Narusova. One half of the house is occupied by Ksyusha, and the other by Lyudmila Borisovna. By the way, this is not Sobchak’s first major purchase. Last year, Ksenia bought an apartment for 270 thousand dollars in the most prestigious area of Jurmala on Kalpaka Street. REFERENCE "KP" The village "Gorki-8" is the complete opposite of a polluted metropolis. Just 14 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, wealthy citizens managed to create their own paradise: outsiders are prohibited from entering the territory. Elite townhouses are protected from the noisy street by powerful wooden gates. There is a forest around. Even when the smog of the peat bogs enveloped Moscow, there was practically no smoke. “The place here is quiet, there are no strangers,” says the security. - Only high-ranking people live in townhouses. Therefore, security with machine guns is not a quirk, but a necessity. All houses are equipped with a panic button. “The only negative,” says the village worker, “is if guests come to the owners.” They won't go to the house. They will pass only on foot and with passes. This rule was introduced after one incident. The tenant was suddenly visited by guests whom he did not want to see. A terrible scandal arose... To avoid nervous tension, a special guest parking lot was installed near the village. According to the realtor, there are only two penthouses left for sale. Area - 320 sq. meters. The streets here are as clean as home. “Cleaning up garbage and the territory costs residents about 17 thousand rubles a month,” says a housekeeper of one of the houses. Even at the time of designing the village, the owners of the townhouses categorically refused to build bars, restaurants, and discos on its territory. Like, there is a lot of such goodness in Moscow. And here everything you need for life: a supermarket, a pharmacy, a bank, a dry cleaner, a laundry, a bakery. In the center of the village there is a church. The current Church of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
It’s a shame for young mother Ksenia Sobchak to complain about the cramped living conditions. Her newborn son will have room to run and ride his bike. Last year, for example, Sobchak bought an apartment in the prestigious Khamovniki district of the capital for 180 million rubles. The seven-story building consists of two sections, its facades are lined with marble. The design uses panoramic glazing and beautiful stained glass windows. On the ground floor there is a fitness center with a swimming pool, a children's playroom and a cafe. The underground parking is designed for 70 cars. Starting from the 2nd floor there are apartments: there are 28 of them in total. The area of the apartments is from 150 to 272 square meters. Sobchak’s neighbor in this club house is TV presenter Ivan Urgant.
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Ksenia Sobchak also has a country house in the American Dream business class cottage village at the 58th kilometer of Dmitrovskoye Highway. The area of houses with a sauna and fireplace here ranges from 131 to 361 square meters. Their cost without finishing reaches 7 million rubles. But Ksyusha was the advertising face of this village, so she obviously bought the house at a discount. The decisive factor in choosing the village for Sobchak was that there are sports facilities nearby, which will allow her to lead an active lifestyle.
A little closer to Moscow is a house in the cottage village "Gorki-8", which in 2010 Ksyusha bought in half with her mother Lyudmila Narusova. The cost of houses with a plot there reaches up to $1 million. This is where Sobchak’s newborn son will spend the first weeks of his life.
When Ksenia and her child get tired of Belokamennaya, they can always go to the Northern capital, where Sobchak has a parental apartment in a former Fersen apartment building built in 1914 in the very center of the city, on the Moika, a stone's throw from the Hermitage. The apartment is located window to window with Pushkin’s museum-apartment and in terms of the amount of antique furniture it completely competes with it. Previously, it was a classic St. Petersburg communal apartment. It was here that the first mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, lived for ten years - from 1990 to 2000. The cost of three-room apartments here exceeds 120 million rubles.
And Sobchak often spends the summer on the Riga seaside of Jurmala. A few years ago, she bought a mansion there in a prestigious housing complex near the sea for 270 thousand euros (almost 19 million rubles at today’s exchange rate). The apartment has five rooms, a fireplace, a huge dressing room, a spacious balcony overlooking the beach.
Thus, the total cost of all Sobchak apartments is approaching half a billion rubles. “I have a phobia of poverty. I don’t know how to save, I don’t know how to save, I’m always afraid that I will have terrible, bony poverty. I really love money and I love earning it,” Ksyusha, who has been collecting real estate for many years, has admitted more than once. Sobchak recently got rid of two “diamonds” - she sold apartments on Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street and in one of the towers of the Moscow City complex.
The gated communities along the Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway west of Moscow are home to the rich and famous. This is the most expensive land in Russia. There are more millionaires per square meter here than anywhere else in the country. Books are written about this place, films are made... We talked with the real inhabitants of Rublyovka to find out what it costs here.
How much are the palaces?
There are now more offers for the sale of houses on Rublyovka than usual, as demand is low due to the crisis. “I was considering several options for houses to buy,” singer and businessman Andrei Kovalev shares his experience. — The cost of commercial real estate has fallen seriously, and the price of houses on Rublevo-Uspenskoye and Novorizhskoye highways has not yet reached the bottom. Owners inflate prices. The rental market, being more flexible, reacted immediately to the crisis - prices fell. A large house is rented out, for example, for 250 thousand rubles a month, but sold strictly for 2 million dollars. That's almost 120 million. If I put this money on deposit, then I will receive almost a million rubles in profit per month: I will pay 250 thousand for rent, and the rest will remain in my pocket.
After studying the market, Kovalev decided to buy a plot of land and build a house - it would be cheaper.
In the village of Podushkino, for a house with furniture (area 530 m², plot of 23 acres) they are asking 147 million rubles. Here the neighbors will be Leonid Yarmolnik, Lada Dance, Andrey Makarevich. On Nikolina Gora, a house of 720 m² with a plot of 27 acres costs 231 million rubles. The mansion has expensive furniture, a smart home system, a spa area, an orchard with guaranteed trees, and a fountain. Nikita Mikhalkov, Arkady Novikov, Yuri Bashmet, Vasily Livanov, Gennady Khazanov, Alexander Malinin and other celebrities live next door. A plot of 18 acres in the village of Gryaz (neighboring Maxim Galkin and Alla Pugacheva, Larisa Dolina) costs 12 million rubles. For 15 acres in Barvikha (the neighbors are Timati, Evgeny Steblov, Dmitry Malikov, Igor Nikolaev, Sergey Mazaev, Arkady Ukupnik, Alexander Marshal) they are asking 22.5 million rubles. A house in a village with an area of 1,500 m² and 40 acres of land costs 980 million rubles.
Burden of housing and communal services
“The square footage of my house is 750 m², the communal cost is 45 thousand rubles a month,” says Valeria Karat, a fashionable psychic and fortune teller on Rublyovka. — Additional services: about 20 thousand rubles per month for the maintenance of the pool, for maintaining and caring for the flora on the site from May until the end of autumn I pay a specially trained person 40 thousand rubles per month, 15 thousand per month for the janitor for removing garbage and cleaning the territory "
Singer Yulia Artemova rented a house, small by Rublyovka standards, with an area of 150 m² for 100 thousand rubles a month. “I have the feeling that I live in the country: fresh air, birds singing outside the window, hares often come running from the forest to the house,” says Yulia.
I'm looking for a nanny. Expensive
The recruitment agency “Na Rublyovka” explained that on the maid market now 90% of offers are from citizens of Ukraine. “We recommend hiring them - flexible, hardworking workers,” advises Victor, an agency employee. — More often, service personnel are taken to Rublyovka with accommodation. You can hire a married couple - the woman will be responsible for cleaning the house and taking care of the wardrobe, and the man will take care of everyday issues - monitoring the operation of the house's engineering systems, minor repairs, washing the car, purchasing groceries and other tasks. The couple is paid 100 thousand rubles a month. In a couple, one is often a great employee, the other is a C student. Therefore, it is better to hire single employees; each employee will cost 60 - 70 thousand per month. A visiting chef costs 4 thousand per day of work.” Drivers and security guards receive between 80 and 90 thousand rubles per month.
Nannies for children are often hired by Russians - aged from 38 to 50 years, with higher education. VIP nannies are paid 80-90 thousand rubles a month for their services. Filipinas are being hired less frequently. Anna Snatkina and Anastasia Stotskaya trust their children.
Before the crisis, very rich houses hired butlers from London. Now people are saving.
Let's sail for Sobchak!
Residents of Rublyovka practice sports at home with personal instructors (90 minutes - from 4 thousand rubles) or at the World Class Luxury Zhukovka fitness club. Subscription for a year is 650 thousand rubles. The manager promised to give a 10-20% discount if you buy two cards at once - for yourself and your husband. For that kind of money you can swim in the same pool with Ksenia Sobchak (from her house in the Gorki-8 village she gets to the club in 25 minutes). In addition, receive the right to personal parking, a locker, personal laundry services, and the development of individual training by titled instructors.
Chew hazel grouse?
The rich and famous can be met in the restaurant La Maree, “Veranda at the Dacha”, “Veterok” (project of Artem Mikhalkov and Arkady Novikov). Here is the price tag for the “Royal Hunt”. Borscht - 750 rubles, buckwheat with porcini mushrooms - 1100 rubles, salmon steak - 1200 rubles, a pair of ruddy hazel grouse with mushroom sauce - 1650 rubles.
“There are also closed women’s clubs here, which are organized by ladies with special financial well-being. The entrance fee to such clubs starts from 20 thousand euros. Meetings and seminars of clubs are held in elite restaurants, which are closed for these events,” says Valeria Karat. “It’s impossible to get into them from the street: club members are famous personalities, and they don’t want to see strangers next to them over a cup of tea. On Rublevka, everyone knows each other: wives know their husbands’ mistresses, they know who earns how much... Those who do not want and should not intersect are members of different clubs. Special fashion shows of new collections of clothing, jewelry, and cars are held for them.”
Gold, not children
Gated luxury communities have everything you need for life, from schools to flower shops. For example, in the private British kindergarten First Light (English, Chinese, French from native speakers, in a group of 15 children) the payment is 120 thousand rubles per month. In the French garden “Puss in Boots” (visited by the son and daughter of Alla Pugacheva), children are taught painting, ballet, music, and languages. Cost - from 200 thousand rubles per month. Conducting childbirth according to the regular program in a clinic in Lapin costs 215 thousand rubles, and according to the VIP program - 930 thousand rubles (the daughter of Ivan Urgant and the daughter of Pelageya, the sons of Dmitry Dibrov and other stars were born here). An hour in an elite bathhouse costs 6.5 thousand rubles.
Sergei Mazaev first came to Rublevka in 2009 - he came to visit Fyodor Bondarchuk. And for many years now he has been renting a house in Barvikha. He performs nearby - in the Barvikha Luxury Village concert hall. Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN, Ruslan VORONOY
Where to go for bread?
“On Rublyovka there are shops where fakes of well-known brands are sold for the same amounts for which you can buy real ones at sales in other places,” says Valeria Karat.
The soloist of the duet “Nepara” Victoria Talyshinskaya with her husband and daughter lives on Nikolina Gora next door to Vera Glagoleva. Buys groceries for the family for the week: “There is a farmer’s market on the way to Nikolina Gora. For example, beef tenderloin can be bought for 800 rubles, and lamb for 500 rubles per kilogram. We go grocery shopping to three nearby stores: Globus Gourmet, Perekrestok and Azbuka Vkusa. We often relax on the veranda, light the stove, and fry meat on the grill. And all around there is beauty - pine trees."
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“The house has an area of 348 sq. m for a “communal apartment” I pay 30 thousand rubles a month, for security in the village 20 thousand rubles,” says beauty salon owner Anvar Ochilov.
