Dacha "Chaika", and earlier the estate "White Seagulls" was built in the style of Finnish Art Nouveau in 1913 by Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulei as a creative workshop. Many famous artists worked and rested here: N.P. Bogdanov-Belsky, K.A. Korovin, A.S. Stepanov, A.V. Moravov, S.Yu. Zhukovsky, V.N. Meshkov, A.E. Arkhipov, I.E. Grabar, N.M. Romadin, V.N. Baksheev, N.A. Kasatkin, A.M. Corinne; theatrical figures and actors: the chief designer of the Maly Theater, B.I. Volkov, actors of the Moscow Art Theater: B.A. Mordvinov V.Ya. Stanitsyn; B.V. Spassky, world chess champion; statesmen: Ya.E. Rudzutak, M.V. Frunze.
Until now, "The Seagull" attracts artists and amateurs visual arts and nature.
The Chaika estate went through different periods. In 1994-1995. the estate was on the verge of death, and the district administration made attempts to find a family that would live here and protect the monument of history and art. In the summer of 1995, a family of three settled in the estate. The building was renovated. The territory of "The Seagull" was fenced off, a road was poured into it. Thanks to the help of volunteers, work began on putting in order the territory of the estate.
In March 1996, an exhibition of paintings by artist E. Timakova from Moscow was opened in one of the rooms of the dilapidated building. In the fall of 1996, classes of creative children's workshops were transferred to the premises prepared in the estate, the revival of traditions of which began in the winter of the same year in Sigovskaya high school... The employees of the center here taught children the basics of crafts and fine arts.
In 1996, the exhibition hall was renovated, where a new exhibition of paintings was held in the summer. Since that time, many art exhibitions have taken place in The Seagull, which were distinguished by the professionalism of the authors and the high artistic level. Various genres of fine art were presented here: art glass, park sculpture, small plastic, avant-garde painting, animal sculpture, photography. It also hosted local history exhibitions based on materials from the private archives of the descendants of the Udomlya noble families.
In the estate "Chaika" plein-airs are organized for children of the art department of the Udomlya School of Arts and amateur artists. An event like this helps to unite creative people this region also creates conditions for their close communication.
Historical and Art Center "Chaika" has creative ties with the Tver Art School named. Venetsianov, the Academic dacha of Vyshny Volochok, the Tver branch of the Union of Artists, the Tver Art Gallery. In the estate "Seagull" artists regularly live and work: Vladimir Litvinov, Anatoly Burov, Boris Fedorov, Oleg Khomutov, Nikolai Dochkin, whose works replenish the funds of the art collections of the center.
Over the period of the art center's existence, ties have been established and strengthened with Belarus, where V.K. Byalynitsky-Biruli. In 2001, an international art plein air was held on the basis of the Blue Lakes rest house and the Chaika Dacha, which was dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Vitold Byalynitsky-Biruli.
But despite the active activity of the center, the manor building requires major restoration. In 2002, only the most urgent work was carried out. In addition, a permanent exhibition is needed to tell the story of The Seagull, and this also requires the participation of professionals and certain funds. It is required to raise the level of the established activities, to create conditions for exhibiting and storing works.
This is the former creative dacha of the artist of the first half of the 20th century, Vitold Kaetanovich Byalynitsky-Birul (1872-1957), built by him in 1913 in the style of Finnish Art Nouveau. Here, in a secluded park on the shores of the picturesque Lake Udomlya, he lived for more than 40 years (and died here), while painting more than 200 paintings that are now stored in many art galleries in Russia and abroad. Two museums in Belarus now bear his name.
1) Connoisseurs of landscapes and silence. If you ask me about the most beautiful and my favorite place in the Udomelsky region, I will answer that this is the vicinity of "Chaika" ... Such open spaces open from the high shore of the Udomelsky lake! Such silence and isolation from the world, when you walk among cornflowers along a barely beaten country road from "Chaika" to the half-dead village of Vanyunkino ... At the same time, the guest house "Chaika" has all the modern conveniences. Therefore, I recommend "The Seagull" to those who value closeness to nature and distance from other people.
2) Fishermen. It is close to the lake (about 150 m through the manor park), the lake is interesting for fishing (large, deep, with islets, shoals and pits, does not have winter deaths, since most of it is not covered with ice in winter due to the warm waste waters of the nuclear power plant.
3) For family vacations - for lovers of creativity. Here you can try yourself in mastering the pottery wheel, and wood carving, and in blacksmithing, and in making compositions from molten colored glass ...
1) Those who like to drink and make some noise in nature. The owner is strict enough here and will not allow "buzz", violating the established rules. Therefore, in order to avoid incidents, it is better not to spoil your rest.
2) For those who need organized meals and leisure. This is not the case here (although the nearest cafe is only 15 minutes away by car). Rest here requires some independence from guests in these matters.
Declarations of officials must be checked by the Attorney General. We decided to check the declaration of the attorney general. Here's what happened.The declaration of income of the Prosecutor General brought me to Rublevka - to the dacha village of Uspenskoe. On one side of the road there are huge mansions, on the other - small huts with sagging roofs. Locals (those from the huts) are joking: on the left live those who vote, and on the contrary - those for whom they vote ...
The village of Uspenskoye itself is a reservation on the reservation: a pine forest with dachas-palaces is fenced with a three-meter fence, and therefore you can find out who lives there only by getting inside. But the guards only let the residents and the guests invited by them. Video and audio recording equipment is seriously malfunctioning - either a magnetic storm, or purposefully jammed. The numbering of houses is arbitrary, sometimes dachas without identification marks come across at all - either they are specially confused, or it is not important here: everyone knows each other. The postman is unlikely to get confused when he sees the address on the envelope: Moscow Region, Odintsovsky District, d / p Uspenskoe, to the Prosecutor General - so write if your messages do not reach the official at his place of service.
Chaika's dacha, on the one hand, is worse than a fence - when it is completed, it will be difficult for neighbors to calmly admire the surroundings, this house is so huge, significantly larger than those located nearby. On the other hand, it is much better, because it is beautiful and awe-inspiring, like a medieval serf-like view of giant cathedrals.
The need for a Novaya correspondent to travel to this heavenly place was caused by the following. On May 2, on the official website of the Prosecutor General's Office there were published information about property status and the income of the senior management of the main supervisory agency of the country for 2011. It turned out that the Attorney General Yuri Chaika earned 5.6 million rubles; he also declared an apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b203.6 sq. meters, two domestic cars (GAZ-13 and GAZ-69) and two parking spaces (15 square meters each). The wife of the head of the Prosecutor General's Office Elena Chaika reported an income of 8.5 million rubles, declared half of the rights to an apartment (203.6 square meters), non-residential premises (175 square meters) and a land plot of 4.3 thousand square meters. meters. The last point is just the place you are looking for in the Uspenskoe d / p.
In fact, we became aware of the existence of this object before the publication of the declarations - the editorial office of Novaya received a letter from a reader who was responsible for legal support of the transaction on gasification of the summer residence of the family of Prosecutor General Chaika.
I quote: “In the 2000s, I worked in the Mosoblgaz trust, providing documentary support for transactions for the installation of gas equipment. It so happened that in 2008 I was involved in the workflow associated with the summer residence of the family of the Prosecutor General Chaika. It was alarming that some documents were not able to be seen, since they were kept only by the authorities, contrary to the established rules. Apparently there was something to hide. Considering that the power in the country should be under the control of society, I made copies of the available papers. Gasification is carried out only if there is a house close to completion. And the construction of Chaika's dacha has not been completed for several years already. In any case, neither the Attorney General nor his wife ever indicated the fact of ownership of this house in their declarations on income and property. Please find out why this wonderful mansion has not yet been declared. "
After waiting for the Prosecutor General's Office to publish data on the income of its superiors and not finding a new building at the Chaika's family, I went to the known address.
From Boyar Morozova to the Politburo
The dacha village Uspenskoe has a rich history: once this territory (total area exceeds 20 hectares) was inhabited by members of the USSR Council of Ministers, and the adjoining lands were the top of the CPSU Central Committee.“The farm on a parity basis belonged to the Administrative Department of the Council of Ministers and the Administrative Directorate of the Central Committee of the CPSU - only the elite received official dachas,” says an old resident of these places who served the village of Uspenskoe in the mid-1980s. - Here, for example, lived Pyotr Yefimovich Shelest - a former member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. A few state dwellings (each with an area of \u200b\u200bno more than 170 square meters. shabby curtains; the decoration is served only by captured German porcelain brought to Soviet Union in post-war period... “It was immediately felt that everything here was official - everyone had the same thing, no one stood out. Nowadays ministers don't live like that. "
Today, these Stalinist houses are in great demand, say in the Sosny health complex of the Presidential Property Management Department, which houses the Uspenskoye summer cottage settlement, as well as a number of other elite ghettos in the Odintsovo district. Hence the advertisement on the official website of the complex: “The first mention of the village of Uspenskoe dates back to 1328. Its owners were B.I. Morozov is the uncle of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, as well as his brother Gleb Ivanovich, who later married F.P. Sokovnikova, the one who would later become the famous noblewoman Morozova. All summer cottages are located in a uniquely beautiful place among a pine forest on the shore of a pristine lake. The territory has everything you need: a shop, a sauna, a car wash, preschool institutions, private schools".
A public offer has been published on the Sosny OK website: the cost of renting an old Brezhnev dacha on a turnkey basis for a month is 120 thousand rubles or more, however, in a telephone conversation, the operator warns that renting a historic living space is quite difficult - demand exceeds supply by several orders of magnitude. The commandant of Uspensky, in turn, explains: “There are simply very few state dachas left - maybe a third of the total. The remaining two thirds of the plots are privately owned. " By the way, according to our sources, the remaining third of state houses in the near future may be transferred to some private structure for further implementation.
Where did that come from and for how much
At what prices state property on the territory of the village of Uspenskoye was sold in the 90s, during the period of privatization, it is not known for certain. But some conclusions can be drawn from the incident that happened to the Deputy Prosecutor of the Moscow Region Pyotr Vilkov, who became public after the initiation of a criminal case on the fact of the illegal, according to the investigation, the allocation of 75 hectares of relic pine forest by the Office of the President in 1997 for the needs of a certain commercial company. Thanks to the scandal, some of the documents were also freely available, including an agreement on the acquisition of dacha No. 9 by prosecutor Vilkov and adjacent lands.Here are excerpts from Vilkov's statement addressed to the then head of the UDP Pavel Borodin: “I am asking for your permission to sell summer cottage No. 9 in the Uspenskoe dacha farm of the Sosny OK” built in 1936, with an area of \u200b\u200b147.7 sq. m, as well as used furniture and property ".
Borodin imposed a positive resolution on that petition, after which the administration sold the dacha to Vilkov for 317 thousand rubles, and a little later transferred the land plot with an area of \u200b\u200b4.2 thousand square meters. meters for individual suburban construction for 37 thousand rubles. A businessman familiar with that situation, who rented a house for his own needs in the Uspensky settlement, testifies that similar transactions were concluded then quite often. “Many managed to buy a dacha for an“ acceptable ”amount and receive a land plot, and then sell it profitably. Now a hundred square meters of bare land costs 40 thousand dollars in Uspensky, and each has several thousand squares there. In general, many officials lived here. I remember that the former director of the FSO Yuri Krapivin was one of the first in the period of "sales" to buy the dacha, although he later sold it. Gryzlov had a dacha here ... Yuri Chaika was one of the first who received land. He didn’t sell his house - on the contrary, he launched a grandiose construction ”.
By the way, the land plot by the Chaika family was, according to government agencies, acquired in 1998, then Yuri Yakovlevich worked as the first deputy prosecutor general.
Property history
The scale of the construction of Chaika's dacha on an area of \u200b\u200b4.3 thousand square meters. meters are impressive: behind a low stone fence, hung with surveillance cameras, work is in full swing: a dozen people are tapping with hammers, a drill does not stop ... Meanwhile, a car with a special signal is parked at the gate - a figure emerges from the car and quickly disappears on the site. Neighbors of the Chaika family themselves do not always guess who came this time: "Yuri Yakovlevich has two sons - apparently, one of them."The site itself is registered in the name of Yuri Chaika's wife, Elena. The General Prosecutor's Office explained to us: “The specified land plot was purchased by Chaika E.G. in 1997 (? - Ed.). Information about him, in accordance with the procedure established by law, is published among other information about the income and property of the Prosecutor General Russian Federation Seagulls Yu. Ya. and his family members on the official website of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. A residential building is under construction on this site, which is currently not completed. For this reason, the specified real estate object has not been registered in ownership and is not subject to declaration. "
Meanwhile, official documents indicate otherwise: the original buyer of the house was Yuri Chaika, who purchased it from the Sosny health complex on February 19, 1998. But Elena Chaika received a land plot and a country house under a donation agreement dated October 5, 1999, signed between Chaika Yu.Ya and Chaika E.G. Why did the Prosecutor General's Office need to hide the fact of Yuri Chaika's ownership of this house - perhaps, the reason was some circumstances of its acquisition, which we do not yet know about?
According to the floor plan of construction, the Chaika family's dacha is a three-story mansion with an attic with a living area of \u200b\u200bat least 2 thousand square meters. meters. On the basement floor there will be: a billiard room, a wine cellar, a tasting room, a gym, a hall, three storerooms, as well as several technical rooms; on the ground floor there is a relaxation room, sauna, swimming pool, living room, dining room, lift. There will be a veranda next to the porch and a winter garden a little further away.
The cost of the dacha was not disclosed. But, according to the Novaya Gazeta expert, who analyzed the future layout of the house, the construction cost could be tens of millions of dollars: “In general, the price for the construction of such houses varies from several million to several tens of millions of dollars - it all depends on building materials and interior decoration. A three-storey cottage with an attic over 2 thousand sq. meters will cost at least 10 million. "
Help "New"
The family of Prosecutor General Chaika is engaged in business. The wife of the Prosecutor General, a former educator and teacher, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, is listed as the sole founder of Stalaktit M LLC. The eldest son - Artem Chaika - Partner of the Moscow Bar Association "Chaadaev, Kheifets & Partners" and the only founder of Legal Bureau Legal Consulting LLC, has shares in LLC Group of Companies Russkiy Aktiv and LLC Equestrian Club Elbrus.
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Location: Odintsovo district of the Moscow region.
Land area: 43 ares.
Living space: more than 2 thousand sq. meters. Three floors plus an attic.
Additional pleasures: wine cellar, tasting room, billiard room, sauna, swimming pool, gym, winter garden.
The land plot is included in the income tax return - it belongs to the wife of the Attorney General in accordance with the donation agreement signed by the Attorney General.
The dacha is not included in the income tax return because it is considered unfinished.
Description of the surrounding area
The Udomlya District is located in the northern part of the Tver Region on the East European Plain - the northeastern spurs of the Valdai Upland, called the Lesnaya (or Udomelsko-Lesnaya) ridge. Occupied area - 2476.2 sq. km. Since 2006, the district has 250 settlements of thirteen settlements. Highways and the Oktyabrskaya railway pass through the district. The administrative center is the city of Udomlya.
The Udomel region is a lake region: the largest of 86 lakes are Navolok, Udomlya, Kezadra, Pesvo. Big rivers - Msta, Volchina, Sezha. In many places, areas of pristine forests with a rich fauna have been preserved. Significant resources groundwater... Mineral water reserves are suitable for medicinal purposes. The climate is moderately continental.
The region is industrial and agricultural. Kalinin NPP is the largest electricity producer in the northwest of Russia. Udomlya is a member of the Association of Russian Cities at Nuclear Power Plants, established in March 1998. With the construction of a nuclear power plant in the early 1970s. the rapid development of the Udomel region began. Industrial enterprises - "Sevzapenergomontazh", "Zhilstroy", a furniture factory, a garment factory, "Khlebokombinat", "Petmol-V". The main agricultural areas are milk, meat, grain and flax production.
The network of the social and cultural sphere is extensive. In 1977, a local history museum was created in the regional center, one of the relics of which is the station bell of Vindavo-Rybinskaya railroad... In 1901, a library was founded (at present - the Udomel central regional library). There is a music school in the city. In Udomlya there are the Zvezdny cinema and concert center and the House of Crafts. Inhabitants of many settlements of the region have houses of culture. The sports base of the city is represented by a sports and recreation complex, swimming pools, a children's and youth sports school.
On May 8, 1995 in the center of Udomlya the Memorial of Memory was solemnly opened.
Power transmission lines are a characteristic feature of the Udomel region
Udomlya - historical name areas near the lakes Udomlya and Pesvo. Archaeological research on the territory of the region testifies to the habitability of the lands already at the time of the Fatyanovo culture (III-II millennium BC).
The first written mention of the region - in the Novgorod chronicles of 1478 - is associated with the census of the Novgorod lands annexed to Moscow.
The Tale of Bygone Years mentions the Msta River, which now forms the western border of the Udomel region. "In the summer of 948, Princess Olga walked along the Msta and set tributes and churchyards." In 1418 the Udomlya lands were annexed to Moscow. The Udomlya volost was part of the Tver half of the Bezhetskaya pyatina in Veliky Novgorod. Since the XVIII century. The Udomlya volost was an important part of the waterway, entering the Vyshnevolotsk water system. With the construction of the Vindavo-Rybinsk railway, half a kilometer from the village of Panoshino, the Trinity half-station arose (1869). This event is considered the date of the foundation of Udomlya, although the renaming into "Udomlya" took place only in 1904. Until 1929 the Udomlya lands belonged to the Vyshnevolotsk district. Within the modern borders, the Udomlya District has been part of the Tver Region since 1929. In 1981, the Udomlya settlement acquired the status of a city.
The dacha is an intricate two-story wooden house on the high bank of Lake Udomlya, surrounded by an old park.
In general, this is the former creative dacha of the artist of the first half of the 20th century, Vitold Kaetanovich Byalynitsky-Birul (1872-1957), built by him in 1913 in the style of Finnish Art Nouveau. Here, in a secluded park on the shores of the picturesque Lake Udomlya, he lived for more than 40 years (and died here), while painting more than 200 paintings that are now stored in many art galleries in Russia and abroad. Two museums in Belarus now bear his name.
You can not only learn about the life and work of this "singer of silence", but also enjoy the beautiful nature. In fine weather, for a small surcharge, you can also order a bonfire with tea making here.
Address: 171856, Tver region, Udomelsky district, p / o Kaskovo, "Dacha" Chaika ".
Directions: Minibus taxi "Udomlya - Kaskovo" (daily). Regular bus "Udomlya - Kurovo - Ustye" (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
Working hours: * Daily from 11.00 to 18.00, except Monday. Tuesday - sightseeing day (by appointment)
Entrance fee: * For citizens of the Russian Federation: adults - 50 rubles, students - 20 rubles, schoolchildren, pensioners - 10 rubles. Foreign tourists: full - 80 rubles; foreign students - 60 rubles. Preferential categories (inquiries by phone) - free
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