- In childhood and adolescence in my life were alonecommunal apartments, dormitories, rented apartments, I did not hope and did not dream that someday I would live in a castle. But God sent me such a husband - and now we live here for the thirteenth year.
- Construction together with finishing went five years. A design of the house took place over seven years, and now it continues. I'm a designer by profession, so everything that surrounds us is made according to my sketches.
1/2Photo: Roman KuznetsovPhoto: Roman Kuznetsov- This is not a luxury, all things fit into our lifeorganically. I remember I came to Dubai. As soon as the Parus hotel opened there, everyone was bursting into it. And I went in and cried, did not begin to live there. And we all love to stop. In the mansion there is a tea room, made in the Oriental style.
Photo: Roman Kuznetsov- German piano of 1953, which stands in onefrom the rooms is my pride. This instrument was played by Tatyana Nikolayeva, a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. I remember we came to the store to buy a piano, but all the “Germans” were very expensive and made in China. The store director said that a good German grand piano should be sought for the 1950s. And my administrator found one option. We arrived at the apartment, the owner said: “This is my black swan. Take it, guys! ”It turned out that the man’s wife had died, and he wanted to give the piano in good hands. So this tool with a fate, so many students of the conservatory learned on it. We played a lot on it. With the composer Alexander Morozov they composed the album “Blue my flowers”. Sasha is temperamental, strongly chisel on the keys of a turtle bone, but our "German" resisted under his pressure. The house has a lot of carving, stained glass, and all this is done according to the sketches of her husband.
Photo: Roman Kuznetsov- By the way, many famous people have my things. For example, the chair, made in our workshop, stands with President Vladimir Putin. He was ordered from me on one of the anniversaries of Vladimir Vladimirovich. This chair is made of bog oak, covered with the skin of a dark bear and decorated with Ural precious stones, and crowns with its two-headed eagle. I was told that the president liked the gift. There is in the house its own design workshop and the hostess.
- I make up my own collections, pick up the colorpalette. I keep my coat - a scene veteran who is over 20 years old, I even took him to performances in Chechnya. I wanted my Russian image to be reinforced by beautiful patterns and Russian sables. Usually four people work on one thing in the workshop for a month: the cutter, the dressmaker, the furrier, because there are fur inserts, and the embroiderer. So I saw that Karl Lagerfeld gave a show in the Louvre, and I thought: we, too, are not stupid and we have something to show in the Kremlin. And already twice successfully participated in the shows, which were held in the Historical Museum as part of the Russian Fashion Week, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. This year I also take part in it. And at the beginning of the year I presented the first lady of the USA, Melania Trump, with a cashmere and sable jacket. Now I wanted to make a gift to Anne Netrebko, the coat for me, which I called “Salute of Flowers”, is already ready for her. I signed with Anya through Instagram, now I am waiting for a visit. Here, in this room, there is also a sable fur coat, which Vadik gave me about 25 years ago. I went to Italy to the factory of fur coats, I saw the whole process of dressing and realized that they were breaking the technology: they pull the fur tightly. She refused Western fur coat, and Vadik presented Russian sable. A quarter of a century has passed, and it is like new.
Photo: Roman Kuznetsov- There is in the house and a 25-meter pool, helocated in the gallery with a glass ceiling and huge arched windows. Next to the pool is a Russian bath next door - a log cabin inside the house and a rest room. In the winter we swim in the pool, and in the summer in warm weather we swim in our pond. This pond is artificial and it has specially created a unique environment with the help of clay of different breeds, which kills microbes. In winter, it does not freeze through - more than four meters deep. Also there is equipment that enriches water with oxygen, so that the fish would be comfortable. There were many large fish in our pond: sturgeon, soma, white carp, and carp ... But not long ago, a black thief from the forest began to visit us as weasel, and she dragged all the big fish. Only the little crucians remained. We catch this caress, but so far to no avail. She comes at night - only a splash is heard as she jumps into the water.
Photo: Roman Kuznetsov“There are icons all over the house,embroidered with beads. 15 years ago, a girl called Olya came to me from our village and said: “Let's sell my icons”. I looked at her work and gasped. And Olya: “For me, icons are a miracle, when I don’t work on them, I’m covered with psoriasis, but as soon as I sit down for work, I heal.” So Olya began to work with us, and now her icons wherever you can see. We presented George the Victorious in the Donetsk region, and then we brought the same one to Syria and learned there that George, the Victorious, was born in that country.
Photo: Roman KuznetsovThe house has a knight's hall, where they like to spendtime of a man, he decorated with the use of stone and painting. There is also a collection of cold arms, a massive five-meter table made of rare wood species - alpine maple. Near a huge shop, upholstered by a six-meter python. By the fireplace lies the skin of a polar bear. “The owner of the house calls one of the cabinets a new word in furniture. She stands on the horns of a buffalo that lives in the region of the Kilimanjaro mountains. The horn of this animal can reach a length of one and a half meters. The chair standing in the hall is trimmed with the skin of an Ussuri tiger.
Photo: Roman Kuznetsov- Our home is not a fortress, but a creative one.workshop, maybe even a creative academy. We are currently working on creating a sea voyage museum named after Fyodor Konyukhov. It will be located on the yacht "Saint Victoria" in Sochi, which has completed two round-the-world voyages. Vika, Fyodor Konyukhov and I are also preparing for a new musical project, "Russian Space". It will result in Konyukhov's flight into the stratosphere in a hot air balloon with the goal of breaking the world record of 50 hours 39 minutes, set 20 years ago by the Japanese. "Russian Space" is a large-scale project, Emir Kusturica, Italian composer and producer Fio Zanotti (he has 12 platinum discs to his credit), Fyodor Bondarchuk, and possibly director James Cameron will participate in it. The libretto and songs for the musical are already being written. Vika is inspired by working with Zanotti. At the end of September, according to my project, a monument to the commander, 18 meters high, will be opened for Alexander Nevsky's birthday. It will be installed in the very place where Nevsky finally defeated the Teutonic Order on Lake Peipus.
