Where did Gorbachev live? Where is Mikhail Gorbachev now living?

The only President of the USSR has celebrated his 84th anniversary not so long ago, but he continues to conduct active public activity. The houses where Gorbachev lived during his career changed from a modest rural house in Privolny to a luxurious state house "Barvikha-4".

Malaya Rodina - Stavropol Territory

Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931 in the village of. Privolnoy Stavropol Territory. There he spent his childhood: in a small house number 16 on Naberezhnaya Street. In the 70s, Gorbachev's mother sold the building, and now there lives pensioner Valentina Ivanovna. In the "appendage" to the house - the land: the parents of the former president were peasants, as well as both his grandfathers from his father's and mother's sides.

In the same village, one more house was preserved, where Gorbachev lived - on Shkolnaya Street. The village authorities offered this building (with the consent of the owner) to the local Orthodox parish, but the priest refused, since he considered that the maintenance would be too expensive. The house itself is closed, however, residents monitor the adjacent territory, clean and put it in order.

At one time there were plans to create a museum of Mikhail Gorbachev, but in the end they were never realized. In the village, there were no personal belongings of the ex-president, except for photographs stored in the central rural museum. As far as we know, the owner himself last appeared in Privolny in 2003.

Life in the capital

In the capital, M. Gorbachev moved with his family in 1978. He owned an apartment on the top floor in an elite house on the street. Kosygin. In it, he lived from 1986 to 1991.

When he was Secretary-General in the same house on the ground floor there was a guard, for which a separate apartment was allocated.

Both rooms were eventually acquired by Igor Krutoy. For the apartment of M. Gorbachev himself, according to unconfirmed reports, the composer paid about $ 15 million. A few years before this purchase, I. Krutoy acquired a "security apartment".

Some time, even before moving to the house on the street. Kosygin, the future president occupied an apartment in a nine-story building at the address: Granatny Pereulok, 10. The place where Gorbachev lived is also known as Pavlov's house.

After the Kremlin

After the dissolution of the USSR and the emergence of independent states in its place, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president. In 1991, the heads of 7 CIS countries signed an agreement that provided for a pension, dacha, car and security for the former "owner" of the Kremlin.

As a result of the contract, he was given a state dacha in the complex "Moscow-river", located 14 km from Moscow. Judging by publications in the media, in 2004 it was still the home of the ex-president. However, the place where Mikhail Gorbachev lives is much more famous. In addition, he was presented with a plot of land in San Francisco. There is the office of his "Gorbachev Foundation".

"The real German"

According to the information published by Anatoly Kholodiuk in the article "The Lodge" in Bavaria, where Gorbi lives, in 2005 Mikhail Gorbachev with his daughter Irina and granddaughters moved to Rottach-Egern, to the castle of Hubertus (Bavaria). The place where Gorbachev lives now is much more suitable for an elderly person than cool Moscow.

His first villa until 2007 was located on Aignerweg 2a, three hundred meters from the church of St. Laurentia. In 2007, the family acquired the so-called Hubertus Castle, located on Kreuzweg Street. Formally, the house is recorded with the surname Virganskaja (Julia Virganskaya - daughter of M. Gorbachev).

The "castle", where Gorbachev now lives, consists of two large buildings. Previously, there was a Bavarian orphanage. Despite the age, the ex-president leads an active life: in Munich publications from time to time there are articles about him, and a few months ago, in December 2014, he held in Moscow a presentation of his second book - "After the Kremlin."

Bowers

A separate topic for conversation is the dacha where Gorbachev lived. Somewhere he spent more time, somewhere - less. The buildings where the ex-president visited were the first and second state dinners in Livadia, the Mamonov dacha, the "near dacha" of Stalin in Fili-Davidkovo (currently within the boundaries of Moscow), known for the events of 1991, the Foros "Dawn", " Barvikha-4 ".

The state dacha No. 11, the so-called "Dawn" facility, is located in the bay between the Foros and Sarych capes. It was personally chosen by the Secretary General, the construction was completed in 1988.

The main building of the building has three floors and a penthouse, on the territory - a tennis court, a billiard room, a gym, a leisure center with a cinema, a sauna. It was "the place where Gorbachev lives" - he was constantly guarded from the sea by four ships, all on the land were controlled by KGB officers. It was here that the former president was also at the time of the August 1991 putsch .

Ex-President of the USSR, in addition, could use a five-story building in Musser (Abkhazia), located right by the sea, with a dock for submarines and stained-glass windows, finished personally Zurab Tsereteli.

This dacha began to be built immediately after his election as General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, in 1985. Unlike the rest places of the previous Soviet leaders, it is made luxuriously - there are guest rooms, an elevator, handmade stained-glass windows, expensive marble, porcelain and bronze chandeliers, a jacuzzi, expensive furniture. The construction of this splendor lasted until the collapse of the USSR. Now the building is empty.

Barvikha-4

The residence in Abkhazia is not the only place bearing the imprint of the personality of the former president of the USSR. In the late 80's, or more precisely, by 1986, the state dacha Barvikha-4 was built specifically for Mikhail Gorbachev in the place of the Botkin-Guchkov estate (not far from the village of Razdory).

It could rightfully be called the house where Gorbachev lives - the president's family used it from 1986 to 1991 and spent quite a lot of time here. The residence occupied 66 hectares. The territory was equipped with a beach, a water canal was run from the Moscow River to the residence.

"Barvikha-4" was built in a record time - for six months, and inside, except for the beach and small river, there was also a playground, gardens, aviary for dogs, tennis court and gym, even a helicopter pad in case of emergency evacuation of the president.

After the resignation of Gorbi, as it is called by the Germans, from the post of the president of the USSR, the dacha passed to the use of the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin.

Despite where Mikhail Gorbachev lives, comfort is always his. Since the ascent to the Soviet "Olympus" and until today, the residences have replaced each other, but the standard of living has consistently remained high.