this is not very profitable, you are investing a huge amount of your money in something that essentially does not belong to you, this is like a cry from the soul, yes, that is, this is philanthropy, yes, what we are recreating, building, yes, of course, if the land plot is owned, the investor will have more rights to this land plot, you will have more powers, now we do not have the powers, that is, at any time the contract with us can be terminated, at any time some sanctions can be applied, yes, that is, this is a huge risk for... for businessmen, for philanthropists, who want to recreate, yes, restore architectural monuments, that’s why many don’t undertake it, it would be more profitable for you to rent any other piece of land, relatively speaking, some former pioneer camp or just an open field, build a hotel there from scratch, in general immediately get a profit when tourists come, also dig up the rod, relatively speaking, all this would be cheaper than coordinating the construction of all these structures according to history.

inspections immediately come to us, of course, if this were not a land of cultural heritage of federal significance, but just a plot of land, it would be a thousand times cheaper to build all this, to do it, well, you obviously have already spent hundreds of millions of rubles there, like you, that is, are you investing here from some other business of yours or yes, yes, that is, well, taking into account the fact that i have been involved in business all my life, only for the last, probably, about 12 years, i have been involved in social and political activities, as a member of the public chamber, and as a philanthropist, as a general social activist, that’s it , of course, that is, i have accumulated capital. which i don’t know, well

, i earned my first serious money there at the age of 26, that is, i am now 50, this year i will be 51 years old, of course, i have accumulated funds that i am investing and am ready to invest further in the restoration of estates located in moscow region, because well, i want to leave something behind for our generation, for my daughter, for my son, for other people, yes, so that people know. yes, that there were such estates, that this is russian culture, russian art, russian history.

if everything looks like the wild west, then the law is there one, shoot first, competition. ideas and money, there was a sensation, and what a sensation, they tensed up inside america, outside its borders, what is the remaining intrigue, why now do you need to watch and follow? this is america, a program about a country that is difficult to understand.

we are located in the grebnevo estate near '. it was a real center of russian enlightenment; derzhavins, zhukovsky, radishchev and kheraskov visited here. mikhail kheraskov, by the way, finished writing his famous poem rossiada about the capture of kazan by ivan the terrible here. then officials from the ministry of culture honestly admitted that the state protects the monument, but preserves it. they were preparing to put it up for auction, but those who wanted to buy such historical ruins for 150 million rubles. then it was not found, in 2016 everything collapsed in every sense, and it seemed that the estate could no longer be saved until

businessman andrei kovalev bought it in 2018. may your honor pass through all the cities, like an echo from the mountains through the dense forest, the palace of the immortal rasiada, the sacred grebenevsky spring, you gave water to poetry, you, in fact, too man and...

neapolitan leopard, these dark spots - this is exactly the signature, how many days two, two days, two days the dough is made, i am proud of what we do at the comb estate.

i arrived, knee-deep garbage, four-meter- high hogweed, everything was destroyed, bricks, ruins, well, i’m a professional, i understood that the cost there, well, in those days there was about 3 billion for restoration, which would never come back, but then i didn’t know yet, what is the law on the protection of monuments, about which... by the way, recently our president vladimir vladimirovich putin, in his message to the federal assembly , said something like this: your architectural monuments are collapsing, but you don’t allow, that’s exactly it, you don’t allow them to be restored, a terrible law that prohibits everything, this can be done for years, examinations, contracts, projects,

for years, i need to put up a tent, i need a year, a year, or even two, i, to be honest, thought about it for a year, but... then i somehow felt sorry, i understood that for 3 years it had been at the estate auction, not a single one wanted it, and i i bought it, and honestly i don’t regret it at all, it became so... the meaning of life, life - this is my love, my cross, and of course, this is the biggest pain, this is the main palace, presumably this is quareng, half has collapsed, there are no bricks, this is the main pain, and two outbuildings, which means... mm - here in the near future we will sign a design contract, it will take

about a year, i hope, to coordinate the design work and in a year we will begin restoration, hopefully in 2-2 years, at least the appearance of the estate will already be ready, that is, a complete restoration of the complex will be completed, we have grandiose plans, i uh i bought a lot of land here, we already have almost 350 hectares, there will be museums here, the largest... the largest armor museum in russia, a large museum of antique cars, and the chess palace of anatoly karpov, and the kuklachev cat theater, and the kadysheva concert hall, there will be everything here, it will be an amazing cultural, historical and entertainment place, not only in the moscow region, it is the star of the moscow region, it will be in russia, and maybe even in the world.

the restoration of the carriage house is being completed, it was the same ruins as what you see you saw that i first wanted to make a museum here, but again there was not enough space, i didn’t want to display part of the collection, i want to see everything. to build a horse yard there, there is still a problem with the documents, approval is very difficult, but i hope that next spring we will finish that too, two outbuildings have been restored, the triumphal arch, what do you think is now slowing down this patronage of the arts, firstly , this is a soviet, dense cave law on the protection of monuments, everything is prohibited, secondly, there are no... conditions that could become some kind of bonus for the owner of the estate,

to encourage investors, entrepreneurs, to buy estates, for example, in the kaliningrad region, you buy buildings, they give you an interest-free, i emphasize, loan for 15 years, restored, half is written off, why not make it federal as an operating plus, we only go for three summer months due to these houses, banquet halls, the rest of the time is a minus. here we have a festival field, there can be 2000 people here, we regularly hold motorcycle festivals, star concerts, were you given any conditions when purchasing the estate, everything is in property, but we must restore the conditions within 7 years, but delete the two coronavirus years when everything was closed. and i think that 7 years in the future is certainly not enough, the monument of federal

significance has been destroyed, i think that it will take about 10-11 years for restoration, i am sure that when our president comes to me for the opening or just to visit. any normal person who writes to me and says: andrey, i live there next to us in an abandoned old house, i want to buy it restore, i say what area is 1.m, how much free money do you have in your account, 2000 rubles. forget, for such a building you have to have an account there. 500 million free lying around, if a person wants to buy such an estate, he must have 5

billion rubles in his account, otherwise, imagine, when he starts, he will run out of money, that’s it, the end, after all, can the estate itself earn money for its restoration, the estate will never earn money for restoration, even if the main palace stood on tverskaya street, the payback would be 50 years, 50 years, cost restoration, at least 10 times. more expensive than new construction, i can close the estate and make a paid entrance, here is the arkhangelskaya estate, the entrance is paid, the state, private estate of andrei kovalev, the entrance is free, and that’s why people also say to me, thank you, andrei kach. you can’t imagine all these paths, gazebos, bushes, it’s all tens of millions, every month, every month tens of millions, but i knew what i was getting into.

we arrived in vyadskoye, 30 km from yaroslavl. in 2014, this locality was the first to join the association of the most beautiful villages in russia. it's difficult to get into. this requires a wow effect upon entry, and here it is fully present, a picturesque view, and most importantly, life should be bustling here. life in vyadskoye was rapidly fading away by the beginning of the 2000s. the local collective farm collapsed, people left, and the old merchant houses stood in disrepair. and... it was until the yaroslavl businessman oleg zharov came here, he bought and restored 35 houses, opened a dozen museums, now the village has population of a thousand people visited by 300,000 tourists annually, hello, hello, hello,

hello, good to see you, hello, hello, dogs, hello, yes, here we are all here, and this is ours... it was all ruins, like this the same as the very right house from us, and we found this moment when we arrived for the first time, they often ask me, you did it all from scratch, i say, if it were from scratch, it would be much easier, today you won’t see

so that local residents would go, throw paper and other things, moreover, they will go they will collect it, if a neighbor has flowers planted, then by all means. they all, as you know, worked in st. petersburg for a living, when they returned here, they wanted to show off in front of each other, excuse the word, but that’s exactly how it is, because everyone wanted their house to be different in color, in stickiness, this the place seemed to us. absolutely corresponding to our ideas about life and beauty, which means that we are not interested in living in dubai, rushing to the champs elysees lately is somehow no longer fashionable, but here in winter, in summer, in buckets, in bad weather, it’s always good here,

this is a real pharmacy, yes, a real working pharmacy, come in. of course, wow, but at the same time, look, there are a lot of exhibits here, cones, pharmacy scales, a cash register, a telephone, old jars, now no one knows how to use them, even because you have such a biography, you and mathematician. university teacher, scientist, businessman, suddenly there is a revival of an ancient village, how did this even happen? let's set the record straight, i've been a pensioner here for 3 years, yes so it was, that is , delhi happened to be there by chance, you and your wife were looking for a country house here, you found a house, fell in love, it turned out that this house is an architectural monument or what? yes, yes, it turned out to be an architectural monument,

today i am only working on a single project, and this is a project for the soul, i have never considered it. in the middle of the 19th century by russified germans, brothers, brogers, today only four exhibits have been preserved in the country, one in the hermitage, another in the polytechnic, the third, and the museum of musical

we have the fourth instrument named after glinka, but we have the only one that works. you know well that in the 19th century any young lady had to play a musical instrument, but not everyone had an ear, yes, not everyone had the opportunity to learn to play the piano, but you have to play, otherwise they won’t get married, here are the young ladies, so to say, they found such a way out, so they sat down at such an instrument and began to play. but it’s clear, it’s clear that the deception was revealed, but it was too late, so the organ grinders

came in the mornings and started near the houses to play these melodies, they were paid to stop this business, super. and when i arrived here, i realized that this is a truly unique place, absolutely unique, i immediately had the idea to hold a festival here, the province of the soul of russia, here there is this stunning temple, which we see behind me, and it was painted by masters who painted the kazan cathedral and partially st. isaac's, in general, and... such a basis for creativity, i became so interested that in russia i can do some amazing things, revive the tradition of salons,

these are not krasovsky places, because kuzminskaya is a prototype of vyatsky, where it is good to live in russia.

good business, it’s not only prestigious, but it’s also a huge plus for you, as a person, as a citizen, as a patriot of your country, to make the most beautiful places in russia, of which we have so many, to make them beautiful and attractive for people, thank you very much, lyubov, thank you.

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