The only President of the USSR recently celebrated his 84th birthday, but still continues to be active in public activities. The houses where Gorbachev lived during his career changed from a modest rural house in Privolnoye to the luxurious state dacha Barvikha-4.
Small Motherland - Stavropol Territory
Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931 in the village of. Privolnoye, Stavropol Territory. His childhood years also passed there: in a small house No. 16 on Naberezhnaya Street. In the 70s, M. Gorbachev's mother sold the building, and now pensioner Valentina Ivanovna lives there. Land is added to the house: the parents of the former president were peasants, as were both of his grandfathers from the paternal and maternal sides.
In the same village, another house where Gorbachev lived has been preserved - on Shkolnaya Street. The village authorities offered this building (with the consent of the owner) to the local Orthodox parish, but the priest refused, as he considered that the maintenance would be too expensive. The house itself is closed, but residents are watchingthe surrounding area, 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. There are no personal belongings of the ex-president left in the village, except for photographs that are stored in the central rural museum. As far as is known, the owner himself last appeared in Privolnoye in 2003.
Life in the capital
M. Gorbachev moved to the capital with his family in 1978. He owned an apartment on the top floor in an elite building on the street. Kosygin. He lived there from 1986 to 1991.
During his tenure as Secretary-General, the same house housed security on the first floor, for which a separate apartment was allocated.
Both premises were eventually acquired by Igor Krutoy. For the apartments of M. Gorbachev himself, according to unconfirmed reports, the composer paid about $15 million. A few years before this purchase, I. Krutoy also purchased a "guard 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 10 Granatny lane. 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 from the post of President. In 1991, the heads of 7 CIS member states signed an agreement that provided for a pension, a dacha, a car and security for the former "owner" of the Kremlin.
As a result of the agreement, he was given a state dacha in the Moscow River complex, located at 14km from Moscow. Judging by the publications in the media, in 2004 it was still the residence of the ex-president. However, the place where Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeevich lives is much more famous. In addition, he was given a plot of land in San Francisco. The office of his "Gorbachev Foundation" is located there.
Real German
According to the information published by Anatoly Kholodyuk in the article “The house in Bavaria where Gorbi lives”, in 2005 Mikhail Gorbachev moved with his daughter Irina and granddaughters to Rottach-Egern, to the Hubertus castle (Bavaria). The place where Gorbachev now lives 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. Lawrence. In 2007, the family acquired the so-called Hubertus Castle, located on Kreuzweg Street. Formally, the house is registered in the surname Virganskaja (Julia Virganskaya is the daughter of M. Gorbachev).
The "Castle", where Gorbachev now lives, consists of two large buildings. Previously, a Bavarian orphanage was located here. Despite his age, the ex-president leads an active life: articles about him appear in Munich publications from time to time, and a few months ago, in December 2014, he held a presentation of his second book, After the Kremlin, in Moscow.
Dachi
A separate topic for conversation is the dacha where Gorbachev lived. Somewhere he spent more time, somewhere - less. The buildings visited by the ex-president include the first and second state dachas in Livadia, Mamonova dacha, Stalin's "near dacha" in Fili-Davidkovo (incurrently - within the boundaries of Moscow), the Foros "Zarya", "Barvikha-4", known due to the events of 1991.
State dacha No. 11, the so-called "Dawn" object, is located in the bay between Capes Foros and Sarych. It was personally chosen by the Secretary General and completed in 1988.
The main building of the building has three floors and a penthouse, on the territory there is a tennis court, a billiard room, a gym, a leisure center with a cinema, a sauna. It was "the place where Gorbachev lives" - from the sea he was constantly guarded by 4 ships, on land everything was controlled by the KGB. It was here that the ex-president was also during the August putsch of 1991.
The ex-president of the USSR, in addition, could use a five-story building in Myusser (Abkhazia), located right by the sea, with a berth for submarines and stained-glass windows, decorated personally by Zurab Tsereteli.
This dacha began to be built immediately after his election as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, in 1985. Unlike the resting places of previous Soviet leaders, it is luxuriously made - there are guest rooms, an elevator, handmade stained glass windows, expensive marble trim, porcelain and bronze chandeliers, a jacuzzi, and expensive furniture. The construction of this splendor dragged on until the collapse of the USSR. The building is currently empty.
Barvikha-4
The residence in Abkhazia is not the only place that bears the imprint of the personality of the former president of the USSR. In the late 80s, more precisely, by 1986, on the site of the Botkin-Guchkov estate (not far from the villageDiscord) the state dacha "Barvikha-4" was built specially for M. Gorbachev.
It could rightly 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. A beach was equipped on the territory, a water channel was laid from the Moscow River to the residence.
"Barvikha-4" was built in record time - in six months, and inside, in addition to the beach and the river, there was also a playground, gardens, an aviary for dogs, a tennis court and a gym, even a heliport in case of an emergency evacuation of the president.
After the resignation of Gorbi, as the Germans call him, from the presidency of the USSR, the dacha was transferred to the use of the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin.
Despite where Mikhail Gorbachev lives, he is always surrounded by comfort. From the time of the ascent to the Soviet "Olympus" and until today, the residences have succeeded each other, but the standard of living has always remained high.
