The only President of the USSR not so long ago celebrated his 84th birthday, but still continues to conduct active social activities. The houses where Gorbachev lived during his career changed from a modest rural house in Privolnoye to the luxurious state housing Barvikha-4.
Malaya Rodina - Stavropol Territory
Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931 in the village. Privol Stavropol Territory. There were his childhood years: in a small house number 16 on Naberezhnaya street. In the 70s, M. Gorbachev’s mother sold the building, and now pensioner Valentina Ivanovna lives there. The “appendage” to the house is land: the parents of the former president were peasants, as were both his grandfathers on the paternal and maternal sides.
In the same village, another 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, because he considered that the service would cost too much. The house itself is closed, but residents monitor the surrounding area, clean and tidy it up.
At one time, there were plans to create the Mikhail Gorbachev Museum, but in the end they were never realized. In the village there were no personal belongings of the ex-president, except for photographs that are stored in the central rural museum. As far as we know, 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 house on the street. Kosygin. He lived in it from 1986 to 1991.
When he was Secretary General, security was located in the same house on the ground floor, for which a separate apartment was allocated.
Both premises were ultimately acquired by Igor Krutoy. According to unconfirmed reports, the composer paid about $ 15 million for the apartments of M. Gorbachev himself. A few years before this purchase, I. Krutoy also acquired a “guard apartment”.
For some time, even before moving to the house on the street. Kosygina, 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. In 1991, the heads of 7 CIS member countries signed an agreement that provided for a pension, a summer residence, a car and security for the former “owner” of the Kremlin.
As a result of the contract, he was given a state cottage in the Moscow River complex, located 14 km from Moscow. Judging by the publications in the media, in 2004 it was still the residence of the ex-president. However, the place where Mikhail Sergeyevich 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.
"Real German"
According to information published by Anatoly Kholodiuk in the article “The House” in Bavaria, where Gorbi lives ”, in 2005 Mikhail Gorbachev with his daughter Irina and granddaughters moved to Rottach-Egern, in the Hubertus castle (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. Lawrence. In 2007, the family acquired the so-called Hubertus Castle, located on Kreuzweg Street. Formally, the house is recorded in the name Virganskaja (Julia Virganskaya - daughter of M. Gorbachev).
The "castle", where Gorbachev now lives, consists of two large buildings. Previously, the 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 in Moscow of his second book, After the Kremlin.
Cottages
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 include the first and second state buildings in Livadia, the Mamonov’s dacha, Stalin’s “near dacha” in Fili-Davidkovo (now within Moscow), known for the events of 1991 forossky “Dawn”, “ Barvikha-4."
State cottage number 11, the so-called “Dawn” facility, is located in the bay between Cape Foros and Sarych. It was personally chosen by the Secretary General, the construction was completed in 1988.
The main 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 all were controlled by KGB officers. It was here that the ex-president was also during the August 1991 coup.
The ex-president of the USSR, in addition, could use a five-story building in Musser (Abkhazia), located right by the sea, with a pier for submarines and stained-glass windows, decorated personally by Zurab Tsereteli.
This cottage began to be built immediately after his election as Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU, in 1985. Unlike the resting places of the previous Soviet leaders, it is made luxuriously - there are guest rooms, an elevator, handmade stained-glass windows, trim in expensive marble, porcelain and bronze chandeliers, a jacuzzi, and expensive furniture. The construction of this magnificence dragged on until the collapse of the USSR. Now the building is empty.
