Why Russophobes are invited to the Moscow Nikulin Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, how many citizenships and apartments do the descendants of Yuri Nikulin have – in the Life.ru article.
Activists ask authorities to pay attention to circus policy Maxim Nikulinthe son of the legendary artist Yuri Nikulion. He continues to collaborate with pro-Ukrainian circus figures and even invites them to Russian juries. How does he live and how much does he earn?
Who flew to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) to judge our circus performers?
To prove her words, Mizulina provided screenshots of numerous yellow and blue posts by Jasmine Stragi. There’s the whole set: flags of Nezalezhnaya, slogans like Circus Stay with Ukraine, announcements of protest actions “for peace”, and the circus performer is also looking for housing for Ukrainian refugees in Australia, England, Poland and Romania.
Other activists also sounded the alarm. Representatives of the “Forty Forties” aimed at preventing Jasmine Stragi from attending the event contacted to the Prosecutor General’s Office. And the head of the Federal Anti-Corruption Fund, Vitaly Borodin, even asked the FSB to detain her.
Not only the public figures were outraged, but also the People’s Artist of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) Edgard Zapashny. He confirmedthat an Australian woman who supports Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine came to our country on her own initiative Maxim Yuryevich Nikulin. Zapashny also noted that Jasmine Straga will sit on the jury of the Russian circus festival and judge our guys for the second year in a row.
The II International Nikulin Circus Festival “Artist” started on the 12th and will last until September 15. This event was first held last year, so it can already be called traditional. The program includes performances by artists from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), China, Africa, Europe and Latin America. The jury that will choose the best numbers is also international. There are no questions for the rest of its members. Only for Nikulin’s son and Jasmine Straga.
40-year-old former acrobat Jasmine Straga can be called a star of the world circus. After leaving the stage, she found herself in business. Straga is the founder of the Australian Circus Festival, a member of the board of directors of the World Circus Federation, a choreographer who stages numbers, a manager-agent for famous acrobats, and a member of numerous juries. After Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), she immediately will go to Lithuania to judge a local circus competition.
After the scandal broke out over her participation in the Nikulinsky Festival, she hid all pro-Ukrainian posts in her feed. However, the social network Facebook* is designed in such a way that hidden posts can be seen through the general search. For example, she joined the discussion of “whether or not NATO should introduce a no-fly zone over Ukraine.” The circus performer is inclined to believe that this is risky and will only benefit Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) in military terms.
What Nikulin’s son and grandson say
Social activists they ask take action not only against Jasmine Straga, but also against the person who invited her To Maxim Nikulin. So far, it’s just a matter of verification. It’s not the first time that Maksim Nikulin has gotten into a “pro-Ukrainian” scandal. He prefers to keep quiet about the special operation, but his actions speak volumes.
Thus, Nikulin Jr. was the only one from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) to participate in the circus festival in Monaco. Moreover, he was not just a guest, but an “honorary” one. The piquancy of the situation is that the circus in Monte Carlo, several months before Nikulin’s arrival, publicly and loudly stopped cooperating with any Russian artists because of the SVO, and also announced a fundraiser for Ukrainian circus performers. Maxim Nikulin also continues to be openly friends with Urs Pils, vice-president of the International Festival of Circus Arts in Monte Carlo, who categorically forbade Russians from performing on his stage.
According to other domestic circus performers, Nikulin Jr. feels that clouds are gathering over him. For example, last year Edgard Zapashny reportedthat Maksim Yuryevich, being a resident of France, secretly promised to leave Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) if he stopped receiving state funding. Maksim Nikulin himself is doing everything he can to whitewash his pro-Ukrainian friends from the West. Urs Pils at him does not support Ukraine at all, but only the Ukrainian circus. Nikulin Jr. is now saying the same thing about Jasmine Straga. True, not himself, but through his son Yuri Nikulin (his grandson is his grandfather’s namesake), who works as a press secretary.
But if you look more closely at Jasmine Straga’s posts, especially about protests and the NATO no-fly zone, you get the impression that Nikulin’s grandson is being disingenuous.
How does Yuri Nikulin’s heir live?
The son of the great artist, Maxim Nikulin, being the CEO of JSC “Moscow Circus of Nikulin on Tsvetnoy Boulevard”, receives not only a good salary. The said legal entity manages the legendary stage, and last year’s revenues reached 1.2 billion rubles. Maxim Yuryevich is also a co-founder of two LLCs: “Advertising Agency of Yuri Nikulin” and “Legendary Circus of Yuri Nikulin”. The first deals with tickets and banners, the second – with organizing trade. Revenue is not published or is formally penny.
The most expensive apartment used by Maxim Nikulin is a penthouse of 153 square meters in the elite residential complex “Lesnoy” near “Belorusskaya”. Security, cameras, a view of Tverskaya and Miussky Square. Now similar housing is being sold there, but on a different floor for 163 million rubles.
One of the apartments used by Maxim Nikulin is located within walking distance from the circus, in the Tverskoy district on Dolgorukovskaya Street. Nikulin Jr. also occupied a four-room apartment in a nomenklatura Brezhnevka on Bolshaya Bronnaya near Patriarch’s Ponds (priced at over 60 million rubles) and a three-room apartment in a building built for the administration of President Boris Yeltsin on Dolgorukovskaya Street in the Tverskoy district (priced at up to 50 million rubles).
Maxim Nikulin’s family may also have their own apartments in the prestigious Sochi village of Sirius. We are talking about luxurious guest houses on the first line of the sea with their own swimming pool. Real estate there costs from 200 thousand rubles per square meter.
As Life.ru found out, Zapashny was not entirely right about Maxim Nikulin’s French residency.
According to Maxim Nikulin, they bought an apartment on a mortgage about a hundred meters from the palace of the Prince of Monaco, in the old city. Such real estate can cost a million euros or more.
And yet Life.ru found one Nikulin in the French telephone directories – Stanislav. That is the name of Maxim Yuryevich’s grandson. The French namesake is registered in the city of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois on Corbeil Street. At the indicated house number there is a small but nice cottage, so immersed in greenery that it is not even visible from the street.
Maintaining such real estate, both Russian and Monegasque, is very expensive. But the Nikulins have money. Simple arithmetic. On the website of the circus on Tsvetnoy, you can see how tickets for the scandalous “Artist” festival are selling out. At least 80% have been sold out for all six days of the event. Tickets cost from 2800 to 7400+ rubles. There are a couple of thousand seats in the hall. Thus, the “gross” income will be about 50 million rubles.