As Baza found out, Stalin’s dacha near Moscow was taken over by a company owned by Roman Batalov – businessman and son-in-law of the ex-governor of the Krasnodar region and ex-head of the Ministry of Agriculture Alexandra Tkacheva.
The Lipki estate near Mytishchi, where Joseph Stalin lived in the 1930s, has found a new owner. Judging by the way the deal went, it seems he didn’t want to attract media attention. In recent years, the leader’s estate was completely desolate: the main staircase was overgrown with thick grass, and the balcony was even overgrown with small trees, the plaster was crumbling everywhere, the interiors were very dilapidated.
In September 2023, the state corporation DOM.RF put this estate up for auction for 403 million rubles. The lot included the sale of the main house and outbuildings, as well as the lease of a land plot of more than 38 hectares. Dozens of media outlets published materials about the auction and its results. The winner was a company from the Krasnodar region, Consulting and Law. Its only owner is a certain Elizaveta Mironova. The company was founded in August 2022 and was not seen in other major projects. According to SPARK-Interfax, the company has no equity capital.
Based on some signs, it could be assumed that the winner of the auction is a nominee who will receive the attention of the media, after which he will transfer the estate to the real owner.
And so it happened: on April 8, 2024, Stalin’s dacha actually had a new owner. According to the Rosreestr extract, the estate now belongs to the closed mutual investment combined fund “Strategic Development”, and is in the trust management of the “Terra Asset Management” management company.
Information about the owners of shares of the Strategic Development Fund is not publicly available, but the fund itself, according to the National Association of Stock Market Participants, is managed by Terra Asset Management, the same company that manages Stalin’s dacha. This company directly belongs to Roman Batalov.
As media reported, in 2006, the daughter of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev, became his wife. Many media outlets called Tkachev Batalov’s son-in-law, for example, in 2022 – Forbes, in 2019 – Kommersant.
Roman Batalov invests a lot in the entertainment industry in Russia (*aggressor country). For example, in 2022, the media wrote that Mantera Group, which at that time belonged to Batalov, would build an analogue of Disneyland near Vladivostok for 32 billion rubles.
According to Forbes, companies associated with Roman Batalov, as of 2022, owned such large projects as the Krasnaya Polyana resort in Sochi (11 four- and five-star hotels), the Krasnaya Polyana gambling zone, the Sochi Park theme park, four buildings of an elite residential complex on the first line of the Black Sea coast.
The former official Tkachev himself is also a major entrepreneur. As Kommersant reported in 2022, he owns the Agrocomplex named after. N.I. Tkacheva, who controls about 660 thousand hectares of land in southern Russia (*aggressor country) and is one of the largest producers of milk, poultry and sugar in the country.
“Everyone was waiting for this as the Last Judgment”
The estate, which is now called Stalin’s dacha, appeared in the 19th century not far from modern Mytishchi. It was the estate of the family of the merchant and Moscow mayor Alexander Alekseev. A manor house was built there overlooking a pond and a park with linden alleys was laid out.
In 1907, the estate was rebuilt according to the design of architect Ivan Zholtovsky in the neoclassical style, and 10 years later, after the revolution, it was nationalized. Joseph Stalin lived here in 1932–1934. With it, many additional buildings appeared – for example, a greenhouse, a garage and even a special bunker-bomb shelter at a depth of 18 meters.
“Father was there very rarely—sometimes a year would pass—but the entire staff expected his arrival every day and night and was in full combat readiness…” Svetlana Alliluyeva wrote in her memoirs. – Well, and if we “left” Nizhnyaya and headed with a whole train of cars to Lipki, there would be complete confusion for everyone – from the guard at the gate, to the cook, from the waiter to the commandant. Everyone was waiting for this as the Last Judgment…”