The address of Mikhalkov's dacha on Nikolina Gora. Where does Nikita Mikhalkov live: a Moscow apartment and a manor estate. Modernity meets the old
Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov - Russian actor, director and screenwriter. One of the suburban areas of the popular producer is located on Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway.
Housing Mikhalkov is located in the village of Nikolina Gora. Here is a large mansion, made in the classical style. The house has 2 floors and a brick and marble facade.
There are several ways to enter the house. The main entrance is distinguished by large columns and doors with glass inserts.
The interior is created using natural materials. Most of the rooms are dominated by wood finishes. There are also green plants indoors. The furniture is ideally combined with finishing materials.
The house has a lot of elements made of natural wood.
The mansion is built on an area equal to several hectares. In addition to the main building, there are guest houses and decorative buildings. The adjacent territory is ennobled and has lighting.
In the courtyard there are trees, ornamental plants, stone paths and even a pond.
Without exaggeration Andrei Konchalovsky can be called a man of the world, so much time he lives and works in different countries A: America, France, Italy, England, China.
But among hundreds of others, one place is especially dear to the director - the house on Nikolina Gora, half an hour from Moscow, where the Mikhalkov family has lived since 1951.
“It is important for me that I live on Nikolina Gora, on this land,” says Andrey Konchalovsky. “After all, our family settled here more than 50 years ago, my brother and I had our own house, and next to our parents we had our own. I spent my youth here and so many vivid memories are associated with this place.
So it is not surprising that after spending many years away from this home in America and Europe, Andrei Sergeevich, together with his wife Yulia, returned to " family nest". More precisely, in 2000, Konchalovsky and Vysotskaya decided to move from Los Angeles to a dacha outside Moscow just for the summer months.
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However, instead of summer months the couple spent a whole year on Nikolina Gora, after which they decided that they were finally moving here to live. AT home Andrey Sergeevich felt great, but Yulia took a long time to get used to the new place. "Before this arrival, I saw the house on Nikolina Gora: once we drove past with Andrei Sergeevich, and he pointed out through the open gate:" Look, there is our dacha ". They just didn’t go in, because everything was dug up there, the construction of the dacha was going on Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov.
“Now the brothers’ dachas are opposite each other: Nikita Sergeevich rebuilt the house where he once lived with his brother, and Andrei Sergeevich occupied his mother’s house. And when we moved in, everything was comfortable,” Yulia continues the story, “but the house is still seemed to me not only uninhabited, but alien. At first I began to wash, scrub, clean everything, because when you come to a new place, you want it to “smell of you”. And then the idea was born to rebuild it, I wanted to scale.
For example, the kitchen turned out to be too small, and when guests came, everything turned into a mess. ”Konchalovsky had long wanted to make a spacious hall and a library in the house. When the director returned to Russia in the early 90s, he built a third over two floors, where his office is now located.
But Konchalovsky set himself a difficult task: in no case did he want to radically change his mother’s house, so the new part had to fit into the overall picture. But now the director proudly says that not a single board has changed in the old part, he succeeded connect elements of the old and the new. Although some redevelopment parent part happened: where it used to be kitchen, — children's bathroom; instead of a veranda - now winter Garden , and also in this part of the house - spouses' bedrooms, cabinet Konchalovsky and sports room.
And the new part of the house is basically a living room, above which, on the balcony, there is a library, and in the basement there is a spacious kitchen and dining room.
Arguing with Yulia over how they should look common Home, Konchalovsky practically did not arise.
Except a couple of times. “In general, I don’t understand anything in architecture, so my husband came up with the whole concept of the house,” the actress admits. “But sometimes I did get involved. For example, those arches in the living room, which I now really like, caused me rejection before construction.
And I am very glad that my husband did not agree with me and did it his own way.
But the kitchen, dining room, my bathroom and bedroom were decorated the way I wanted.” Julia decided that the kitchen should be in the Provencal style. After looking through dozens of books, she chose the cabinets, chairs, tables she liked, sketched out sketches, according to which Russian craftsmen made furniture. The idea for the design of the dining room, located next to the kitchen, was given by ... two carved chairs from three hundred years ago.
Focusing on them, we made all the furniture in the dining room - and similar chairs, and a large dining table. And only by how her bathroom should look, Yulia did not find support from her husband: “I wanted it to have logs and even a wooden floor, thinking that I would be very neat, I wouldn’t even take a shower, but only lie in the bathroom by candlelight. But Andrey Sergeevich convinced me, saying that it was unreasonable. Now there is a warm, dark stone.
Andrey Konchalovsky was fully responsible for filling the house - what will be the external and internal finishes. "Husband loves old furniture, but it’s just important for me to be cozy, cute, ”explains Vysotskaya. And in confirmation of her words, the director adds: “In our house, with the exception of computers and players, there are no modern things.
I don't like modern, which makes me feel like I'm in a gynecologist's waiting room. I do not like medical cleanliness, because life itself is not sterile. In addition, I am not a supporter of one style in the interior, so there is no single style in the house, no furniture sets. All together, all mixed up, as in life. Of course, the items are taken away, but it's still a free flight.
Practically nothing was specifically purchased for the house on Nikolina Gora. Much has been brought here from the former places where the Konchalovsky couple lived. So, an armchair from the beginning of the last century was bought a long time ago at a Los Angeles flea market, a brand new sofa moved from the same city.
Stepan and Elizaveta Mikhalkov in the garden of their house near Moscow.
Stepan Mikhalkov acquired the site quite a long time ago and during this time he managed to consider many projects in the very different style. Deliberately modernist architectural ideas were not liked by the customer (“I don’t really like it when a house looks more like kindergarten seventies”), experiments on the theme of a European castle or, on the contrary, a stale hut, I also wanted to avoid. The owners leaned more towards Western European rural architecture and finally settled on its Flemish version.
On the one hand, this is not surprising: Stepan admits that, in addition to his own construction plans, he loves Belgium very much. In addition, he is one of the founders of the Moscow concept store, which represents the Belgian furniture brand Flamant in Russia. So the Belgian architect Stefan Boens made the project of the house, and numerous books and albums devoted to both traditional Flemish houses and modern Belgian country minimal became a help in order to make certain interior decisions. Between which, by the way, there is no stylistic abyss: modern designers still love natural, “warm” materials and simple eternal forms, and their minimalism still looks rather patriarchal.
As a result, it turned out that the house, as it were, tells the story of several generations. Perpendicular to the main volume with elegant brick facades, another one was added - with a wooden cladding: that is, the building is actually, of course, one, standing on the same foundation, but it looks exactly like a large barn attached to a wealthy village house. Which, over time, was slightly rebuilt and adapted for housing - and in fact it happens all the time. From the street, this quasi-attachment is not noticeable, only a strict and elegant front facade with a broken lawn in front of it is visible. But behind the house is a less formal garden with apple trees and greenhouses, cozy not so much in the Flemish way, but in a completely suburban style. Only, unlike ordinary dachas, where the owners often have to choose - either a bright house or a shady garden, in this house there is always plenty of daylight.
First living room. Floors in French fumé oak, ceiling in domestic oak. The fireplace is made to order.
Second living room (aka library). In the background is a staircase leading to the second floor where the bedrooms are located.
Moreover, the walls are painted in White color, the ceilings are lined with light oak, and the rooms are spacious. “Initially, in my character, probably, everything should be made with furniture,” Stepan laughs. - So it was with the previous house, and here at first there was also a desire to arrange more things. We probably bought furniture for two such houses.” But Elizabeth insisted on self-restraint - as a result, Flamant furniture is arranged not sparingly, but very well: each item stands in the only possible place that generations of previous owners have found for it.
The feeling of an ideally lived-in old house, which seems to remember decades and centuries of a peaceful, measured life, is probably the most pleasant thing in this interior. It is clear that such a sensation is not created at the snap of the fingers, but here everything neatly works for him. And the layout with carefully found proportions, and the color scheme with natural light tones (the darkest shades in this range are French “smoked” oak on the floor and the leather of the chairs), and “quiet” decor.
It seems that everything is simple and not embellished, like an authentic folklore motif, but this is costly simplicity with sophistication of workmanship even in details that are not the most flashy in appearance. The shelving in the second living room-library is made of seasoned, antique wood, the door and window handles are made by French artisans who make similar things according to great-grandfather patterns, and the fireplace, in the spirit of laid-back rustic baroque, is so skillfully hewn and so delicately aged that a modern product in it difficult to identify.
In 2017, Nikita Mikhalkov was recognized as the largest owner of real estate among representatives of culture. He declared an apartment in the capital of 207.8 m², 6 residential buildings, a small one has total area 68.5 m², large - 697.3 m². In addition, in his possessions there is a cottage of 554.2 m². We have listed only premises suitable for habitation, and did not say about other real estate, which is estimated at an impressive amount. Fans are interested not only in their estimated value, but also - it can say a lot about its owner. Today in the review of the site we will reveal all the secrets of the country mansion of Nikita Mikhalkov.
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Family estate of Nikita Mikhalkov
The country house of Nikita Mikhalkov on Nikolina Gora was built on the site of an old building that had fallen into disrepair. Here he spends almost everything free time and always strives to escape from the metropolis to his own.
There is a story at the estate of Nikita Mikhalkov
In the past, Nikolina Gora was not considered an elite place, first there was a graveyard, then a monastery of the same name, which eventually overgrown with houses and became a real Russian village. In the 20s of the last century, they began to build in this place for representatives of the cultural nobility. Richter, Prokofiev, Veresaev were the first to move here, and only in 1949 did the Mikhalkov clan settle.
Second floor of Nikita Mikhalkov's country house
The second floor of the estate is reserved exclusively for the families of the artist and him. The rooms are quite small, but there are several of them, and everyone can take a break from the bustle of the city in solitude. The office is decorated in a restrained classic range; rare family photos and interesting shots from the filming of the director.
It is interesting! 6 toilets were built throughout the singer's house.
Conclusion
As you can see, Nikita Mikhalkov put his whole soul into the construction and design of a country estate, which has become a real family estate. The entire interior is made in a classic design with natural Liberty elements. Smooth combinations of directions are close to nature, this was the main task of the artist - to create a cozy family hearth. The director is proud of his creation and considers it the best for relaxation.
