– There were no strangers here yet, such a virgin place. You are my first guests, – said the singer, meeting “Antenna” at his dacha, which is located next to the Polenovo Museum-Reserve in the Tula Region.
July 27 2017
The house is the fruit of my crazy fantasies. I saw him in this style. All furniture is piece – made to order. Started building three years ago. The house stands on the former Stone Mountain. When the foundation was poured, they broke several excavator buckets – such a strong stone below. The frame was made of pine. It is imperative to cut the forest in winter and put a log house in the cold season. And until the fall, he must insist in order to get up correctly. Then the windows are cut out – this is a long-term technology. Construction continues to this day. Extensions, a guest house, gazebos are being made. Workers live here all the time, at the same time they guard everything.
The construction went on with difficulty. They poured a screed in the basement, suddenly it began to leak from the roof and flowed all winter. Gathered a council, turning into convulsions. They took off part of the roof to figure out who screwed up there. Identified, but did not shoot, because it is not the 37th year. The house has three floors (including a basement). Upstairs there are four bedrooms, bathroom, balconies. On the main floor there are two more bedrooms and a bathroom plus a living room, dining room and kitchen. There is also a bathroom in the basement and in the same room where building materials are still lying, but soon we will install billiard and tennis tables, there will be a full-fledged gym. In the meantime, I rolled there two oak barrels – for homemade preparations. Each bathroom has a shower. I did not put a bathtub so that the household did not stay there for a long time and did not relax.
Households are a wife and sons. The eldest, Alexei, works on television, on NTV, as a director of the Dachny Answer program. The youngest, Igor, graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art this year, and now attends courses at Ostankino. She dreams of becoming a TV reporter or an announcer. Sania’s wife is the head of the sports dance team, a purely urban person: she doesn’t like digging in the ground, she doesn’t like flowers, mushrooms, unlike me. It is extremely rare in the country. I come here as soon as I have a free minute. Right now I accept you, and in a few days I will come to the unveiling of the monument to Igor Talkov. He was born in the village of Gretsovka, Shchekino region, about 100 km from my dacha. I was friends with Igor, sang his songs, performed at his concerts. And it is a great honor for me to be invited to participate in perpetuating his memory.
To the right of the house there is a Russian bathhouse, but the firebox is Finnish – with birch or oak firewood. Birch gives aroma, and oak burns for a long time. Pine cannot be heated: it gives off resin. The bathhouse is a holy place, alcohol and heavy food are excluded there. On the table – tea, lemon, jam, bagels, crackers, gingerbread. We spend there at least two or three hours, or better – half a day. As a rule, we go to the bathhouse with our sons in the evening, but it is good around the clock.
I recommend everyone to live not in concrete, but in wood. In such houses, insomnia disappears, pressure is restored. Someone took air measurements at my place: they say, like in the Swiss Alps. And the inscription “A. Glyzin “above the porch and in the kitchen was made as a surprise by the builders, first asking for my autograph.
A friend of mine, who has an art gallery, occasionally donates paintings for his birthday. He is a philanthropist, he buys up the works of young artists, arranges their exhibitions. Dutch landscapes are also hung on the walls, but these are copies.
I have a cat Yashka for three years. In winter he came to the construction site tiny, squeaks. The guys who worked here fed him, and now such an absolutely arrogant animal has grown up. But you can’t live without it: you definitely need a cat in the house. True, they don’t let him inside especially – he drags everything from the table. The bowl is outside the door. And in the absence of people, he, like a real hunter, goes to the forest and finds food for himself. Sometimes it brings us prey: mice and birds. He was bitten by ticks twice, but nothing – he coped with an infection that could be fatal for a domestic animal. Here is such a fighter!
At the dacha I try to distract myself from professional affairs. Now I’m in devastation after the Three Chords show. Compared to the first season, it has changed for the better. Everything is performed live, in one take. In one of the rooms, I had to jump off the table to make it look more fun. It worked out at the rehearsal, but on the set I stood on the edge of the table, and when he went, he almost broke his leg.
At the age of six or seven, I came here, to the sanatorium on the Oka River, with my mother, a responsible employee at the Ministry of Railways. Nostalgia has brought here again. Not far from the dacha there is a protected area protected by the state. Here is the natural museum of our great artist Vasily Polenov. I went to the bank of this river, which is called Skniga, or Sknizhka, and flows into the Oka, I saw how beautiful it is here. It looks like a waterfall, and the sound of falling water threw me into a daze. I was offered to show more sites, but I fell in love with this once and for all. And when boats, skiffs, kayaks float along this river … Ah! The descent from my house is steep, about 30 piles are driven in.