Friends! Let me write an open letter to a typical Russian director. You (dear Russians) know him So Dear Fedor Sergeevich! I am writing to you under the impression of a recently viewed advertisement for a computer game. You, too, when you started with something like that? Youve been a pretty good music video director. What the customers wanted, you did. Sometimes they corrected their work. No offense. As a result, we received money. And, on this wave, the idea appeared to create a full-size feature film. You consulted with friends, pondered what the viewer might like. And made a good film «The Ninth Company». An echo of the American Platoon. The first stupid household part could be immediately sent to the trash. The picture would only benefit from that. The second episode is something similar to the truth of life and, as they say, action. We liked. But then then you got seriously ill. Captured, as they say, a star. And they began to rivet films at their own discretion, without regard to the opinion of us, ordinary people. The main thing is that the «masters» are satisfied. For example, science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky. This is how the Inhabited Island meme was created.
2. One of the favorite places for recreation of Dzhugashvili and his family is the dacha of the former industrialist Zubalov. Timeline is a three-meter stone fence. The house was destroyed when the Nazi troops approached. Just like many other buildings suitable for living throughout the USSR in the shadow of the occupation, starting from peasant huts.
3. «Dalnyaya Dacha» otherwise «Semenovskoe». The former estate of Catherine IIs favorite, Count Orlov-Davydov. Urban district of the city of Stupino (Far Moscow region). In 1937, the museum of manor life had to move somewhere, and in its place, after a thorough reconstruction, another dacha of I. Dzhugashvili appeared.
4. Lipki Manor. Surrounded in four rows of barbed wire, the complex of buildings was erected on the site of a former manor house. Urban district of Mytishchi (closer to Dolgoprudny MO). The complex is now abandoned. Contemporary photography.
5. Stalins favorite, albeit relatively modest, dacha in Abkhazia was commissioned in 1947. The valley of the Lashepse river That is, the construction was carried out when millions of citizens of the post-war USSR were huddled in barracks and starved to death. There is a floating veranda connected to the shore by a bridge, a boiler room with 6 electric boilers, a 650 cc refrigerator. m., asphalt roads, area lighting, and the like. On the territory of 9, 3 hectares, a forest has been cut down, valuable species of trees have been planted, 4,600 pcs., 1200 and 40,000 bushes of various names.