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“mmekourdukova” sent me in offtop this picture Vladimir Brintsalov’s palazzo from http://ru-compromat.livejournal.com/301549.html.

So what’s new? America is littered with such residences from the late 19^th century, when huge fortunes were there for the making, and labour was cheap. Two or three generations later, after two world wars, a depression and a (relatively) redistributory tax system, they had become unaffordable, and many of them were donated in the 1950s and 1960s to religious orders and turned into monasteries.

But come to think of it, I'm sure there is more than one Russian higumen who would find such a space quite to his taste, even if the chandeliers had been sold off by time he moved in …….