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Yakunhinhof
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Yakunhinhof
June 7, 2013 Julia Latynina
Periodically in Russia, scandals arise related to the palaces of our rulers. The first happened in June 2009, when Millergof was photographed from a private aircraft - a luxurious residence, apparently the head of Gazprom - a copy of the Konstantinovsky palace in full size.
The second in January 2010, when the first pictures of Putin’s Palace near Gelendzhik - a giant palace complex worth about $ 1 billion, with an amphitheater, a winter theater, a pier, an elevator for the beach, etc., etc., got into the network.
And now - the third. Pictures of the cottage Yakunin near Domodedovo appeared on the Internet, where the Bank alone occupies 1400 square meters. m., where limestone was taken from Germany (the Russian limestone does not suit our patriots), granite from Kazakhstan, and the ponds cost 150 million and, of course, this was not a summer residence. This is also a palace - like the palace of Count Sheremetev in Ostankino or Count Vorontsov in Alupka .
Now I will not be about the salary of the head of the Russian Railways JSC and about the meticulous compliance with the gospel commandment, which, if I am not mistaken, says that "in kind, the more the kid stole, the easier it is for him to enter the kingdom of heaven."
I'm talking about something else. The palace is not just a big house. The palace is a fundamentally different social structure of society. At the palace, unlike the hut, at home, villa, Townhouse, there are several important signs.
Firstly, they do not just live in the palace. It is controlled from it. Moreover, a market company from the palace cannot be managed. From it you can manage only the state, province or estate. The company is ruled from the headquarters : from the neutral territory through managers, and not from their own home through lackeys and courtiers. If you do not control the palace, it loses its content. From a functional building, it turns into what is called folly in English - A useless architectural structure, such as Pagoda or Roman ruins in the garden, built only in order to emphasize the status of the owner.
Secondly, the palace requires not limited labor . Either these are serfs, slaves, stinks, slaves, eunuchs, which you do not pay anything at all, or your finances are arranged so that the maintenance of the palace is the main article of your expenses, like Louis XIV or Lucius Lukullah. For this reason, not a single head of a market company, in principle, can build a palace. Bill Gates cannot build a palace. And the Duke of Malboro, Count Sheremetev and Prince Yakunin, it turns out, can.
Thirdly, the palace requires the presence of courtiers . Not guests for whom a guest room is allocated, not visitors to the party near the grill in the backyard. Its rooms and halls are built specifically to accommodate many petitioners who are socially above the slaves and stinks and who are sitting in the palace for hours to ask the owner of the palace about the position or favor. Asking privileges by sitting pants in the palace is a fundamentally different way of communication and enrichment than the market.
Fourth, unlike the home where the postman calls, and even more so the office where the client comes, only the elected palace visit the palace. Most of the world palaces, from Castello Sforzesco in Milan to the forbidden palace in Beijing, are fenced off from the outside world with a wall, behind which are enemies.
Question: Who has a palace in America? Answer: Only the American president. The White House fully has all the functions of the palace - this is the place where the president not only lives, but also where does the country rule, and, of course, the costs of maintaining the White House are not subordinate to economic logic.
The question is: who had palaces in England in the XVIII century? Answer: the king and the highest nobility, that is, those people whose money had a non -market character. When in the UK, the Labor has introduced large taxes on the inheritance and land, these palaces were not just empty: they instantly ruined their owners and for the most part were given to the state for nothing.
Question: Who has palaces in Russia of the XXI century? Answer: Putin and his close associates. The very fact of the existence of Millergof or Yakunhinhof indicates that neither Gazprom nor Russian Railways are close to corporations in any market sense of the word.