Greetings from California: How an official’s children are trying to sell the Egg House

In the center of the capital, a unique Egg House is for sale, which is considered a striking symbol of Moscow architecture of the times Yuri Luzhkov. Life.ru and the Shot telegram channel found out who now owns it and what they do.

For an unusual house in the Chistye Prudy area on Mashkova Street, which is better known as the Egg House, they are asking 390 million rubles. Area – 345 square meters.

— Inside the outlandish shell there is a full-fledged residential apartment with a separate entrance and its own underground garage. The egg has a metal frame filled with brick and lined with red ceramics. The dome is covered with paintings in the spirit of the Renaissance. The apartment has three floors and an attic. There is a transparent elevator, underground parking for four cars, a gym, a sauna and two bathrooms, realtors describe.

They have been persistently trying to sell this house since 2007. Living in it, according to rumors, is inconvenient. It was erected in the early 2000s by an architect Sergei Tkachenko. Many consider this building one of the symbols of Luzhkov’s Moscow. Opinions about its cultural value vary, from “the worst example of architecture under Yuri Luzhkov” to “a real city landmark.”

According to documents, the Egg House is an apartment with an area of ​​278 square meters, located in an adjacent residential building. This fact gives reason to believe that the Egg may have been built in violation of construction legislation.

For many years, the owners of the outrageous house remained unknown. Life.ru and Telegram channel Shot found out who they are. This is Sergei Bystrov and Elena Bystrova – brother and sister. They got the egg from their father, the late Evgeniy Ivanovich Bystrov.

His name will mean nothing to modern Russians. There are no photographs or biographies of him on the Internet. Meanwhile, he was a very big and influential man. He made his career at Glavmosstroy of the USSR. During perestroika, he worked as chairman of the Moscow City Planning Committee and first deputy head of the Moscow City Executive Committee – in fact, Bystrov was then the second person in Moscow after Mayor Gabriel Popov.

It was Evgeniy Bystrov who created the system and laid down the principles for the development of Moscow, which were in effect throughout the Luzhkov era. His employees talked about this at one time. Among subordinates Bystrov of those years was also the famous Vladimir Resin, now a current State Duma deputy, formerly the right hand of Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

Evgeny Bystrov. If he were alive today, he would be 82 years old

In the 90s Evgenia Bystrova appointed manager of the Office of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev. This is what contemporaries remember about it.

In the nineties, zeros and half of the tenths, Evgeniy Bystrov was engaged in business. He owned shares in nineteen companies and was listed as a top manager of the Most group of oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky. In his old age, Bystrov was the chief editor of the Megapolis magazine.

In addition to the Egg House, he could also use other expensive real estate. A six-room apartment in a historic modern mansion on Bolshaya Molchanovka (price about 100 million rubles), apartments of similar size in a high-quality brick high-rise on Skakova Street (up to 75 million rubles), a mansion of 300 square meters in an elite building on Lesnaya Street (about 250 million rubles ) and five-room housing in a Brezhnev-era house on 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street (about 120 million rubles), a dacha in the Rublevsky direction, in the closed village of Zarechye, where households cost half a million.

Mansion on Bolshaya Molchanovka

Elite house on Lesnaya

The heirs of Evgeniy Bystrov, who are now selling the Egg House, may be not in Russia (*aggressor country), but in the USA. At least they are registered in San Diego and indicate this Californian city as their place of residence on their social networks. 53 year old Elena Bystrova lives on Cherry Hill Drive in a nice cottage worth over three million dollars. Her brother, 55-year-old Sergei Bystrov, occupies apartments costing more than $1 million in a residential complex on Reflection Drive.

The house where Elena Bystrova lives

Apparently, the brother and sister moved to the United States during their father’s lifetime. By the way, he also had a residence permit in San Diego and probably emigrated there after serving in the civil service. If you believe the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, his heirs for some time owned the Shelby Compliment jewelry company in their homeland; now this company has been disbanded.