It's no secret that having a home is one of the basic needs of any person. No exception and the powers that be. But if ordinary people live in apartments, at best in houses or cottages, then the heads of state live in luxurious mansions and palaces that cost hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars.
One can cite as an example at least Saddam Hussein. The now-deceased “great Saladin and the celebrated leader of Iraq” had dozens of palaces in different
corners of the country. These were luxurious buildings with a beautiful interior, often with intricate labyrinths, which included corridors, halls, rooms. His palaces impressed with the magnificence of forms and interior decoration. One of them was built in his hometown of Tikrit. He ordered some of his villas to be surrounded by date gardens and artificial lakes. Some of them were destroyed in the war, some are now open to visitors like museums, others have made high-class hotels.
Another Middle Eastern dictator, former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, left his heir a huge palace, the total area of all buildings of which is approximately five hundred thousand square meters. This residence is not inferior in luxury to any of Saddam's villas. The current president uses his father’s palace not only as a home, but also as a place for diplomatic negotiations, meetings with journalists and so on.
As for the current head of the Russian Federation, it can be said that he does not like to flaunt his love of chic and luxury. On the other hand, he does not live in a rented apartment. Almost every palace of Putin is hidden and, if possible, recorded on the balances of his friends, relatives or state corporations. Total
there are, according to some reports, up to three dozen such residences throughout the Russian Federation. Putin's Palace, built near Gelendzhik on the site of a pre-cut relict forest, is a huge complex with Italian-style buildings and all kinds of amenities. About a billion dollars was spent on its construction. Built in 2006, this palace of Putin. A photo may give some idea of it. A lot of high-profile scandals are connected with him, many journalistic investigations were devoted to him.
One of the four official residences of the Russian leader, in
which he lived with his family for a long time, is located in Novo-Ogaryovo. This Putin palace was built at the end of the nineteenth century. In the fifties, the chairman of the Council of Ministers Malenkov lived here. Under Khrushchev, it was used as a house of receptions for various delegations. After the
collapse of the USSR, this residence was not used by anyone for ten years, and in 2001 the head of the Russian Federation settled here. In it, in addition to a chic mansion, there is a swimming pool, a church, a house, greenhouses and, of course, stables. The love of the head of the Russian Federation for horses and horseback riding is widely known.
Sochi Palace of Putin "Bocharov Ruchey" is located in a forested valley. This residence was built in 1934 by order of the military commissar Voroshilov. A little strange name - from the river, which once flowed nearby. This Putin's palace is now fenced by a high fence, hidden from the views and visits of strangers.