An exorbitantly luxurious house located in Rublevka near Moscow, is selling for a mind-boggling market value of 100 million US Dollars.
According to Yahoo! Homes :
At 25,316 square feet, the house exterior “is distinguished by aristocratism, the interior by palatial splendor,” says the listing, whose prose is every bit the worthy complement to the mansion’s barocco style. (We were a little disappointed, though, to learn that “barocco” is just a variant of “baroque.” We initially took it to be a neologism implying something exceeding baroque, exceeding rococo.) “There is much gilding,” it avers; the facade “copies the style of out-of-town mansions of European aristocracy.”
As for the surroundings, the mansion sits on 2.4 acres guarded from the clamor of the Rublevo-Uspenskoye highway by a noise-muffling pine forest. “An opportunity has been granted to Nikolino residents to derive daily aesthetic pleasure by the designers of the settlement who designed amazingly beautiful recreation areas with parkways, artificial ponds, pedestrian pathways, summer houses and sculptures,” the listing says. “At the same time the artificial landscape” — including a gas station and a supermarket — “does not spoil natural splendor, to the contrary it harmoniously blends with the landscape.”
All we can say is:
This must be what heaven looks like!
