ACF tried to photograph Timchenko’s house on Sparrow Hills, which Vedomosti is writing about today, a few months ago. But first, there were trees, and second, there were those hellish FSO officers (Russia’s Federal Protective Service) guarding this Lair of Evil more tightly than the Kremlin itself. Everyone was detained immediately.
I’ll write separately about this house-hotel of Timchenko’s — the story is far from fully uncovered — but for now, note that the most astonishing part of *Vedomosti*’s investigation is not about the house at all:
Not quite Caligula’s horse yet, but it’s getting there. The mad emperor’s little dog is flown around on a business jet whose flight hour costs tens of thousands of euros.
It’s just that when people say “Moscow is the Third Rome,” they should add in parentheses: in the time of Caligula.