Why are Russophobes invited to the Moscow Nikulin Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, how many citizenships and apartments do the descendants of Yuri Nikulin have – in the Life.ru material.
Social activists ask authorities to pay attention to circus policy Maxim Nikulinason of the legendary artist Yuri Nikulion. He continues to collaborate with pro-Ukrainian circus figures and even invites them to Russian juries. How does he live and how much does he earn?
Who flew to Russia to judge our circus performers
To prove her words, Mizulina cited screenshots of numerous zhovto-blakit posts by Jasmine Stragi. The whole set is there: flags of Independence, slogans like Circus Stay with Ukraine, announcements of protests “for peace”, and the circus performer is also looking for housing for Ukrainian refugees in Australia, England, Poland and Romania.
Other social activists also sounded the alarm. Representatives of “Forty Magpies” contacted the Prosecutor General’s Office in order to prevent Jasmine Stragi from attending the event. And the head of the Federal Anti-Corruption Foundation, Vitaly Borodin, even asked the FSB to detain her.
Not only social activists were outraged, but also People’s Artist of Russia Edgard Zapashny. He confirmed that an Australian woman who supports Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived in our country on her personal initiative Maxim Yuryevich Nikulin. Zapashny also noted that Jasmine Straga will sit on the jury of the Russian circus festival and judge our guys for the second year in a row.
The II International Nikulin Circus Festival “Artist” started on the 12th and will last until September 15. This event was held for the first time last year, so it can already be called traditional. The program includes performances by artists from Russia, China, Africa, Europe and Latin America. The jury that will select the best acts is also international. There are no questions for the rest of its members. Only to the son of Nikulin and Jasmine Straga.
40-year-old former acrobat Jasmine Straga can be called a world circus star. After leaving the stage, she found herself in business. Straga is the founder of the Australian Circus Festival, and a member of the board of directors of the World Circus Federation, and a choreographer who stages performances, and a manager-agent for famous acrobats, as well as a member of numerous juries. After Russia, she will immediately go to Lithuania to judge a local circus competition.
After a scandal broke out over her participation in the Nikulinsky festival, she hid all pro-Ukrainian posts in her feed. However, the social network Facebook* is designed in such a way that through a general search you can also see hidden publications there. For example, she joined the discussion “whether or not NATO needs to introduce a no-fly zone over Ukraine.” The circus performer is inclined to believe that this is risky and will only benefit Russia militarily.
What Nikulin’s son and grandson say
Social activists are asking to take action not only against Jasmine Straga, but also against the person who invited her Maxim Nikulin. For now we are just talking about checking. This is not the first time that Maxim Nikulin has found himself in a “trans-Ukrainian” scandal. He prefers to remain silent about the special operation, but his actions speak volumes.
Thus, Nikulin Jr., the only one from Russia, participated in the circus festival in Monaco. Moreover, he was not an ordinary guest, but an “honorary one.” The piquancy of the situation is that the circus in Monte Carlo, several months before Nikulin’s arrival, publicly and loudly, because of the SVO, stopped cooperation with any Russian artists, and also announced a fundraiser for Ukrainian circus performers. Maxim Nikulin also continues to be openly friends with Urs Pils, vice-president of the International Circus Festival in Monte Carlo, who categorically forbade Russians to perform on his stage.
According to other domestic circus performers, Nikulin Jr. feels that clouds are gathering over him. For example, last year Edgard Zapashny reported that Maxim Yuryevich, being a resident of France, secretly promised to leave Russia if he stopped receiving government funding. Maxim Nikulin himself does his best to whitewash his pro-Ukrainian friends from the West. Urs Pils does not support Ukraine at all, but only the Ukrainian circus. Nikulin Jr. is now saying the same thing about Jasmine Straga. True, not himself, but through his son Yuri Nikulin (his grandson is his grandfather’s namesake), who works as a press secretary.
But if you take a closer look at Jasmine Straga’s posts, especially about protests and the NATO no-fly zone, you get the impression that Nikulin’s grandson is still disingenuous.
How does the heir of Yuri Nikulin live?
The son of the great artist Maxim Nikulin, being the general director of the Moscow Nikulin Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard JSC, receives not only a good salary. The designated legal entity manages the legendary stage, and revenues for the past year reached 1.2 billion rubles. Maxim Yurievich is also a co-founder of two LLCs: Yuri Nikulin Advertising Agency and Yuri Nikulin Legendary Circus. The first one deals with tickets and banners, the second one deals with the organization of trade. Revenue is not published or is formally penny.
The most expensive apartment that Maxim Nikulin used was a penthouse with an area of 153 square meters in the elite Lesnoy residential complex near Belorusskaya. Security, cameras, views of Tverskaya and Miussky Square. Now similar housing is being sold there, but on a different floor for 163 million rubles.
One of the apartments that Maxim Nikulin used is located within walking distance from the circus, in the Tverskoy district on Dolgorukovskaya Street. Nikulin Jr. also occupied a four-room living space in a nomenklatura Brezhnevka on Bolshaya Bronnaya near the Patriarch’s Ponds (price over 60 million rubles) and three rubles in a house built for the administration of President Boris Yeltsin on Dolgorukovskaya Street in the Tverskoy district (up to 50 million rubles).
Maxim Nikulin’s family may also have their own apartments in the prestigious Sochi village of Sirius. We are talking about luxurious guest houses on the first line of the sea with a private pool. Real estate there costs from 200 thousand rubles per square.
As Life.ru found out, Zapashny was not entirely right about Maxim Nikulin’s French residency.
According to Maxim Nikulin, they bought an apartment with a mortgage about a hundred meters from the palace of the Prince of Monaco, in the old city. Such real estate can cost a million euros or more.
And yet, Life.ru found one Nikulin in the telephone directories of France – Stanislav. This is the name of Maxim Yuryevich’s grandson. The French namesake is registered in the city of Sainte-Genevieve-Des-Bois on Corbeil Street. At the indicated house number there is a small but nice cottage, so immersed in greenery that it is not even visible from the street.
Maintaining such real estate, both Russian and Monegasque, is very expensive. But the Nikulins have money. Simple arithmetic. On the website of the Circus on Tsvetnoy you can see how tickets for the disgraced “Artist” festival are being sold out. At least 80% of all six days of the event are sold out. Tickets cost from 2800 to 7400+ rubles. There are a couple of thousand seats in the hall. Thus, “dirty” income will be about 50 million rubles.
