She was evicted from this home. It wasn’t hers, it legally belonged to her ex-partner, the father of her children. A Russian-born billionaire, he was pursued through the international courts for corruption and embezzling billions of Russian government money through property, development, banking and political projects. When the High Court of Justice and then the Court of Appeal in London upheld the global freezing of his assets, the judges also ordered him to remain in the UK to appear in court. He fled to France, where he is also a citizen. Since he broke the terms of the court orders, fled the country and failed to answer the Russian Government’s case in London, the Russian Government applied to seize his British assets, which they then did, including this house.
Yes, it is like a 19th Century novel really. The kind of novel that might have been written by her ancestor. Also, these kinds of lavish displays of wealth are so often bound up in chicanery and scandal...
I saw her rented home first and loved it. Actually love it more than this one. Don’t care if she’s rich or poor, sounds like a rough thing to go through
Yes, I like her rented, smaller house much more than this. She has such a talent for interior design and such beautiful taste. Gorgeous! And her own clothes. Exquisite.
Yes I much prefer her current smaller rental, it's got bucket loads of character One can see that it's much more her than this house. This place was pretty but it did not, by any mile, have the character that current one has. Sometimes we have to lose everything to come more into our own, and understand that in the end we haven't really lost anything.
@@GwaiZai Her husbands assets were frozen so they took everything and Alexandra had to start over with the children in a rented house and start to make a living for them all. She is doing well now, very brave lady.
@@GwaiZai That's mostly because she is Russian by her father and they are a strong resilient people who have known enormous hardships in their lives and it it still the case today.
This looked like your standard design magazine home, with only a few character notes. I much prefer her current smaller rental, it's got bucket loads of character and it's much cosier than this house. One can see that it's much more her than this house, it's just the cutest home I have ever seen. This place was pretty but it didn't, by a mile, have the character and charm that the current one has. Sometimes one has to lose everything to come even more into one's own, and understand that in the end one hasn't really lost anything.
The children's bedroom was truly magical and full of things to treasure and play with so good for the children's development and so lacking in many homes............................................
Indeed a great lifestyle. I used to live in London and go to Chelsea strolling around to get the rich people energy haha. I was like a kid looking at the toy store window
@@kayjay12341 Just a quick thought, I usually find botanical print images online and copy and paste them onto a file then adjust the size and print them off. Far cheaper than buying them and then you can put them into a frame. Hope this helps!
Between the two London homes she's shown around the same time (assuming she only lives in one and left the other), I think this is the nicer. This one has the antique elements, but in a more contemporary, lighter, fresher context. That said, I'm sure what matter most to her are having her things and an overall old aesthetic.
The more of these interior decor and architecture programs I watch the more I realise how unnatainable this lifestyle is unless it's already in your family. If you earn £200,000 a year, which is comfortably into the top 1% of salaries in the UK, that's still shy of a £1m mortgage. You can barely get an apartment in Chelsea for that. It's not uncommon on these programs for someone to live in a £10m home in West London without having an obvious income.
@@Jamie.Richards Your right. Not sure why they continue to promote lies about accessibility to wealth and nice housing when really about 3% of the population can experience this life style. You either have to be born into it win it or steal it to participate in this fantasy real estate world owned by the uber rich.
@Danbu Hsma She and her husband separated and may be divorced. He is exiled in his palace in France and she lives in the UK with her children. I'd read she was renting a house in Oxfordshire.
She doesn't live there any more, and lives in Cotswolds. Her Russian ex husband has stolen lots of money from the Russian state, so the Russian government had the permission from the British courts to confiscate this house.
All the money her hasband still from Russia and there people..I not surprised to see all this....and for her still not enough...She came to Russian TV and demand help for her pure ..miserable living in England ...She say nothing to eat for here and children in London ..can't pay bills ...and here in this display no spases where to have a spat!!!Well done Dear!!!!
@@alinatiwa Very simple!!! like her husband did...He live naw in France...and when he saw in his dreams Russia...he have never stop cold sweat !!!!because Russuan jail not like "4 seasons hotel "...."Black dolphin " would be best for him.I hope!!!
Can someone explain this (bad) architecture to me? Wonderful interior design in a weird row house 80s loft space that has a dropped second floor that covers all the light (?) It would be nice to see the exterior of the building to make sense of it.
I would be embarrassed to show the property bought with the money of her infamous ex-husband. Money was stolen from the Russian state by her hubby. Leo Tolstoy is turning in his grave.
I say one of her previous homes. I think she was renting and I liked that vive way more than this one. This is way more curated and still nice but for sure the other feeling is lost at least in the video. Still beautiful.
What Russians call седьмая вода на киселе. Means her blood is so diluted from Leo Tolstoy that it has nothing to do with the name. I wonder if she would have same attitude if her name would be Ivanova
Hmm, I actually was thinking she looks like Leo a lot. Besides, her creativity and a sense of wonder ( like riding horses all over the world), cultured tastes, as well as authentically embracing her heritage, makes her a worthy descendent of his, no matter how distant.
@@sentimentalboxer she most probably is a nice person. Please don't get me wrong. This surname would haven't been famous without Lev. As she sais herself, her family branch and Lev's one had a common ancestor in 18th century which probably 50 to 100 years before the writer was born. Needless to say how distant these brunches were even at the Lev's birth. There are hundreds of direct(!) descendants of Tolstoy today and thousands of cousins, now imagine if everyone of them would speculate on the name.
@@amysill3815 I very much doubt that, this is all stolen money and her husband is a criminal, the rest of her family are dodgy brexiters. Not sure why Christies is advertising the very average home of a criminal.
This display nothing to do with MY!!! beloved Russia !No in London ..and not when you not speak russian...This display for hopping to be counted Russian. I would love to see her hours like this in rural village...that is real...by forest and lake.. not this house of her husband stolen money from Russia.
I had to google this because of the comments, guess this is what stolen money buys! Too bad her partner is an abhorrent character. Nothing good ever comes out of badly earned money, that's certainly true here. Very bad taste advertising the home of a criminal. Her family is hardly better, Brexiters, gross. Bad move Christies!
YES! No more TVs over fireplaces (which is very BAD Feng Shui AND it is ugly). If I walk into a house and see this, it tells me everything I need to know about those living there.
@@ajfx Nothing shocking there. Her (ex) husband allegedly had dodgy dealings with the Russian government. He stopped providing for her and she had to move.
Yes I found it quite dry and wooden and the botanical prints overkill. The children’s “toys” are just too antique to be charming and came across as forced. Also the space looks messy and not layered quite right. That said the owner was ecstatic so there we are.
This woman is beautiful and natural - her spirit shines in her home
If you live in Claridge's, and can just wander into Colefax & Fowler and commission them to decorate yr home, then you too can have a lovely house.
But of course!
Especially when it’s paid with questionable 💰
Aesthetic Justice! We want it NOW!🍹
I would have wanted to die of a broken heart to lose this house. Impressed by her resilience 💪
She was evicted from this home. It wasn’t hers, it legally belonged to her ex-partner, the father of her children. A Russian-born billionaire, he was pursued through the international courts for corruption and embezzling billions of Russian government money through property, development, banking and political projects. When the High Court of Justice and then the Court of Appeal in London upheld the global freezing of his assets, the judges also ordered him to remain in the UK to appear in court. He fled to France, where he is also a citizen. Since he broke the terms of the court orders, fled the country and failed to answer the Russian Government’s case in London, the Russian Government applied to seize his British assets, which they then did, including this house.
Yes, it is like a 19th Century novel really. The kind of novel that might have been written by her ancestor. Also, these kinds of lavish displays of wealth are so often bound up in chicanery and scandal...
Now they can and should seize them back and let Ukraine live in it.
I wonder how much of those charges were trumped up by Putin.
I don’t blame her ex husband for fleeing. Putin kills anyone who decides to think for themselves and are no longer he’s men
So. What’s your point?
I saw her rented home first and loved it. Actually love it more than this one. Don’t care if she’s rich or poor, sounds like a rough thing to go through
I agree, her rental seems to suit her much better ad well
What rough thing did she go through?
We all encounter difficult times in life....
Yes, I like her rented, smaller house much more than this. She has such a talent for interior design and such beautiful taste. Gorgeous! And her own clothes. Exquisite.
Yes I much prefer her current smaller rental, it's got bucket loads of character One can see that it's much more her than this house. This place was pretty but it did not, by any mile, have the character that current one has. Sometimes we have to lose everything to come more into our own, and understand that in the end we haven't really lost anything.
Pleasure to see beautiful Orthodox icons on the mantelpiece 💖
Sad that she lost this house but she has moved on nicely and her new home is so pretty.
lost how? divorce?
@@GwaiZai Her husbands assets were frozen so they took everything and Alexandra had to start over with the children in a rented house and start to make a living for them all. She is doing well now, very brave lady.
@@TheFiown I have a feeling despite that, that she's been doing far better than most of us :/
@@GwaiZai That's mostly because she is Russian by her father and they are a strong resilient people who have known enormous hardships in their lives and it it still the case today.
What a lovely collection of the most interesting and beautiful objects.
I concur, I was left feeling is that all ? 2.48 minutes video? aawww
It’s quite lovely, l especially loved her botanical prints.
Yes so pretty were'nt they? x
This looked like your standard design magazine home, with only a few character notes. I much prefer her current smaller rental, it's got bucket loads of character and it's much cosier than this house. One can see that it's much more her than this house, it's just the cutest home I have ever seen. This place was pretty but it didn't, by a mile, have the character and charm that the current one has. Sometimes one has to lose everything to come even more into one's own, and understand that in the end one hasn't really lost anything.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Agree the only cozy room was the kids room
The children's bedroom was truly magical and full of things to treasure and play with so good for the children's development and so lacking in many homes............................................
Yes you can se how much she loves her kids she put her heart and soul into this room
Indeed a great lifestyle. I used to live in London and go to Chelsea strolling around to get the rich people energy haha. I was like a kid looking at the toy store window
I love EVERYTHING about your home !!
It's wonderful to see such houses like this and it's amazing 🌹🇱🇰🌹
Such and unusual building inside. I love the style and am so jealous of those botanical prints.
I’m going to look online for botanical prints and recreate something similar to that.
@@kayjay12341 Just a quick thought, I usually find botanical print images online and copy and paste them onto a file then adjust the size and print them off. Far cheaper than buying them and then you can put them into a frame. Hope this helps!
we are left with their imprints in our minds for good ....x
Between the two London homes she's shown around the same time (assuming she only lives in one and left the other), I think this is the nicer. This one has the antique elements, but in a more contemporary, lighter, fresher context. That said, I'm sure what matter most to her are having her things and an overall old aesthetic.
Rich Londoners live a lavish life. In the UK you really need that old money to really live life well. It's all about generational wealth.
I'm fairly sure her lifestyle was funded by her Russian oligarch husband, now in exile.
The more of these interior decor and architecture programs I watch the more I realise how unnatainable this lifestyle is unless it's already in your family.
If you earn £200,000 a year, which is comfortably into the top 1% of salaries in the UK, that's still shy of a £1m mortgage. You can barely get an apartment in Chelsea for that. It's not uncommon on these programs for someone to live in a £10m home in West London without having an obvious income.
@@Jamie.Richards Your right. Not sure why they continue to promote lies about accessibility to wealth and nice housing when really about 3% of the population can experience this life style. You either have to be born into it win it or steal it to participate in this fantasy real estate world owned by the uber rich.
@Danbu Hsma She and her husband separated and may be divorced. He is exiled in his palace in France and she lives in the UK with her children. I'd read she was renting a house in Oxfordshire.
@@roscoesfriend The Russian taxpayer, rather.
What a lovely home... what a great vibe💕🦋💕🦋💕
She doesn't live there any more, and lives in Cotswolds. Her Russian ex husband has stolen lots of money from the Russian state, so the Russian government had the permission from the British courts to confiscate this house.
Ha! And we ordinary mortals think how wonderfull life must be when you're THAT rich. Nothing is as it seems.
@@ivanahanaivana exactly!
Oh
The money stolen from the people of Russia.
Oh dear!
You and your Children are very blessed...
Love allllll the creativity and imagination... my kind of home completely..
❤
I love it! Wonderful creativity.
Stunning! So many lovely ideas. Truly reflects “family”
The botanical prints are everything
ooohh so pretty yessss ...x
It's dainty and cosy.... that's wonderful and love the palette💎🏺
Such a sweet home. :)
Lovely. I like that it looks lived in in a wonderful way. So many homes shown look stiff and unused.Would love to see more.
Comfortably beautiful
Una casa con verdadero sabor a hogar. Bella.
Please do show us more of your delightful home !!!
Beautiful and very livable home!
Comfortable, elegant, and welcoming. A play on the English country home, despite her Russian heritage!
Beautiful home 💕
Is very beautiful home mashaAllah. I love the kids room.
A beautiful cozy homely lived in stylish home 🌷🌷🌷
your love for the Ukraine people, is appreciated, God save them
Bombarded with stuff! Else looks good.
Wow Beautiful.
Beautiful lighting
very cosy and airy
All the money her hasband still from Russia and there people..I not surprised to see all this....and for her still not enough...She came to Russian TV and demand help for her pure ..miserable living in England ...She say nothing to eat for here and children in London ..can't pay bills ...and here in this display no spases where to have a spat!!!Well done Dear!!!!
How is it possible still with the surname Tolstoy❓
@@alinatiwa Very simple!!! like her husband did...He live naw in France...and when he saw in his dreams Russia...he have never stop cold sweat !!!!because Russuan jail not like "4 seasons hotel "...."Black dolphin " would be best for him.I hope!!!
@@irinaoconnor3236 , too bad for him....
Irina Oconnor , correct except he was her partner , not officially husband
although, its said Putin lives like a King and has squirrelled a lot of money away himself.
i‘m in love 🥰
I love those botany frames all lined in rows I would want to be in a hammock hanging in front of them so I could look at their every detail 🤓
Beautiful
Beautifull houve!
Can someone explain this (bad) architecture to me? Wonderful interior design in a weird row house 80s loft space that has a dropped second floor that covers all the light (?) It would be nice to see the exterior of the building to make sense of it.
what's a row house?
lovely home fitted of a countess...
I would be embarrassed to show the property bought with the money of her infamous ex-husband. Money was stolen from the Russian state by her hubby. Leo Tolstoy is turning in his grave.
Very true
Прекрасный дом
Потомки Льва Толстого
Смотрю на Вас и думаю о Ямной Поляне, что-то перекликается
I wish I had that much money..life would be easier
Bu. Çok. Mükemmel. Ve. Model. Tedrık Ederım seni. Hocam😍😍👍👍
It' wonderful lovely
Beautiful. 🥰
1:06 wow that massive flag doesn't work at all
Is she descendant of the writer?
How sad to lose it.
Lindo 🥰🥰🥰
Jolly good ol chap
I say one of her previous homes. I think she was renting and I liked that vive way more than this one. This is way more curated and still nice but for sure the other feeling is lost at least in the video. Still beautiful.
Не забрали дом?
дом ТОТ забрали - А это она "маленький" показывает, в который, бедняжка, перебралась)
Amazing what you can do with a shed load of money
What Russians call седьмая вода на киселе. Means her blood is so diluted from Leo Tolstoy that it has nothing to do with the name. I wonder if she would have same attitude if her name would be Ivanova
Hmm, I actually was thinking she looks like Leo a lot. Besides, her creativity and a sense of wonder ( like riding horses all over the world), cultured tastes, as well as authentically embracing her heritage, makes her a worthy descendent of his, no matter how distant.
@@sentimentalboxer she most probably is a nice person. Please don't get me wrong. This surname would haven't been famous without Lev. As she sais herself, her family branch and Lev's one had a common ancestor in 18th century which probably 50 to 100 years before the writer was born. Needless to say how distant these brunches were even at the Lev's birth. There are hundreds of direct(!) descendants of Tolstoy today and thousands of cousins, now imagine if everyone of them would speculate on the name.
Your home is wonder!
perfect
Lots of stuff. But yet boring.
So many things! And the British flag!
That to me was maybe what I liked the least! Why hang a flag in a house ?
Old Money..... Would her ancestors be proud of this and what she has done with this amazing gift?
Yes, of course, they would.
@@amysill3815 I very much doubt that, this is all stolen money and her husband is a criminal, the rest of her family are dodgy brexiters. Not sure why Christies is advertising the very average home of a criminal.
@@wickandde oh do bore off. As if Putin isn’t massively corrupt!
бывший олигарх всё таки содержит её? чем там история закончилась
а кто он?
@@СветаФокина-ж9т Сергей Пугачёв
Beautifull houve
Where’s her money come from?
So many beautiful items however,
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I do not trust the money that bought all this....
This display nothing to do with MY!!! beloved Russia !No in London ..and not when you not speak russian...This display for hopping to be counted Russian. I would love to see her hours like this in rural village...that is real...by forest and lake.. not this house of her husband stolen money from Russia.
Que linda
I had to google this because of the comments, guess this is what stolen money buys! Too bad her partner is an abhorrent character. Nothing good ever comes out of badly earned money, that's certainly true here. Very bad taste advertising the home of a criminal. Her family is hardly better, Brexiters, gross.
Bad move Christies!
YES! No more TVs over fireplaces (which is very BAD Feng Shui AND it is ugly).
If I walk into a house and see this, it tells me everything I need to know about those living there.
Красиво!
Really? It is very average.
It’s about location location location. This is MONEY
Ohh Wow special Indeed Surly Shes Not moving ??
Yes, the Russian government seized the property and kicked her out. Shocking to say the least
@@ajfx Nothing shocking there. Her (ex) husband allegedly had dodgy dealings with the Russian government. He stopped providing for her and she had to move.
@@MTMF.london they never married
😍😍👍
Different to say the least
Yes I found it quite dry and wooden and the botanical prints overkill. The children’s “toys” are just too antique to be charming and came across as forced. Also the space looks messy and not layered quite right. That said the owner was ecstatic so there we are.
Although its short lived , I wonder what enjoyment they got 😅🤣😂😶
Wow…this didn’t age well….
Married to a Russian Oligarch says PLENTY.
Lingua italiana
Don't like it, very cold without spirit, it doesnt look like a real home
Очень милая женщина.
пишут баба какого-то нашего олигарха, а теперь бабки наворованные у него отобрали , съехала на квартиру
privilege personified lol. beautiful house. riding with her kids in central asia, love that for her though
Oh wow this house is beautiful- her new rental looks a bit of a mess
Que mal gosto esse quadro de borboletas mortas , dead .
Poor,Lev Nikoláievich Tolstói !
Clutter with a capital 'C'.
Money comes from .........@#%%
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Trash with Cash
shameless!
proper minging gaff that like
it looks manky
All very sin people usually demonstrate a lot icons and talk a lot about God
You've just described us all. We are all 'very sin people'.
I don't find anything remotely creative in this interior!
By creative do you mean ugly?
Ugly no, very predictable, but then that's the way Colefax & Fowler approach interior design.
What other companies do you consider as creative?
@@benhallo1553 Studio Peregalli, Milan
Thank you for sharing your fascinating insight.