Inside Putin's Secret $1 Billion Palace

On a forested cliff above the Black Sea stands what investigators call the most expensive private home ever built — a 17,691 m² Italianate palace at Cape Idokopas near Gelendzhik, Russia, with a reported price tag of over 100 billion rubles (about $1.35 billion). It has its own church, casino, underground ice hockey rink, vineyards, 2,500 m² greenhouse, a tunnel to the sea — and its own no-fly zone. And officially, nobody wants to claim it. In this episode, I take you through what the leaked floor plans and four hours of hidden-camera footage reveal is inside, follow the money trail first described by whistleblower Sergei Kolesnikov in 2010, and relive how Alexei Navalny's 2021 film "A Palace for Putin" — now viewed more than 130 million times — turned a secret estate into the most famous house in Russia, complete with a €700 toilet brush that became a protest symbol. All figures are reported estimates drawn from published investigations (Anti-Corruption Foundation, Proekt, Meduza, Vedomosti, The Washington Post) and are allegations that remain disputed; the Kremlin denies the palace belongs to Vladimir Putin, and billionaire Arkady Rotenberg has said the property is his. This is a documentary of luxury, not a statement of legal fact. CHAPTERS: 0:00 The $1.35 Billion Secret 1:23 Where Is It? 3:05 Inside The Palace 4:53 Following The Money 6:56 The Film That Broke The Internet 8:46 The Hidden Camera 10:25 The Most Disowned Home On Earth Music: "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 -- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #PutinsPalace #Luxury #Billionaire #MostExpensive #Russia #BlackSea #Mansion