The Russian Island was owned by the commercial advisor Sellgren (E.W. Sellgren). In 1913, according to the project of architect Uno Ulberg, he built a beautiful villa made of red brick, 2-story, partially 3-story. The roof was covered with tiles. In the central square part of the villa with balconies on the top floor, there was a large dining room that opened at floor level onto terraces on both sides of the building. From the terrace, one could descend by stairs into the garden. After the war for freedom ended (the 1918 Civil War, editor’s note), architect Ulberg planned a marble altar sign in the garden in memory of the life and fate of Russian Island.

Russian Island became known when, during the 1918 war, a battle took place in Vyborg on January 19 between the Red Guards and a squad of Schutzkorps.

The estate had magnificent stoves, now partially lost.

During Soviet times, the estate served as a recreation base for the "Lengrazhdanproekt" institute, thanks to which the estate was preserved, almost the only one among the estates around Vyborg. A voucher for the recreation base of the "Lengrazhdanproekt" institute. Early 1980s.

There was a period when the estate was practically abandoned. In the winter of 2006, everything was wide open, with no security (except for threatening signs). Inside, it was clear that either homeless people or fishermen lived there. At that time, the fireplace in the large dining room was completely destroyed.

A source and local residents claim that a new residence for the president’s rest was built in Vyborg. The Sellgren villa — a cultural heritage site, an old estate on Lodochny Island near Vyborg in the Leningrad region — passed into the ownership of a family friend of President Vladimir Putin and may be used as one of the places for the head of state’s rest.

A source close to the administration of the Vyborg district revealed that a residence for Putin was built on one of the islands in the Vyborg Bay.

“After 2010, they began building Putin’s dacha there. He rested there at least once. He was taken there, among others, by the former head of the district Georgy Poryadin, who was a man of Ilya Traber,” the interlocutor told Dozhd.

It concerns a facility on Lodochny Island in the Vyborg Bay, near Vyborg itself, a few kilometers from it, Dozhd found out.

The owners of the land plot under the facility and the dacha itself turned out to be closely connected with Putin and the shareholders of the bank “Russia,” among whom are several longtime friends of the president. According to Rosreestr, all buildings on the territory of the supposed residence currently belong to the company “Sever.” “Sever” is also closely connected with the “Igora” resort of Yuri Kovalchuk.

Scenes from the film “Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: ‘The Twentieth Century Begins’” were shot at the estate. In the first episode, the counterfeiter colonel Lysander Stark and the spy von Bork, played by Kuravlyov, lived here.

Sources:

https://pub.wikireading.ru/h7iYxrywFH

https://www.221b.ru/geo/8-sellgren.htm

http://mirusadeb.ru/dvorec/usadba-sellgrena-na-ostrove-lodochnom.html