In St. Petersburg, closed for mere mortals the state residence “K-2” held a charity auction, organized by the Foundation of Alexander and Milana Kiriakovich “Stars for children”.

The trades were easy and fun, although Kerzhakov himself at a government dacha and did not appear – he had a match in Switzerland. So supervised by his wife Milan. And it is their task perfectly: in the evening managed to raise a record amount – more than 12 million rubles.

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  Milan Kerzhakov was visibly nervous, but that did not stop her brilliantly to cope with the role of mistress

Leading the auction were Dmitry Khrustalev and Igor Vernik, who not only collected money, and struggling entertained the audience. For two, they were able to “shake out” of the audience a little more than 12 million roubles! And wernick this ascribes most of the credit. At some point he even quipped to the address of the partner Khrustaleva: “Dmitry, you are disturbing us!”

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  Igor Vernik and Dmitry Khrustalev staged from a real auction the evening of humor

And there is no arguing: Wernicke is indeed a rich experience of conducting charity auctions – some even called him a “bloodsucker” for extraordinary ability to pull large sums to good causes. However, Milana’s guests were already ready to part with their money to help the needy.

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  Igor wernick – guests: “we will not Have rules of the auction. We’ll figure out on the go!”

In addition to the eminent presenters, the auction was attended by players of “Zenit” Yuri Lodygin, Oleg Shatov and Kerzhakov Michael, the younger brother of Alexander, now the goalkeeper of the Petersburg football club.

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  Players “Zenit” Igor Smolnikov and Oleg Shatov

Also among the guests were designer Alina Herman, contestant on “the Bachelor” Daria Herman, designer Igor Gulyaev and famous Director and producer Boris Grachevsky, which put up for sale your personal lot – a tour of shooting the legendary “jumble”.

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  Contestant on “the Bachelor” Daria Herman and designer Alina Herman

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  Designer Igor Gulyaev (right) with the satellite

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  Igor Vernik and Boris Grachevsky with a name lot

Recall that a charity auction under the auspices of the “Stars for children” took place in St. Petersburg for the third time. And for the second time a major participant in the auction was the elegant brunette in named Natalia, who came to the auction with my daughter and son. She famously parted with millions of rubles, buying paintings, collectable wine, and other art objects.

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  The main benefactor of the St. Petersburg – mysterious and beautiful Natalia

At one point Natalie was a little distracted by talking on the phone, wernick immediately said: “No you can’t do it!”. Put the phone away from your ear, the philanthropist smiled: “the kids and I talked.” A few minutes later in a bitter struggle she had acquired the porcelain manufactory PlancPaon hand painted in art Deco style on the sketches by Leon Bakst for 2 million rubles, what Khrustalev joked: “the Kids of today the Railways just do not get it!”.

The most expensive lot, which brought the Fund of 2.5 million rubles, were paired paintings by artist Sergei Liakhovich “Peter I” and “Hermitage”. Over half a million were sold earrings “La Sylphide” from the jeweler Peter Aksenov. Over a million left lot the Creator of the “jumble” Boris Grachevsky.

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  The most expensive lot of the auction was a pair of paintings by the artist Sergei Liakhovich “Peter I” and “Hermitage”

A little more “pulled” a master class with Olympic champion in figure skating Adelina Sotnikova he gave 1 million 100 thousand rubles. By the way, this lot looked very juicy, but recently the press attributed to Alexander Kerzhakov novel with this world-famous figure skater.

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  When the auction got to lot’s Adelina Sotnikova, took the stage children: it was assumed that mom and dad sitting in the audience, emotional and pay per lesson for your child more

In his closing remarks Milan Kerzhakov once again emphasized that all data collected at the auction money will go to the trust Fund “Stars for children”. Note that less than a year of work the Foundation Kiriakovich took care of 156 children from low-income families of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. Read more about the work of the Fund, its problems and achievements, read the exclusive interview that Milan Kerzhakov gave to Woman’s Day shortly before the start of trading.