Masha Rasputina and Oksana Fedorova at a party at the Diaghilev Club in 2007

The premiere of Sergei Minaev’s new project “Zero” took place on more.tv. The first series is dedicated to the club life of the glamor era – perhaps one of the main signs of that time. Those who created them and those who enjoyed them described the wild parties. Spletnik has already watched the series and has collected interesting quotes and memoirs.

The drama is full of nostalgic episodes rather than scandalous details, but the members shared some interesting details. The focus of the series, of course, was Diaghilev’s most popular club of the 2000s, which everyone wanted to get into, invented by one of the most famous supporters of the 2000s, Alexei Gorobiy.

The seats in the boxes there were occupied by people from the top ten Forbes, and these seats cost 30-40 thousand dollars. Mikhail Prokhorov, Rustam Tariko and other oligarchs often visited the clubs. There were hundreds of bottles of Dom Perignon and Cristal champagne in the bar, and sometimes they weren’t enough – somehow, at the client’s request, I had to borrow a few bottles to fill the bathroom in the box with champagne. From the gallery restaurant. Tables were also not cheap – the most expensive somehow went for 80 thousand dollars on New Year’s Eve.

– remembered Maxim Leikin, a friend of Alexei Gorobiy.

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For many of the film’s protagonists, the fire that destroyed Diaghilev on February 7, 2008 became as much a symbol of the end of an era as the economic crisis that year.

Party in the club “Dyagilev” in 2007

The film also reminded of the famous security guard at the entrance Pavel Picchugin, known in Moscow as Pasha Face Control, who soon became a real star of the capital’s club life.

– Anna Konchakovskaya, a dancer from Diaghilev, recalled the work of the club.

– The organizer of the club, Mikhail Kozlov, spoke about the seriousness of Pasha Face Control.

The film also includes archival interviews with Picchugin himself (who died in 2019).

The excitement of passing face control, of course, brought public attention to the club, but the participants in the film admitted that Diaghilev’s popularity is largely due to Alexei Gorobiy (he died in 2014).

– Igor Shulinsky, the founder of the cult magazine Ptyuch of the 90s, said about him.

He also described the boom period of club life as “the collapse of the newly rich wanting to feel like aristocrats”.