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"La Datcha was already beautiful, but Madison knew how to make it into a paradise," the businessman confides, adding, with a look of unmistakable pride, "It’s like no place else on earth."

Once on terra firma he climbs into a green 1952 Jaguar XK120, Echo by his side, and speeds to his final destination: a fairy-tale Russian-style getaway known as La Datcha.

So he sold the château but kept La Datcha and two and a half acres around it, including a rustling grove of birch trees.

Created some 25 years ago as a picturesque folly for Bergé and Saint Laurent by designer Jacques Grange, a longtime friend, La Datcha is a ten-minute walk from Château Gabriel, the late-19th-century neo-Gothic mansion that the fashion eminences purchased in 1980 and shared until the couturier’s death in 2008.

When Moscow correspondents chased about to verify these rumors they generally found the "terrible" B�la Kun resting harmlessly at a sanatorium not far from the Datcha of Stalin.