There is an opinion that Maxim Galkin is a kind of lucky guy who achieved his position and multimillion-dollar fortune with the help of sparkling talent. But if you dig deeper, it turns out that the career of a parodist would hardly have developed so rapidly if not for the support of influential people: officials from the Presidential Administration, TV bosses, masters of humor, and show business tycoons. Our pop diva Alla Pugacheva can also be included in this list, since today she is one of the most influential people not only in Russian show business, but also in pro-government structures. So Maxim Galkin built his famous castle not alone, but with the help of those who helped him not only make millions, but also get a hectare of land in one of the prestigious areas of the Moscow region. The name of the village, Black Mud, where this castle rose, is also symbolic. Built with money from the oil boom (“black gold”), it became not only a symbol of the owner’s success, but also of all the dirt that covered our country in the era of wild Russian capitalism.