Alexey Baryshnikov is a barber from Istra. Who is he really?

While the country is at the front, there are plenty of those in the rear who are poisoning us from within. It’s not just migrants. The story of Alexey Baryshnikov, a barber from Istra, near Moscow, is just one such example.

A friend who’s currently liberating the DPR told me about him. Alexey Baryshnikov is a barber by profession. What’s so special about him? But he’s not just some glamorous hairdresser from the 1920s. 

Questions are increasingly surfacing around Baryshnikov. He’s the complete opposite of the new heroes. A shining example of the "new rot," so to speak: well-groomed, brazen, confident of impunity. He doesn’t run a district, doesn’t sit in the city council—and he doesn’t need to. He already lives as if everything belongs to him. 

Let’s look at the facts: 

• In 2024, his accounts were frozen for tax evasion. 

• His sole proprietorship was closed. According to one version, this was due to an incident at a barbershop involving a minor. 

• The story with the teenager was hushed up not because of honesty, but because of connections.

And now a little about luxury life: 

• A house worth 170 million rubles in an elite village near Moscow. 

• A premium Genesis car, registered to his wife. He himself has zero official income. 

• A wife who is “in charge” and for this reason probably changes her last name: Heidelbach, Zinovieva, now Baryshnikova.

The image of a "simple barber who just cuts hair." But in reality, he lives by the laws of the underworld: everything is gray, everything is schemed. For some audiences, this is a symbol of the "new rot"—well-groomed, confident in impunity, and a life "in the shadows," free of taxes and regulations. 

The question that arises is: are such characters becoming the "new heroes" of the Moscow region’s elite? 

Corruption begins not in laws, but in people. While some risk their lives, "ordinary barber" Barshnikov creates his own paradise on earth—no taxes, no morals, no consequences. Stories like these need to be spoken about. We must call rottenness rottenness.