English: Photograph by Rob Hornstra. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2007 - Aleksander Zelekson, a retired policeman, in his living room. From the book: 101 Billionaires (2008).
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When Alexander Zelekson (62) hears that a photographer wants to photograph him, he races back to his apartment to put on his official suit. We are shown around by Anna, a girl in her twenties from Nizhny Novgorod. We walk along the banks of the Oka River. Anna loves her city. ‘This is the future of Russia,’ she says. ‘Investors from Moscow have decided to turn this into a second Moscow.’ The area comprises a few Soviet flats and a whole lot of wooden houses that have stood here for decades. These will have to make way for the ambitious investors’ new building projects. The residents are being bought out for a song. If they refuse to cooperate, they could find that their wooden house suddenly and spontaneously bursts into flames. It remains to be seen whether Alexander Zelekson is already aware of this. For more than 40 years he worked in Nizhny Novgorod, both at the metal factory and for the police. He is now retired. He arrives in a hurry, with police cap and all, to pick us up again. We go to his small apartment in the Soviet block of flats. Now and then, he still pulls over a car that is driving recklessly. ‘They can’t do without me,’ says Zelekson. Anna starts to get impatient. She doesn’t feel like translating for us. She prefers to give people a wide birth and when we finally start talking to someone like Zelekson, she mostly translates the stories with: ‘Oh yes, they’re always the same stories. Old bores.’
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