Valerie Leroux

Tucked behind century old pines, the austere and sombre green building looks ghostly. A plaque at the entrance reads simply: "Stalin’s Villa." Time was when an uninvited visitor would have been terrified to come even close to the so-called Red Tsar’s summer residence in southern Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi. But today, capitalism has triumphed and, for a price, anyone is welcome.