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Petro Oliynyk, a Lviv grocer who took up residence as the guardian of Mezhyhirya, the lavish former home of deposed pro-Russia Ukrainian president Vladimir Yanukovych. Oliynyk wears the national flag of resistance as a cape.

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Petro Oliynyk, a Lviv grocer who took up residence as the guardian of Mezhyhirya, the lavish former home of deposed pro-Russia Ukrainian president Vladimir Yanukovych. Oliynyk wears the national flag of resistance as a cape. Photo Credit: Arnie Weissmann

Petro Oliynyk, a Lviv grocer who took up residence as the guardian of Mezhyhirya, the lavish former home of deposed pro-Russia Ukrainian president Vladimir Yanukovych. Oliynyk wears the national flag of resistance as a cape.

A vertical tanning bed in Mezhyhirya's spa measures skin tone for a perfect tan.

Oliynyk provides commentary to visitors in the private chapel that Yanukovych had installed in his home in Mezhyhirya.

Former president Yanukovych had his own likeness portrayed as the face of God in a stained glass window in the chapel.

Yanukovych's living room. Many of the rooms in his former mansion had intricate wooden parquet floor designs.

Yanukovych's piano was a limited edition white Steinway grand signed by John Lennon, one of only 25 made. This one is numbered 2/25; no. 1 belonged to Libya's deposed dictator Muhammar Qaddafi, and was destroyed when his residence was looted and vandalized, according to Oliynyk.

A visitor stands in the wood-trimmed shower stall in Yanukovych's master bathroom. The splashwalls are covered in intricate mosaics and (not shown) the room is lit by a Lalique crystal chandelier.

A few of the models displayed at Mezhyhirya's Museum of Antique Cars.

Outside the mansion, Oliynyk gives directions to a visitor navigating the 500 acres of Mezhyhirya on a Segway.

Yanukovych's guesthouse, where Vladimir Putin is believed to have stayed on two visits to the compound.