Pero entre els enormes edificis i els indicis d'un estil de vida excessiu (un zoo! un galió! un camp de golf!), periodistes i activistes trobaren un tresor molt més valuós —tones de documents estatals, llistes negres plenes de periodistes i activistes, i registres financers, alguns d'ells parcialment cremats, d'altres tirats a l'aigua a les ribes del riu Dnièper i el mar de Kíev.
But among the many grandiose buildings and signs of an excessive lifestyle (a zoo! a galleon ship! a golf course!), journalists and activists found a more important treasure - reams of paperwork on the estate, blacklists of journalists and activists, and financial records. Some of them were half-burned, others dumped in the water of the Dnieper river and the Kyiv Sea on the edge of the land.