Just four months after we exclusively outed Russian billionaire Alexei Kuzmichev as the secret buyer of a $42 million quadruplex inside 33 E. 74th St. — a 33-foot-wide, seven-story townhouse — the unit is back on the market as a white box for an aggressive $44 million.
Kuzmichev is worth $7.6 billion, according to Forbes.
He made his fortune with his Communist Party youth group pals back in the day, as Russia made its mercurial transition from communism to capitalism, buying former state assets in rigged privatization auctions.
Kuzmichev’s Alfa Group launched Alfa Bank in 1990 — it was notably one of the only banks where hard hit average Russian people could get their money back when the ruble collapsed in 1998.
(We happened to be there then, and it was utter chaos.)
The four-story apartment is inside a property built by Grosvenor Atterbury in 1901.
The 10,088-square-foot building comes with five bedrooms, six bathrooms, an internal elevator — and a $13,792 monthly maintenance bill.
The listing brokers are Elliman’s Richard Steinberg, Matthew Slosar, Alexander Mignogna and Emanuele Fiore.