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9/11 terrorist attacks (2001) 17, 288, 337
Aberuchill Castle, Perthshire 148
ABK 43
Abraham, Spencer 230
Abramovich, Anna 43
Abramovich, Arkady 41
Abramovich, Irina 41, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129, 152, 159, 162, 163, 199, 200, 201, 348
Abramovich, Roman 20, 81, 115-16, 133, 204, 323, 342, 362
appearance 43, 117
appetite for conspicuous consumption 16
art collecting 367
Berezovsky as his bitter enemy 15, 45, 315-16
and children’s education 163-4, 356
and Daria Zhukova 159, 163, 180, 189, 199-203
as a dollar billionaire 363
establishes ABK 43
expensive take-away 26-7
the ‘family’ 51
fortune seriously depleted 364
friendship with Deripaska 55, 319
governor of Chukotka 159, 232, 356
initial friendship with Berezovsky 43
jet-set image 117-18
jets, yachts and cars 151-6
legal writs served on him 127-8
marriages 42-3, 196
meeting with Berezovsky and Patarkatsishvili 91-3
orphaned, aged three 41
owner of Chelsea Football Club 15, 125-6, 127, 137, 158, 160, 274, 315
personality 41, 43, 121-2
property purchase 115, 117, 122-3, 124-5, 128-30, 142
and Putin 159, 163, 343
security 130-31, 162, 163
as a shadowy figure 123-4
and Sibneft 41, 44, 96-7, 98, 99, 100, 102, 115, 126, 157, 160
source of his oil fortune 15
Abu Dhabi 98, 99
Aeroflot 39-40, 43, 77-80, 87, 90, 91, 103, 118, 157, 173, 263, 365
Aga Khan 122
Ageyev, Nicholas 170
Aguilera, Christina 202
AIG 362-3
Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) 7, 8, 9
Air Force One 152
Al Fayed, Mohamed 163, 203
al-Qaeda 288
Al-Tajir, Mahdi 94
Alcoa 331
Aleksandrovna, Lyudmila 69, 70
Alexandrovka (Berezovsky’s dacha) 53, 90
Alexandrovna, Anna 264
Alexanyan, Vasily 11
Alfa 138
All Saints Church, Easton, Isle of Portland 11
All-Russian Automobile Alliance 39
Alloro restaurant, London 109
Allen, Paul 153
Alston and Bird 335, 336
Althorp, Northamptonshire 171
Alwaleed, Prince 203
Amsterdam, Robert 234, 242, 274
Andava 40, 78, 79
Annabel’s nightclub, London 109, 172
Apatit chemical company 231
APCO Worldwide 222, 223
Aria, Semyon 264
Aristotle 82
Politics 31
ARK 369
Arsenal Football Club 194, 348, 364
art market crash (1990-91) 190
Art Newspaper 190
Arthur Andersen accountancy firm 47
Ascot 166
Royal 169
Ascot, Berkshire 143
Asher, Abigail 190
Asprey jewellers 26
Assad family 358
Athan, Gina 98
Atkin, Tim 176
Atticus Capital 330, 332
Audit Chamber 160, 233
Aven, Petr 43, 49, 138, 193
Avital, Colette 247
Avtobank 157
AvtoVaz factory, Togliatti 37, 38, 39, 103, 342
Axis Ltd 227
Aylesford (estate agent) 20, 134
Aziz, Prince Sultan bin Abdul 153
Backstein, Joseph 185, 195
Bacon, Francis 187
Triptych 201
Badri see Patarkatsishvili, Arkady
Bahamas 219
Baikal 233
Bailey, Liam 140, 141, 367
Bakeham House, Wentworth Park, Surrey 110
Baker, Tatiana 135, 137
Baku, Azerbaijan 26
Bank Menatep
collapses in the 1998 financial crash 221
controls Yukos 5
Curtis and 5, 6, 94, 216
first use of word ‘oligarch’ in Russia 31
handles state money 47
a highly controversial Russian company 6
and ISC Global 237-8
money laundering allegations 214-15
set up by Khodorkovsky 46
success of 46-7
whistleblower 219-20
and Yukos 5, 48, 215, 218
Bank of Moscow 118
Barclays bank 40
Barker, Gregory 162-3
Barr, Graham 276
Barvikha Hills, Moscow 170
Basayev, Shamil 115
Basel Art Fair, Switzerland 189
Basic Element 325
Bassey, Dame Shirley 203
Battersea heliport, London 1, 137, 152, 318
Baturina, Yelena 169, 192, 358
BBC 30, 293, 297
Newsnight 258, 266, 298, 305
Question Time (BBC1) 259
Radio 4 296
Beauchamp Estates, Mayfair 131, 134, 354
Becharova, Galina 39
Beckett, Jonathan 352
Beechwood estate, Hampstead 358
Beijing 321
Belgrave Square, London 136, 327
Bell, Tim (now Lord) 50, 111, 114, 250, 256-61, 269, 276, 279, 296, 297, 298
Bell Pottinger 250, 278-9, 281, 297
Belova, Natalya 359
Benda, Alain 331
Berezovska, Anastasia 39
Berezovska, Ekaterina (Katya) 37, 39, 104, 105, 106, 112
Berezovska, Elizaveta 37, 39
Berezovska, Galina 110-11
Berezovsky, Artem 39
Berezovsky, Boris 66, 133, 151, 204, 323, 362
Aeroflot fraud case 77-80, 87
appearance 254
his assassination planned 288-9
at Curtis’s funeral 11, 12
attack on him (1994) 131
and the automobile industry 37-9
benefits from ‘loans for shares’ deal 35
birth (1946) 35
bitter enemy of Abramovich 15, 45, 315-17
brazen lifestyle 31
buys Clocher de la Garoupe 89
a client of Stephen Curtis 4, 6, 95, 235, 236
Confederation of Independent States 54
defends his activities 16, 60-61, 78-9, 80-81
dismissed from Security Council 54
and education 36, 165, 255
extensive business empire 39
extradition case 16, 103, 106, 260-63, 280
the ‘family’ 51
friendship with Lugovoi 306
friendship with Yeltsin 40
a fugitive from Russia 90-91
‘Grey Cardinal’ 31
at the height of his power 52-3
interest in airlines 39-40
and ISC Global 237
Jewish background 35-6
and Litvinenko 288-93, 296, 298, 299, 306, 309, 310
marriages 37, 39, 196
media empire 196, 275
meets Curtis 94
member of the Russian Academy of Sciences 36-7
new name (Platon Yelenin) 276-7
and Oligarkh 30
and ORT 40-41, 83, 85-6, 87, 92-3, 95-6
personality 15, 36, 254, 255
political asylum request 260-61
property purchases 110-13
and Putin 66, 67, 71-2, 73, 76, 81-2, 85-7, 90, 91-3, 108, 253-4, 256, 258, 259, 260, 261, 268, 271, 280, 281, 283, 284, 291, 292, 296, 298, 301, 306
relationship with Patarkatsishvili 83, 84, 277
St George’s Hill 144
search for social acceptance 113-14
and security 107-9, 111
severely restricted movements 276
and Sibneft 41, 44, 96-8, 99, 102, 104, 126
social life 109-10
SPVs 103-4
takes risks with his fortune 106-7
works to destabilise Russia 276, 280-81
and Zakayev 269
Berlin 22
Berlin, Isaiah 22
Berlin Wall, collapse of (1989) 70
Bermuda 18
Bernardoni-Belolipskaia, Vladlena 168
Berry Bros & Rudd wine merchant, St James’s, London 24
Beslan school hostage crisis 308
Bili SA 101
Billington, James H. 224
Birt, Lord 257
Blackhurst, Rob 225
Blair, Tony 225, 256, 283, 303, 330, 341, 346
Blanc, Raymond 162
Blavatnik, Leonid 112, 133, 134, 170, 203, 204
Blenheim Palace 279
Blohm & Voss 155
Bloom, Orlando 171
Bloomberg 363, 364, 367
Blunkett, David 262
Boateng, Ozwald 169
Boguslavsky, Leonid 36
Bolshoi Ballet 331
Bonham-Carter, Graham 321
Bonham-Carter, Helena 321
Bonhams fine art auctioneers 192
Boscombe, Dorset 3
Boubnova, Sophia 101
Boujis nightclub, London 204
Bournemouth Airport 2, 7, 9
Bournemouth Town Hall 9
Bow Street Magistrates Court 250, 261, 268
Bowack, John 139
Bowering, Professor Bill 250
Box Hill school, Mickleham, Surrey 166
BP 225, 245
Brackley and Towcester Advertiser 146-7
Bradley, Bill 224
Brando, Marlon 110
Branson, Sir Richard 133
Braynin, Felix 50
Brenton, Sir Anthony 283
Brezhnev, Leonid 37, 52
Britain
21st-century influx of Russians 23
arrival of middle-class, affluent Russians 13
Kremlin complaint about Britain’s Russophobia 281
a long-term haven for Russian exiles and dissidents 21-2
number of Russian residents in 22
refuses extradition attempts by Russian authorities 16
rules for ‘non-domiciles’ 18
Russian oil and gas supplies 303
British Airways 165, 257, 302, 338
British Army 107
British Embassy, Moscow 22
British Gas 58
British Museum, London 21
British Telecom 58
British Virgin Islands 19, 124, 157, 212, 219, 236, 291, 320
Broadlands, Ascot 278
Browder, Bill 47, 217, 218, 243, 246, 340-41
Hermitage Capital Management 209
Brown, Gordon 226, 303, 333, 334, 335, 360
Brown, Nigel 1, 6, 9-10, 238, 247, 248, 265
Brunei, Sultan of 133
BST Link 249
Buchanan, Andrew 141
Buck, Bruce 348
Buckingham Palace, London 358
Buckingham Suite apartment, Belgrave Square, London 112-13
Buckley, Tork 155
bugging 238-9, 264
Bukosky, Vladimir 288
Bullingdon drinking club, Oxford University 332, 334
Bullock, Janna 191
Burberry, New Bond Street, London 24
Burganov, Ranil 210, 211, 212, 248
Burgess 352
Burton, Ian 250
Busch, Gary 293, 309
Bush, George W. 224, 259
Bush, Laura 224
BusinessWeek 245
Buttrke prison 231
Byblos des Neiges, Courchevel 205
Cadogan Square, London 136
Café Pushkin, Moscow 330
Cameron, David 335
Campbell, Naomi 169, 170, 171, 189, 205
Candy, Christian 113
Candy and Candy 25, 107, 112, 113, 141, 348
Candyscape (yacht) 113
Cannes Film Festival 264
Cantinetta Antinori restaurant, Moscow 331
Cap d’Antibes 203, 264
Capital Group 169-70
Carlton Park Tower Hotel, London 99
Carlucci, Frank 224
Carlyle Group 224
Carnegie, Andrew 147
Caroline Terrace, Belgravia 138
Cartier 177, 369
Cartier International Day, Guards Polo Club, Windsor Great Park 168
Cash, William 16-17, 189, 192
Catherine the Great 225
Caves du Roy, Courchevel 205
Cayman Islands 18, 216
Central Bank 47, 166, 217, 363-4
Centre for Contemporary Culture (the Garage), Moscow 202
Centre for Scientific and Technical Youth 46
Chalker, Baroness 276
Champions League 235
Chanel, New Bond Street, London 95
Channel 4 News 297
Channel One 40, 50, 83, 85, 91-2
Channon, Henry ‘Chips’ 320, 321
Chaplin, Charlie 203
Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales 223
Charterhouse, near Godalming, Surrey 164
Château de la Croix, Cap d’Antibes 91, 129
Château de la Garoupe 89-90, 91
‘Château Rothschild’ 332-3
Chatham House, St James’s Square 258
Chechnya 76, 208, 259, 268, 269, 286, 293, 308
gangs 38
rebels 115, 268
Chechnya conflict 52-3
first Chechen war (1994-6) 53, 268
second Chechen war (1999-2009) 72-3, 81, 269, 292
Chelsea Football Club 15, 93, 125-6, 127, 137, 142, 152, 154, 156-7, 158, 160-63, 274, 315, 319, 348
Chelsea as prime location 139
Cherney, Anna 338
Cherney, Lev 57, 321-2, 323
Cherney, Mikhail (later Michael) 57, 58, 318-19, 321-9, 338-9, 342, 343
Chernobyl disaster 47
Chernysheva, Natalia 212-13, 248
Chester Square, Belgravia 128-9, 130, 136, 163, 201
Chevening, Kent 276
Chevron Texaco 245
Chime Communications 276
China, affluent Russians move to 22
Chinawhite nightclub, London 98, 234
Chinese government 229
Chloé 181
Chopard 178
Chouvaeva, Natasha 18
Christie’s auctioneers 24-5, 169, 187, 188, 190, 192, 366
Chrysler 328
Chubais, Anatoly 74-5
Chukotka, Siberia 159, 160, 232, 356
Churchill, Sir Winston 203, 274, 279
CIA 75, 108, 338
Cipriani restaurant, Mayfair 26, 176
‘Circuit’ 294
Citigroup 355
City AM newspaper 359
Cityline 104
Clanwilliam, John Meade, 7th Earl of 226
Claridge’s Hotel, Mayfair 24, 171
Clark, David 160, 282, 303
Clarke, Mr Justice Christopher 327, 328
Clegg, Nick 22
Clinton, Bill 334
Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire 178, 350
Clydesdale Bank 96, 100, 102
Cobham, Surrey 143
Cohen, Stephen F.: Failed Crusade 63
Coleman, John 147-8, 149
Collins, James 32
Collins, Tim 109
Collongues-Popova, Elena 219-20
Colony Club, Hertford Street, Mayfair 119
Commercial Court, London 317
Committee to Protect Journalists 271-2
communism collapse of (1991) 13, 32, 46, 273
Russian attitude to 49
Communist Party, backs Khodorkovsky 46
Confederation of Independent States 54
Connery, Sean 138
Conservative Party 58, 334
Constellation (ship) 229-30
Cook, Robin 160
Cooperative Insurance Society 341
Corbin, Arnaud 368
Corfe Holdings Ltd 236
Corker Binning 213
Cossacks 56, 171
Côte d’Azur 198, 203, 264
Courchevel ski resort, France 158, 181, 198, 204-7
Cowdray, Lord 236
Crown Prosecution Service 261
Crown Protection Services 351
CSKA Moscow 160
CSS 202
Curtis, Louise 11
Curtis, Sarah 10, 11, 12, 13
Curtis, Stephen Langford 89, 266
covert cooperation with NCIS 6, 7
covert custodian of Russian personal fortunes 3-4
death threats 6-7, 10
decision to co-operate with British police 5
early career 94
fatal helicopter crash follows threats 1-10
finds working for Russians exciting and challenging 93-4
and Fomichev 104, 105
funeral 10-13
guardian of Russian clients’ secrets 4
health 10
and ISC Global 237
and Khodorkovsky 4, 5, 6, 46, 93, 215, 234
meets Berezovsky 94
and Menatep 5, 6, 94, 216, 217, 237, 240
personal fortune 4-5, 236
personality 4, 10, 94, 95, 234
and security 237, 239, 240-41
sets up New World Value Fund Ltd 235
and Sibneft 98, 99
works for Berezovsky 4, 6, 95-6, 107, 110, 261, 262
and the Yukos curse 246
Curtis & Co. 94, 95, 235, 238, 240-41
Cyprus 213, 215, 216, 247, 321, 322
Daily Mail 346
Daiwa Bank 218
Daresbury, Lord 161
Darling, Alistair 301, 356
Dart, Kenneth 240
Dartmouth, Earl of 147
Davidson, Rod 11-12
Davis, Alan 9
Davis, Rick 336
Davos, Switzerland 49, 214
World Economic Forum 49, 275, 330
‘Davos Pact’ 49-50
de Klerk, F.W. 257, 276
de Kooning, Willem: Woman III 186
de Sancha, Antonia 257
de Saumarez family 350
de Waal, Thomas 288
Del Ponte, Carla 79
Deloitte Touche 137
Deng, Wendi 280
Dent-Brocklehurst, Molly 202
Derby, Earl of 161
Deripaska, Oleg 151, 157, 162, 165, 167, 256, 315, 342, 353
aluminium magnate 15, 55
appearance 55, 319
and Bob Dole 335-6
buys racehorses 356-7
and Cherney 318-19, 322-8, 339, 342, 343
Conservative Party donation issue 334
as a dollar billionaire 363
enemies 326
entry problems to United States 16, 328-9, 335, 336, 337
and the ‘family’ 56
friendship with Abramovich 55, 319
global business empire 16
Jewish background and Cossack heritage 56
losses 364
and Magna 328, 339, 364
marriage 56
and Nat Rothschild 329-30
personality 55, 319
a post-Soviet corporate raider 55
property purchaser 145, 320-21
and Putin 15, 66, 343
ruthless young pretender 15, 55
Deripaska, Polina 165, 181, 320
Devonshire, Duke of 114
Diana, Princess of Wales 133, 171
Dickens, Charles 196
Dinamo Tbilisi Football Club 277
Disdale, Terence 153, 154, 351-2
Doig, Peter: White Canoe 185-6, 193
Dolce & Gabbana 315
Dole, Bob 335-6
Dom-2 (reality TV programme) 189
Donde, Daniel Ermes 201
Dorchester Hotel, London 26, 223, 322, 323
Doronin, Vladimir 169-70
Downside Manor, Leatherhead, Surrey 277-8, 279
Draycott House, off Sloane Square 339
Dresner-Wickers 50
Dubai 99, 142, 198
Dubov, Yuli 267-8, 279
Bolshaya Paika (The Lion’s Share) 30, 267
The Lesser Evil 267-8
Ducasse, Alain 203
Dulwich College 166
Dyachenko, Boris 165
Dyachenko, Tatyana (Tanya) 50, 52, 145, 162, 165, 204
Dzerzhinsky, Felix 173
East End, London 21, 190
Eastern Bloc, collapse of (late 1980s) 22
Eastern Oil Company 210
Easton, Isle of Portland 11, 12
Easton Neston, neat Towcester 146
Eaton Square, London 136, 137, 140-41
Ecclestone, Bernie 162
Eclipse (yacht) 155-6
Economic and Trade Ministry 61
Economist, The 221
Ecstasea (yacht) 154
Ekho Moskvy radio station 25, 75, 271, 280
Elizabeth II, Queen 142
Elliott Hotel, Gibraltar 235
Ellison, Larry 153
Enron scandal 337
Esher, Surrey 143
Eurocement 157
Eurocement Holding AG 157
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) 126, 127, 128
European Champions League 154
European Union 330, 331, 332
Evans, Chris 111, 112
Evans, Jonathan 270
Evening Standard 132, 346, 365
Evraz 157, 363
Exclusive London 174-5
ExxonMobil 230, 245
Fabergé 192
Falileyev, Judge Igor 357
‘family, the’ 51-2, 56
Farnborough Airport 152
Farouk, King of Egypt 129
Fatherland All-Russia Party 73
Fayed, Camilla 181
FBI 359
Federal Law N 153-F3 310-11
Feldman, Andrew 334
Felshtinsky, Yuri 292
Fennell, Theo (jewellers) 26
Fezan Ltd 236
Fiat 38
financial crash (1998) 218, 221
Financial Dynamics 256
Financial Times 63, 131, 236, 275, 323, 339
Finans business magazine 55, 363
Finsbury 256
Firebird Fund 80
first Gulf War 130, 131
Fitasc Sporting British clay pigeon shooting Grand Prix 148
Fitzgerald, Edward, QC 213
Fleming, Roddie 161
Florida International University 61
Fomichev, Katya 104-5, 181
Fomichev, Ruslan 104-5, 181
Forbes magazine 24, 77, 363
Forbes Russia 246, 272, 273
Ford, Tom 179
Foreign Office 7, 241, 261, 270, 282, 303, 307
Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) 225
Fortnum & Mason 24
Forus 40, 78, 79, 80
Forward Media Group 320
Fox, James 125
Fox and Gibbons 94
Foxwell, Gavin 8
France, affluent Russians move to 22
Francis I, King of France 149
Fraud Squad 261
Fredriksen, John 128, 132
Freeland, Chrystia 63
French Foreign Legion 108
French Special Forces 108
Freud, Lucian: Benefits Supervisor Sleeping 201
Fridman, Mikhail 49
Friedman, Thomas 61-2
Frieze Fair 188, 192
Frontline (American news programme) 63, 76
Frontline Club, London 36
FSB (Federal Security Service) 53, 62, 71, 74, 86, 103, 106, 115, 230, 231, 262, 267, 275, 281, 285, 286, 287, 289-90, 292, 293, 296, 305-9, 312, 313, 338
Fulham Football Club 163
Fyning Hill, Rogate, West Sussex 124, 130, 152, 161, 163, 200, 201, 353
Gagosian, Larry 202
Gallitzin, Prince Gregory 167
Garda Worldwide 130
GAZ 157
Gazprom 76, 157, 173, 233, 270-71, 317, 341, 362
Geffen, David 194
Geldof, Bob 172
General Motors 39, 244, 325
George V, King 114
Giacometti, Alberto 201
Gibraltar 19, 100, 104, 215, 216, 235, 236, 241
Gibraltar Criminal Intelligence Agency 241
Gillford, Lord (‘Paddy’) 226-7
Glencore 340
global economic crisis (2008) 17
Global Leadership Foundation (GLF) 275-6
Global Options Group Inc 335, 336
Glushkov, Nikolai 92, 96, 102-3, 279
Goldfarb, Alex 65, 80, 82-3, 275, 281, 291, 297, 298, 337
Goldfarb, Alex with Litivinenko, Marina: Death of a Dissident 307
Goldsmith, Sir James 55
Goldsmith, Lord (Peter) 279
Golubev, Yuri 245
Goodwin, James 334
Gorbachev, Mikhail 32, 35, 40, 171, 173, 199, 312
Gorbunova, Yelena 72, 110, 111, 113, 114
GPW Ltd 351
Grand Bleu, Le (yacht) 153, 154, 155, 203
Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat 203-4
Grayson, Patrick 351
Gref, German 330
Greig, Geordie 171, 172, 345-6, 365
Grey Advertising 222
Grigoriev, Boris Dmitrievich: Faces of Russia 194
Group Menatep Ltd (GML) 215-16, 227, 235, 236
Group of Seven 49
GRU 270, 287
GSS Global 248
Gstaad, Switzerland 19
Guardian 195, 268, 280, 281, 369
Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas, Moscow 43
Gucci 179
Guernsey 236
Guinness, Lady Honor 320-21
Gulf States 99
Gusinsky, Vladimir 49, 75-6, 82, 83, 86, 132, 196, 280
Gutseriyev, Mikhail 165, 360-62
Gyunel 169
Hague, Ian 80
Hakkasan restaurant, London 176
Hamnett, Professor Chris 353
Hampton Court Palace 171
Hamstone House, St George’s Hill, Weybridge 145
Hannant, Paul 8
Hanson, Lord 226
Hanson Plc 226
Harding, James 17
Harewood estate, near Windsor 142, 203
Harrods department store, London 26, 123, 125, 137, 163, 174
Harrods Estates 135
Harrogate Ladies’ College 166
Harrow School 165
Harry’s Bar restaurant, South Audley Street, London 101, 109
Hartlands 145-6
Harvard University-Dow Jones US-Russian Investment Symposium 328
Harvey, David 17-18
Harvey Nichols department store, London 174, 180
Fifth Floor Restaurant 26
Hascombe Court, near Godalming, Surrey 111-12
Haslam, Nicholas 105, 136
Hawksmoor, Nicholas 146
Hazlitt, William 191
Health Protection Agency 298, 300
Heath Lodge, Iver, Buckinghamshire 110
Heath, Sir Edward 304
Hello! magazine 320
Henry, Professor John 299
Hermès shop, Knightsbridge 315, 316
Hermitage Capital Management 47, 217, 246
Hermitage Fund 341
Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House 170
Hersham, Gary 131-2, 134-5
Herzliya Pituach, Israel 247
Hesketh, Lord 146
Hesketh, Sophia 200
Hewlett, Jonathan 141
Heywood, Tim 153
Hiddink, Guus 161
High Court 326, 327, 341, 343
High Life Developments 144
Highgate Cemetery, north London 54, 298
Highland Gold 161
Hilton Hotel, Park Lane 304, 354
Hirst, Damien 144, 187, 202
Hirst, Natalie 136, 137, 141
Hitler, Adolf 347
Hochtief 364
Holcim Ltd 157
Holmes, Major John 294
Holtan, Kirsty 2
Home Office 103, 280, 281, 360, 361
Border and Immigration Branch Agency 281
Hong Kong 142
Hotel Baltschug, Moscow 77
Hôtel de Vendôme, Paris 204
Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Ros, Antibes 129
House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee 282
House of Lords 225, 250
Houston, Whitney 202
H.R. Owen dealership 175
Hudson, Professor Michael 60, 243-4, 245-6
Hugh House, Eaton Square, London 128
Hummer automotive brand 325
Hunter, Keith 109, 238, 248
Hurd, Lord 350
Hussein, King of Jordan 124
Hutchins, Chris 29, 159, 200
Ian Greer Associates 226
Ibiza 204, 236
Ignatief, Mikhail 62-3
Ilim Pulp 325, 326
Immigration Service Union 24
Independent 243, 341
Independent Schools Information Service (ISIS) 164
Ingosstrakh 157
Institute of Control Sciences 36
Interior Ministry (Russia) 233
International Foundation for Civil Liberties 274-5
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 18, 32, 60, 61, 220
International Red Cross 105, 106
International Yacht Club of Antibes 122
Interpol 91, 102
Interros 226
ISC Global Ltd 1, 95, 237-8, 239, 240, 248, 265, 267
Island Spice Overseas Ltd 236
Isle of Man 132, 213, 216, 217, 219
Israeli security workers 239
Itchen Trust 100, 104, 105, 106
Ivanishvili, Boris 193
Ivanishvili, Gher 193-4
Ivanov, Valery 271
Ivanov, Yevgeny 125
Izvestiya 298
Jacobs, Marc 181
Jagger, Mick 125
Jekyll, Gertrude 111
Jenkins, Eric 6, 7
Jersey 19, 340
John, Sir Elton 147, 171, 181
John Smith Memorial Fund 226
Jones, Tom 144
Jumean, Eyhab 98, 99
Jurby Lake 217
Kadannikov, Vladimir 37
Kalbfell, Alan 241
Kalugin, General Oleg 70, 310, 337
Kapur, Ajay 355
Karachayevo-Cherkessia 81
Kasparov, Garry 273, 281
Kay, Josef 100-101
Kazakhstan 135
Keeler, Christine 125
Kensington and Chelsea 347, 354, 355, 356
Kensington Palace 167-8, 227, 250
Kensington Palace Gardens, London 133-4
Kenwood, St George’s Hill, Weybridge 143
KGB 53, 295
and Aeroflot 79
apparatchiks 244
defectors 22
Lebedev in 172
and Litvinenko 286, 288, 312, 338
money laundering 214-15
multi-millionaire former KGB officials 179
and Putin 69-70, 74, 173
reformed into three separate groups 287
renamed FSB 62
restoration of its power 312
torture of political prisoners 92
and Usmanov 195
and Yeltsin 40
Khakassia, Siberia 320
Khodorkovska, Elena 45
Khodorkovska, Inna 46
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail (‘Misha’) Borisovich 212, 362
appearance 214
arrested and imprisonment 5, 157, 231-2, 234, 236, 240, 241, 246, 259, 357
Bank Menatep 46, 214-15
and Curtis 4, 5, 6, 93, 215, 216
and the ‘Davos Pact’ 49
early life 45
education 45-6
efforts to improve his corporate image 16, 220-27
founds his own bank 45
on his chequered business past 220-21
an intellectual 15
Jewish background 45, 46
marriages 46, 196
and the mass voucher scheme 33
offshore companies and accounts 214
personality 45, 214
and Putin 5, 66, 209, 220, 226, 228-9, 244, 246, 265-6
and Rockefeller 59
on Russian law 63
Russia’s wealthiest businessman 5, 33
sets up Centre for Scientific and Technical Youth 46
in a Siberian jail 15, 134, 241, 242
trial 242
and Yukos 48, 59, 209, 215, 218, 220, 221, 243
Khodorkovsky, Pavlik 46
Khodorkovsky Foundation 227
Khromchenko, Evelina 182-3
Kidd, Jemma 171
Kiev 321
Kilmarsh Ltd 237
King, Lord 257
King’s College London 182, 353
Kipling, Rudyard 11
Kirienko, Sergei 71
Kissinger, Dr Henry 223, 224
Klaxons, The 202
Klebnikov, Paul 77, 246, 272 Godfather of the Kremlin 272
Klimt, Gustav 201
Klosters, Switzerland 332
Knight Frank (estate agent) 20, 135, 139, 140, 141, 143, 147, 359, 367, 368
Knightsbridge, London 19
Knowles, Julian, QC 250
Kokotovic, Alexandra 203
Kolesnikov, Vladimir 231
Kolmogorov, Vasily 90
Kolomenskaya, Oksana 199
Kolushev, Sergei 168
Komisar, Lucy 224
Kommersant newspaper 83, 195, 260, 277, 360
Komsomol (Young Communist League) 46, 283
Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper 275
Konstantin Palace, near St Petersburg 194
Koons, Jeff 202
Korzhakov, General Aleksandr 40, 52, 84
Kosinski, Jerzy: Being There 73
Kovalev, Nikolai 71
Kovtun, Dmitri 285, 301, 302, 306
Krasnodar, south-western Russia 56
Krasnokamensk, Siberia 241
Kraznoyarsk hydroelectric plant 157
Kremlin, Moscow and Abramovich 126, 159, 232, 233
authoritarianism of 173
Berezovsky’s dominating influence in 31, 39-40, 92, 290
and Khodorkovsky 228, 230
and Litvinenko 308, 310
and mass voucher scheme 33
state bail-outs 364
Kroll Security International 130
Kryshtanovskaya, Olga 312, 313
Kudriavev, Damian 105-6
Kursk disaster 85, 86, 92
Kvantrishvili, Otari 84
Lada car 37-8
Lady in Blue (yacht) 170
Lamont, Lord 350
Lampard, Frank 154
Lanesborough Hotel, London 26, 110, 119, 323, 325
Langton, Andrew 134
Langton, David 349
Lantos, Tom 230
Lanvin 181
Laughland, John 68
Lavrov, Sergei 20
Lawson, Nigella 138
Lazards 332
Lazio, S.S. 154
Le Gavroche restaurant, Mayfair 26, 176
Lebedev, Alexander 122-3, 171, 172-4, 202, 302, 345, 346, 365
Lebedev, Platon 210, 230, 234, 237, 242, 246, 357
Lebedev, Evgeny 172, 181
Ledbury Research Agency 182
Lefortovo jail, Moscow 92, 96, 290
Lehman Brothers 362
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 21, 51, 68
Lenin Komsomol Prize 36
Lenina, Lena: Multimillionaires 196-7
Leningrad State University 69, 70
Lennon, John 143-4
Leopold II, King of Belgium 203
Leopold III, King of Belgium 129
Lesin, Mikhail 87
Leviev, Lev 177-8
Leyland DAF 334
Liberal Democratic Party 305
Liberal Russia 274
Library of Congress, Washington, DC 223, 224
Liechtenstein 321
Limarov, Yevgeny 310
Linley, Viscount 170-71
Lisin, Vladimir 148
Listyev, Vladislav 85
Littlejohn, Richard 147
Litvinenko, Alexander 27-8, 102, 109, 267, 269, 282, 285-313, 360
The Gang from Lubyanka 292-3
Litvinenko, Alexander and Felshtinsky, Yuri: Blowing Up Russia 292
Litvinenko, Anatoly 291
Litvinenko, Marina 286, 287-8, 291, 307
Litvinenko, Nina 287
Litvinenko, Walter 287
Livingstone, Ken 347
Lloyd-Webber, Lord 181
‘loans for shares’ scheme 35, 41, 48-9, 215, 231
Lockheed Martin 94
LogoVaz 37-9, 53, 84, 91, 103, 268
London art auctions 189-90
attracts the extravagantly rich 16
‘bustling and busy’ 19-20
chosen as a refuge by Berezovsky 91
cost of property per square foot 141
financial capital of the world 17
legal sanctuary and a fair due process of law 16
‘Moscow-on-Thames’ 14
the most expensive residential market 141-2
as a ‘murky outpost of Moscow’ 27
proximity to Moscow 17, 132
Russian addiction to high living the British way 24-5
Russian desire to move to 13
Russian intelligence officers in 269-70
Russian purchase of properties in 20, 54-5, 131-42, 182
size of Russian community in London 14
tax-avoidance industry 17, 18
London Courier 188
London and Russia Holdings plc 329
London School of Economics 20, 329
Russian Society 21
London Stock Exchange 148, 221, 340, 350
Lopez, Jennifer 203
Lowndes Square, London 124-5, 129, 130, 132, 136-7, 356
Luciano’s restaurant, St James’s 162
Lugovoi, Andrei 102, 285, 294, 295-6, 298, 301, 303, 305-6, 307
Lukashenko, President 257
Lukoil 162
Lürssen 321
Lutton Invest and Finance 212
Lutyens, Edwin 111
Luxembourg 219
Luzhkov, Yuri 160, 169, 192
Lysova, Olga 42-3
Lyubertsy 85
Maar, Dora 186
McCain, Senator John 336, 337
McCartney, Stella 133
Macdonald, Julien 180
Macgregor, Ian 257
Machiavelli, Niccòlo 51
Macmillan, Harold 125
Macpherson, Elle 171
McQueen, Alexander 181
Madonna 144, 169
Magna International 328, 336-7, 339, 364
Maidment, Wing Commander 3
Major, John 24
Malandina, Irina 43
Malashenko, Igor 52
Malt, Jack 8
Malta 210
Manchester United FC 235
Mandelson, Peter 114, 330-31, 332, 334-5
Mandelstam, Osip 82
Mangold, Tom 296
Mann, John 256, 364
Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Le, Oxfordshire 162
Manokhina, Valerie 118, 123, 124, 137, 151, 155, 183
Manoukian, Bob 203
‘Marching Together’(a pro-Putin group) 270
Margaret, HRH Princess 170
Markevich, Eduard 271
Markov, Sergei 62, 304
Marks & Spencer 34, 177
Mark’s Club, Mayfair 250
Marlborough, 11th Duke of 279
Marshall Plan for Russia 59
Marx, Groucho 260
Marx, Karl 54-5, 74
Mashkov, Vladimir 30
Maskhadov, Aslan 268
Maudi Manufacturing 84
Max, Leon 146-7
Max Studio shops 146
Maxie’s basement nightclub, Knightsbridge 120
Maxim 189
Mayor’s Office, City Hall, London 347
Media-Most 75, 76
Medvedev, Dmitri 169, 273, 317, 325, 357, 360, 362
Mellor, David 257
Melnichenko, Andrei 113, 142, 202, 203
Melnikov, Konstantin 202
Melrose House, Savile Row, London 107
Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, Moscow 45
Menshikov, Aleksandr 65
Menzies, George 298
Merabishvili, Vano 278
Mercedes-Benz 25, 37, 38
Metropolitan Police 152, 213
MI5 107, 108, 262, 305
MI6 305
Michael, George 172
Michael of Kent, Prince 114-15, 171, 224, 227, 250
Michael of Kent, Princess 171, 369
Middlesex Steel 226
Midgley, Dominic 29
Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square 285, 286, 297, 302, 304
Millfield School, Somerset 165
Millhouse Capital 130, 142, 157
Ministry of Fuel and Energy (Russia) 220
Minnelli, Liza 167
Mirren, Dame Helen 22
Mittal, Lakshmi 122, 133
Modhassan, Sheikh 153
Mohammed, Sheik 99
Monaco 142
Monet, Claude 186
Montgrandi, René 158
Morgan, J.P. 58-9
Moscow
apartment bombings (1999) 72, 268, 275, 281, 292, 307, 308
disadvantages of living in 19
Westernization 119
Moscow Chamber of Commerce 242
Moscow Communist Party: Youth League 120
Moscow Economic School 128
Moscow Komsomolets 120
Moscow School of Political Studies 231
Moscow State University 36
Moscow Times 240, 301
Mosimann, Anton 99
Moskovsky Novosti 244
Moss, Kate 172
Mossad 239
Most nightclub, The, Moscow 366
Moylan, Councillor Daniel 347
Muchinskaya, Aliona 19-20, 120-21, 167, 178, 180
Murdoch, Elizabeth 333
Murdoch, Rupert 196, 257, 279-80
Murphy, Gerald 89
Napoleon Bonaparte 253
Nashi (‘Our People’) 283
National Australia Group 102
National Book Festival 224
National Criminal
Intelligence Service (NCIS, Scotland Yard, Curtis cooperates with 6, 7)
National Gallery, London 21
National Reserve Bank 173
National Security Council (Russia) 52, 54, 71
National Security Council (US) 64
Neilson, Annabelle 332
Nekrassov, Alexander 117, 119, 125, 177
Nemtsov, Boris 64
Netherlands Antilles 102
Nevzlin, Leonid 46, 209, 210, 229, 238, 247-8, 265, 266, 267, 305
New Delhi 321
New Labour 225, 226
‘New Russians’ 23, 74, 119
New Scotland Yard 261
New Style magazine 14, 174
New World Value Fund Ltd 235
New York
becomes less attractive to the world’s business rich 17
cost of property per square foot 142
failure to compete in pursuit of Russian capital 28
New York Stock Exchange 17, 221
New York Times 21, 47, 61, 115, 186, 222, 275, 287, 323, 326, 352, 369
New Yorker 29-30
Newson, Marc 202
Newsweek 352
Nezavisimaya Gazeta 83
NFK 44, 48
Nicholas II, Tsar 108, 114-15
Nicklaus, Jack 320
Nicolson, Harold 321
Ninth Wave 307
Nobu restaurant, Park Lane 26, 162
Norilsk Nickel 66, 206, 364
Northern Oil Company 228
Nosova, Natalia 110
Novaya Gazeta newspaper 173, 242, 270, 292, 308, 312
Novolipetsk 148
Novy Reft newspaper 271
Noyabrskneftegas Geophysica 44
NTV 75, 271
Number One Yacht Club 120
Oakley Hall prep school, Cirencester, Gloucestershire 164
Ocean Sky 349
Officiel, L’ magazine 183
Ogorodnikova, Tatyana: A Marriage Contract 197
OK! magazine (Russian edition) 201
Old Rectory, The, Chelsea 128, 132
Old Swan House, Chelsea Embankment 128
Old Vic Theatre, London 21
oligarchs
acquisition of Russia’s state-owned natural resources 14
advantages of London to 15
in ancient Greece 31
bargain with Yeltsin 49-51, 66
bitter personal feuds 27
blamed for bankrupting the Russian economy 71
and British strategy of benign tolerance 28
the butt of political satire 274
effect on London of oligarchs’arrival 15
enemies of 73-5, 242-3
keen on a British education 165
and Putin 64, 65-7, 73-87, 121, 125, 133, 232
spending sprees 24-7
term first used 31
Oligarkh (film) 29-30, 267, 277
Olympia (yacht) 154
Omsk, Siberia 43
Omsknefteproduckt 44
Onassis, Aristotle 129
Open Russia Foundation 222, 223, 224, 227
Open Society Foundation 222
Open World academic
exchange programme 224
‘Operation Come to Me’ 266-7
‘Operation Fab’ 265-6, 267
Operation Maltesa I 210-12, 213
Operation Maltesa II 212-13
Operation Olive Grove 213
‘Orange Revolution’ (Ukraine) 276, 281
Organizatsiya see Russian mafia
Ornellaia estate and vineyard, Tuscany 129
Orsk-Khalilovsky Metal Combine 157
ORT 40-41, 44, 53-4, 82, 85-7, 91-3, 95-6, 99, 100, 102, 271, 306
ORT-Videos 101
Orwell, George 196
Osborne, Frances 333
Osborne, George 333-5
O’Sullivan, David 331n
Other Russia, The 273, 281
Ottawa 207
Owen, Lord 226, 350
Oxford Russia Fund 227
Oxford University Russian Society 258, 276
Packer, Kerry 124
Panama 219
Panteleimonov, Nikolai 42
Paper nightclub, London 202
Paris
19th-century influx of Russians 23
Russian attitude to 19
Parlour, Karen 348
Parlour, Ray 348
Partridge Fine Arts, New Bond Street 369
Patarkatsishvili, Arkady ‘Badri’ 41, 44, 323
charged with embezzlement 103
a client of Curtis 235, 236
early career 84
flees Russia to Georgia 102
involvement in Georgian politics 84, 277, 278
Jewish Georgian background 83
and Josef Kay 100-101
and LogoVaz 84
meeting with Berezovsky and Abramovich 91-3
and ORT 83, 85, 86-7, 96
personality 83
plans a coup d’état 278
presidential candidate (2007) 278
property purchases 277-8
relationship with Berezovsky 83, 84, 277
and Sibneft 97, 99, 126
Patrushev, Nikolai 86, 115
Pavlov-Andreevich, Fedor 191
Pazik, Kristin 162
Pearson, Hon. Charles 236
Pegu Club, Manhattan 352
Pelorus (yacht) 130, 153-4, 201, 351
Pennsylvania Castle, Isle of Portland, Dorset 2, 5, 9, 11, 13, 236
Pentlands, St George’s Hill, Weybridge 110
perestroika 35, 37, 42, 46, 118
Performance (film) 125
Peskov, Dmitri 300
Peter the Great 65, 193
Pettit, Jim 338
Picasso, Pablo 203-4
Dora au Chat 186, 193
Pichugin, Alexei 230
Pikulenko, Alexander 25
Pinchuk, Viktor 358
Pine Bar see Millennium Hotel
Pinochet, General 82, 257
Piotrovsky, Dr Mikhail 223
Platinum Entertainment Services 162
Plato: The Republic 31
Plisetskaya, Maya 170
Politkovskaya, Anna 173, 205, 207-8, 271, 308, 360
Pollock, Jackson 186
polonium-210 poisoning 27-8, 299, 302, 306, 310
Poltimore, Lord (Mark) 193, 350
Poppy, Richard 9
Pora (It Is Time) 360
Porter, Cole 89
Porter, Matthew 241
Portland Hospital, London 123
Portman, Justin 169
Potanin, Vladimir 35, 49, 63-4, 66, 206, 226, 243, 275
Powell, Lady Carla 113-14
Powell, Lord 113, 350
Prada 181
Pravda 189
Premiair 349
Price, Sarah 3, 8
PricewaterhouseCoopers 80
Primakov, Yevgeny 71, 72, 73, 77
Prime Purchase 136, 141
Prodi, Romano 293
Profumo, John 125
Progress, Le (newspaper) 207
Project X (yacht) 264-5
Prokhorov, Mikhail 206-7, 366
Prospect magazine 355
Public Policy Partnership 226
Pugachev, Sergei 170
Purchase, Ken 282
Putin, Maria 68
Putin, Vladimir 134, 169, 170, 200, 202, 225, 358
aims to modernize Russia, not democratize it 82, 271
appearance 68
appointed President 73, 82, 274
appointed Prime Minister 72
and Berezovsky 66, 67, 71-2, 73, 76, 85-7, 90, 91-3, 108, 253-4, 256, 258-61, 265-6, 268, 271, 280, 281, 283, 284, 291, 292, 296, 298, 301, 306, 357
director of FSB 71, 74, 289
early life 68-9
education 68-9
First Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg 70
first Presidential Decree 56
and Gutseriyev 361-2
in the KGB 69-70
and Khodorkovsky 5, 66, 209, 220, 226, 228-9, 244, 246
Kursk disaster 85
and Litvinenko 289-93, 297, 300, 307, 308
meeting with Berezovsky and Abramovich 91-3
and the oligarchs 64, 65-7, 73-87, 121, 125, 133, 232
and opposition parties 273
and ORT 96
personality 67-8, 69, 70
purge by 65-87
relationship with Abramovich 159, 163
relationship with Deripaska 15
response to Moscow apartment bombings 72-3
and Rozhetskin 359
Safronov’s portrait 148-9
‘sambo’ (judo/wrestling) practitioner 69, 87
and Usmanov 195
Putin, Vladimir, Snr 68
Qatar 311
Qatar, Emir of 358
Queen K (yacht) 321, 333
Quintessentially 350-51, 368-9
Radford, Dennis 7, 9
Radford, Captain Max 2-3, 7, 8, 9
Radio Free Europe 281
RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine, Henlow, Bedfordshire 3
Ragozhina, Elena 174-5, 177
Raisa Gorbachev Foundation 171
Rausing, Hans 132
Rawlinson, John 164, 165-6
Reading, Marquess of 114
Reagan, Ronald 224, 276
Real Madrid FC 235
Red Army 42, 287
‘red directors’ 34, 54-5, 62, 64
Red Square PR company 121, 167, 180
Redgrave, Vanessa 269, 270
Reform Club, London 113, 258
Reguly, Eric 319
Reuben, David and Simon 322, 323
Reuter, Baron de 133
Revolutionary Congresses 21
Richard, Cliff 144
Risc Management 109, 248
Ritchie, Guy 144, 169
River Café, Hammersmith 162
‘robber barons’ 58-9
Roberts, W. (Hatton Garden jeweller) 94
Robertson, Lord, of Port Ellen 350
Robski, Oksana and Sobchak, Ksenia: Married to a Millionaire 196
Rockefeller, John D. 58-9
Rocks PR company 169
Roedean 166
Roeg, Nicholas 125
Roka tearoom and restaurant, Charlotte Street, London 26
Rokni, Niki 349
‘Rose Revolution’ (Georgia, 2003) 277
Rose, Stuart 177
Rosneft 228, 229, 233, 341
Rostropovich, Mstislav 194
Rothermere, Viscount 138, 365
Rothschild, Lord Jacob 162, 167, 223-4, 225, 329, 332, 336, 357
Rothschild, Mayer 333
Rothschild, Nat 167, 329-36, 336, 357
Rothschild family 133, 167, 329, 332, 333
Royal Berkshire Polo Club 168
Royal Family 147, 170
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 170, 331
Royal United Services Institute 109, 258
Rozhetskin, Leonid 359
Rublevskoye Highway 47
Rublyovka 185
Ruiz, Cristina 190
Rules restaurant, Covent Garden, London 24
Runicom SA 127
Rusal 91, 157, 316, 323, 324, 325, 328, 329, 331, 340, 343
Rushdie, Sir Salman 171
Russia
accumulated wealth secreted abroad 19
banking system’s lack of liquidity 32
bankruptcy (1998) 54, 214
capital flight 61-2
consumer boom at the millennium 179
crime, political uncertainty, and economic turbulence 14
easing of restrictions on private enterprise 23
from political dictatorship to power-wielding elite 31
judiciary 16
‘loans for shares’ scheme 35, 41
male life expectancy 208
mass voucher scheme 32-4
oil, gas and mineral resources 27
ownership concentration 18-19
privatization 18, 23, 32-3, 44, 61, 62, 63-4
scramble to build a Western-style market economy 15-16
Russia Foundation 160
Russian Academy of Sciences 36-7
Russian Communist Party 273
Russian community in London
reasons for coming to Britain 14, 15
size of 14
transcontinental commuters 14
Russian Economic Forum 168, 301, 347
Russian Embassy, Kensington Palace Gardens 259, 291
Russian Federation 53, 54, 227, 270
Russian Federation Council 53
Russian football federation 160-61
Russian mafia Berezovsky denies any mafia connection 38, 39
and British public schools 164
death of Listyev 85
Deripaska in conflict with 57-8
and Lebedev 174
Russian Revolution (1917) 22
Russian stock market 363
Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs 67
Russian Winter Festival 168
Russneft 165, 361, 362
Saakashvili, Mikheil 277, 278
Saatchi, Charles 138
Saatchi & Saatchi 257
Sachs, Jeffrey 59-60
Safin, Marat 200
Safin, Ralif 162, 167
Safina, Alsou 167, 181-2
Safra, Lily 128, 147
Safronov, Nikas 148-9
St Antony’s College, Oxford 227
St Barts (St Barthélemy) 19, 43, 129, 181, 332
St George’s Hill, Weybridge, Surrey 20, 143-5, 321
St Peter’s school, York 166
St Petersburg Chekists 292
St Tropez 181, 204, 219
Sake No Hana restaurant, St James’s 172
Saltykov, Boris 227
Samara region 103
Sarbanes-Oxley Act 17
Sardinia 185, 321
Sarkisyan, Arkady 329
SAS 130
Saudi royal family 131, 257
Saunders, Audrey 352
Savills (estate agent) 20, 54, 134, 140-41, 367-8
Sayanogorsky aluminium plant, republic of Khakassia 57, 58, 322, 323, 324
Sberbank 96
SBS-Agro 126-7
Schekochikhin, Yuri 308
Schillings 348
Schnabel, Julian 105
Scotland Yard 108-9, 296, 301, 302, 304, 305
Serota, Sir Nicholas 202
Serpentine Gallery 170
Service, Professor Robert 28
Seven Sisters Church, Holloway, north London 21
Seventeen Moments of Spring (film) 69
Sevodny newspaper 75
Seychelles 219
Shanghai, China 22
Sharon, Ariel 247
Shell 245
Shepherd, Sir John 276
Shevardnadze, Eduard 277
Shevchenko, Andriy 162
Shlyaifstein, Yuri 138
Shrubland Park, Suffolk 350
Shuppe, Yegor 104
Shvets, Major Yuri 295, 296
Shvidler, Evgeny 126, 137-8, 145, 151, 154, 162, 233
Sibal (Siberian Aluminium) 323, 325
Siberia 21, 55, 159, 170, 241, 343
Sibneft (Siberian Oil) 41, 44, 48, 77, 91, 96-7, 99, 102, 104, 115, 126, 137, 142, 157,160, 162, 233, 244-5, 273, 316-17, 323
Sidelnikov, Andrei 360
Siemens’ ‘Top-Sec’ S35
mobile phones 107
Silaev, Ivan 47
siloviki 74, 312, 313
Singapore 18
Sirenko, Olga 19
Sixsmith, Martin 293, 298-9, 311
The Litvinenko File 298-9, 311
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 348
Skibo Castle, Sutherland 147
Skidelsky, Lord 226, 231, 234
Skipp, Mark 130
Skuratov, Yuri 53-4, 77
Slavic states 22
Slesareva, Elizaveta 166
SLP Engineering 249
Smith, Anthony 227
Smith, Baroness 225
Smith, John, QC 225
Smolensky, Alexander 49
Snob magazine 366
Snowdon, Lord 170, 224
Soames, Nicholas 147
Sobchak, Anatoly 70, 189
Sobchak, Ksenia 189, 196
Social Democratic Congress (1907) 21
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners 17
Sodbiznesbank 166
Somerset House, London 222, 224, 225
Sophie’s Choice (yacht) 127, 153
Soros, George 49, 59, 80, 222, 275, 341
Sotheby’s auctioneers 24-5, 185-8, 190-94, 202, 350, 366
Sotogrande, southern Spain 76
Southern Counties shooting grounds, Dorset 148
Soviet secret police 173
Soviet Union, collapse of 25, 43, 84, 173
Spaso House, Moscow 230
Speaker’s Corner, London 21
Spear’s Wealth Management Survey 16, 189, 339, 352, 366
Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) 103-4
Spectator 173
Spencer House, St James’s Place 167, 336
Spencer family 171
Stalin, Joseph 25, 54, 68, 75, 82, 282, 296, 309
Standard Investment 218
Starkova, Marina 180, 182
Starr, Ringo 144
Stasi 69
State of Art magazine 191-2
State Committee on Science and Technology 37
State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg 225
Stepashin, Sergei 72, 79
Stewart, Margarita 193
Stewart, Rod 202
Stone, Sharon 168
Stoppard, Tom 173
Strauss, Robert 32
Straw, Jack 261, 280
Stream (yacht) 127, 153
Stringfellows nightclub 234
Stuttgart 28
Sual 134, 340, 343
Sumosan Japanese restaurant, London 109
Sunday Times 157, 258, 334
Sunday Times Rich List 126, 134, 362
Sunninghill Park 142
Sunter, Marianne 166
Surbiton, Surrey 22
Sussurro (yacht) 154
SVR 269, 287
Svyazinvest 275
Switzerland 18, 19, 72, 79, 219, 263, 325
Sykes, Eric 144
Syktyvkar, Komi republic, Siberia 41
Syon House, Isleworth 167
Talbott, Strobe 48, 51, 52, 253
Tarrant, W.G. 144
Tass 119
Tate Modern 202
Tatler 104-5, 171, 172, 345, 365, 366
Taverna Agni restaurant, Corfu 333
Taylor, Bob 130
Tbilisi, Georgia 277
TCDD dioxin 308
Temerko, Alexander 248-51
Tenenbaum, Eugene 142, 162
Tenisheva Palace, near St Petersburg 129
Teplukhin, Pavel 340
Test Trust 100
Tetra Pak 132
thallium poisoning 299, 308
Thatcher, Margaret (later Baroness) 50, 58, 129, 171, 256, 257, 350
Thatcher, Mark 257
Thomas Goode & Co., Mayfair 153
Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC 224-5
Thunder (yacht) 265
Tiffany and Co. 177
Time magazine 68
Times, The 17, 331n, 334, 335, 365
Tincey, John 24
Titan International 294-5
Tokyo 17, 142
Tolstoy, Count Leo 167
Anna Karenina 168
Tolstoy, Count Nikolai 167
Tolyatinskoye Obozreniye 271
Tooth, Raymond 348
Torpoint, St George’s Hill, Weybridge 144
Tottenham Hotspur FC 211
Tramp, Jermyn Street, London 120
Trans-World Group (TWG) 322, 323, 324
Transneft 250
Tregubova, Elena 67-8, 360
Tales of a Kremlin Dagger 360
Trident Trust 212
Troika Dialog Asset Management 340
Troika restaurant, Primrose Hill, London 26
Trotsky, Leon 21, 282, 309
‘truth squads’ 50
Tulloch, Alistair 227
Turner, Rodney 175-6
TV6 91
Ubon restaurant, Canary Wharf, London 26
UC (United Company) Rusal 340, 341
Ukhta, Komi Republic, Siberia 41, 42
Union of Right Forces 244
Unistream 350
United Arab Emirates 96
United Russia Party 173
United States
Americans buy up houses in London 131
Deripaska banned from entering 16, 328-9
and the fleeing plutocrats 337
investor visa scheme 24
and a laissez-faire capitalist economy in Russia 337
policy towards Russia (1990s) 63
‘robber barons’ 59
Unity Party 73
University College Hospital 286
University College London 299
URPO 286-7, 288, 289, 293
US Embassy, Ankara 338
US Senate Banking and Financial Services Committee 214
US State Department 328, 336
Usmanov, Alisher 194-5, 226, 277, 348, 358, 363, 364
Ust Llinsky pulp and paper plant 157
Uzbekistan 135
Supreme Court 195
Vainstock, Inna 250
Van Gogh, Vincent 201
Vanderbilt, Cornelius 58-9
Vanity Fair 180
Vassiliev, Andrei 260
Vassilievna, Nina 37
Vedomosti 271, 320
Vekselberg, Viktor 340
Vengrada Estates 212
Venice Biennale 189
Versace, Donatella 181
Vickery, Jo 192-3
Virgin Airlines 257
Virgin Money 122
Vladi-Moscow 168
Vodianova, Natalia 169, 180, 200
Vogue 200
Russian 174, 180
Volkov, Nikolai 77-8
Voloshin, Alexander 85-6, 231
Volvo 38
‘voucher saving funds’ 34
VSMPO-Avisma 342
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire 223
Wadley, Veronica 365
Wall Street financial scandals 17
Wall Street Journal 47
Wallis, Richard 127-8
Walpole, Sir Robert 225
Walpole Collection 225
Walsh, Nick Paton 268
Warren Mere House, Thursley, near Guildford, Surrey 110
Waterside Point, Battersea, London 2, 7
Watford, Mikhail ‘Micha’ 144
Webster, Assia 169
Webster, Stephen 169
Wechsler, William 64
Wentworth Park, Surrey 20, 144
West Bromwich Albion FC 319
Westbury Hotel, Mayfair 178
West LB 218
Westminster, Duke of 128, 157
Westminster Policy Partnership (later Public Policy Partnership) 226
Weybridge, Surrey 20, 143
White, Marco Pierre 104, 162
White Russians 22
Whitechapel, London 21
Wigan, James 356, 357
Wildcat Ridge, near Aspen, Colorado 129
Willis, Bruce 205
Wilson, Governor Pete 50
Winchester College 165
Windsor, Berkshire 143
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of 129
Windsor, Lord Freddie 181
Windsor, Lady Gabriella 171
Windsor Great Park 170-71
Winehouse, Amy 202
Winslet, Kate 144
Witanhurst, Highgate 358
Wolfe, Tom 173
Wolfensohn, James 223
Wood, John D 141
Workers’ Revolutionary Party 269
Workman, Robert 251
Workman, Chief Magistrate Timothy 250-51, 262, 269
World Bank 32, 223, 273
report (2004) 18-19
World Chechen Congress 269
World Economic Forum 49, 275, 330, 336
World Health Organization 208
World Trade Organization 330
www.Spletnik.ru (gossip website) 320
Wyndham, Henry 187
Yabloko 244
Yacht City 170
Yandarbiyev, Zelimkhan 268, 311
Yanukovich, Viktor 276
Yarichevsky, Boris 21
Yeltsin, Boris 46, 60, 165, 199, 337
1996 election campaign 49-51
bargain with the oligarchs 49-51, 66
and Berezovsky 40, 115
and the Chechnya conflict 53
economic reforms 23, 119
ends the Central Bank’s monopoly 47
the ‘family’ 52, 56
funeral 319
ill, often drunk and rarely in control 34-5
indecisive and capricious 34
introduction of free-market economy 32
mass voucher scheme 33
mentally and physically in decline 71
and ORT 40
potential successor to 64
and Putin 70-71, 72, 73, 289
re-election (1996) 83, 274
resignation of 73
Notes of a President 40
Yeltsin family 71, 123
York, Duke and Duchess of 142
York, Peter: The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook 346
York House, Kensington 199
Young, Charles 227
Young, Scott 110
Yukos oil company 46, 59, 350, 361, 362
assets frozen 233
asylum in Britain for executives 282
and Curtis’s funeral 11
enforced renationalization 233, 342
executives flee to UK 210-13, 305
and ExxonMobil 230
investigated by the state 239, 357
and ISC Global 237-8
and Khodorkovsky 48, 59, 209, 215, 218, 220, 221, 243
and Lord Gillford 227
and Lord Owen 226
market capitalization 48
and Menatep 5, 48, 215, 218
minority investors 6
Moscow headquarters 209
offices of Swiss company offices 5
offshore accounts 216
philanthropy 222-3
plans for 244-5
proposed huge dividend 245-6
raids of 210
restructuring 215
revenue from oil exports 217
and Rosneft 341
share offloading 218-19
share price 217-18, 222, 234
sued by companies 239-40
and Temerko 248, 249, 250
the Yukos curse 246-7, 251
Yumashev, Polina 56
Yumashev, Valentin 40, 52
Yushchenko, Viktor 276, 308
Yushenkov, Sergei 274
Zakaryan, Gagik 350
Zakayev, Akhmed 268-9, 282
Zampa Holdings Ltd 237
Zayed Al-Nahyan, Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa bin 98, 99, 100, 102
Zhukov, Alexander 199
Zhukova, Daria (‘Dasha’) 159, 163, 180, 181, 189, 199-203, 320
Zilli menswear shop, New Bond Street 368
Zolotoi restaurant, Moscow 366
Zveri 205
Zyuganov, Gennady 49, 50, 274