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From Russia with Cash;The Inside Story of the Oligarchs
Fourth Estate
July 2010
On Sale: July 8, 2010
416 pages
ISBN: 0007356374
EAN: 9780007356379
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The amazing true story of how London became home to the
Russian super-rich. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth,
ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets,
mega-yachts, the world’s best footballers – and
chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows.
A group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs made
colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism – and many
of them came to London to enjoy their new-found wealth.
Londongrad tells for the first time the true story of their
journeys from Moscow and St Petersburg to mansions in
Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Surrey – and takes you into a
shimmering world of audacious multi-billion pound deals,
outrageous spending and rancorous feuds. But
while London's flashiest restaurants echoed to Russian
laughter and Bond Street shop-owners totted up their
profits, darker events also played themselves out. The
killing of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London to the
death – in a helicopter crash he all but predicted – of
Stephen Curtis, the lawyer to many of Britain's richest
Russians, chilled London's Russians and many of those who
know them. This is the story of how Russia's
wealth was harvested and brought to London – some of it
spent by Roman Abramovich on his beloved Chelsea Football
Club, some of it spent by Boris Berezovsky in his battles
with Russia's all-powerful Vladimir Putin. Londongrad is a
must-read for anyone interested in how vast wealth is
created, the luxury it can buy and the power and intrigue it
produces.
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