Updated: 10:23pm UK, Saturday 23 March 2013 Boris Berezovsky was once certainly one of Russia's most powerful kingmakers, a part of the important number of Russian tycoons called the "oligarchs." Born in Moscow in 1946, the daughter of a engineer, he received a in applied arithmetic, before becoming one of lots of Russian entrepreneurs who took advantage of Perestroika. His money was made by him founding the car company LogoVAZ in 1989, trying to sell local Russian cars and adding Mercedes. As his wealth grew therefore too did his sphere of influence and in 1993 he entered the Kremlin's inner circle, eventually making the nickname Rasputin, after the mystic agent to the Romanovs. By the mid-1990s Mr Berezovsky possessed a stake in the oil business Sibneft and had many share in Russia's major tv station, ORT. In 1997 Forbes estimated his wealth was $3bn. At Davos in 1996 forces were joined by him with other businessmen who had grown in the ruins of the Soviet Union and a pact was formed by them, known as the "Davos Pact" in which they consented to bank spin Boris Yeltsin for his second presidential run. Along with members of Mr Yeltsin's family, like his daughter Tatyana Yumasheva, and like-minded politicians, like Anatoly Chubais, Yegor Gaidar and Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, they properly went Russia throughout Mr Yetsinas 2nd term as his health faltered. It is said that it was Mr Berezovsky who hand-picked the ex-KGB head, Vladimir Putin, when it was clear a successor was needed. He might have made him king but Mr Putin quickly made it clear that he wasn't to be anyoneas puppet and shortly after he became President the 2 men fell out. Mr Berezovsky resigned from the Duma and set himself up in opposition then left the nation on business. He never returned. In November 2000, while traveling, he was summoned for economic crimes but he did not react and put up home in London. He was granted asylum in britain in 2003. Mr Berezovsky vowed that he would carry Mr Putin down, but following a number of assassination attempts, he also lived in fear for his life. According to Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian FSB agent who was assassinated in London in 2006, a Russian agent was preparing a hit on Mr Berezovsky in September 2003. Mr Litvinenko had also claimed in 1998 when he was an FSB agent that he himself had been ordered to destroy Mr Berezovsky. In 2007, Scotland Yard said it'd foiled a plot to assassinate Mr Berezovsky in the united kingdom. The so-called hitman, a national, was arrested in London and deported to Russia. Mr Berezovsky also survived an attempt in Russia in 1994 when a vehicle bomb exploded, wounding him and decapitating his driver. And as Mr Berezovskyas power faded in his self-imposed exile, so did his success. In line with the Sunday Times Rich List by 2011, his net worth was just about $900m (A591m). Mr Berezovskyas spot in Sibneft in the course of time resulted in a court battle with Chelsea FC operator Roman Abramovich, which will be estimated to possess cost him A100m, and speculation about his financial wellbeing. In 2012, he lost the High Court case where he charged his fellow oligarch of breach of trust, breach of contract and said Mr Abramovich "intimidated" him into offering shares in Sibneft for a $1.3bn" (A800m) - "a portion of their true worth." In July 2011 his ex-wife Galina Beshanrova, 53, won the largest divorce settlement in history, considered worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Mr Berezovsky ran up further appropriate costs greater than A250,000 later in 2012 preventing a case against his former lover, Elena Gorbunova. Ms Gorbunova, who'd two children with Mr Berezovsky, complained that she'd not been given thousands assured by him. On Wednesday, Mr Berezovsky offered Red Lenin, an Andy Warhol display produce, for A133,875 at Christie's auction house, prompting more speculation about his financial situation. Demoralised by the Abramovich situation, the Kremlin claims that Mr Berezovsky, the kingmaker, was a broken man in the times before he died. He had written, Mr Putinas spokesman said, to beg forgiveness and to eventually return to Russia. He never did.
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