Table of Contents
List of Characters vii
Introduction xix
Part 1 Putin I the Lionheart
Chapter 1 In Which Kremlin Strategist Alexander Voloshin Learns to Tolerate Lenin 3
Chapter 2 In Which Political Émigré Boris Berezovsky Is Not Invited to the Royal Wedding 23
Chapter 3 In Which Russia's Richest Man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Loses His Business and Freedom, and the Family Disappears 47
Part 2 Putin II the Magnificent
Chapter 4 In Which Kremlin Chief of Staff Dmitry Medvedev Creates a New Russian Class 69
Chapter 5 In Which Ukrainian Presidential Chief of Staff Viktor Medvedchuk Is the Last Ukrainian to Enjoy Putin's Trust 83
Chapter 6 In Which Deputy Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov Defends the Besieged Kremlin 97
Chapter 7 In Which Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov Comes Up with a Plan to Make Russia an Empire Once More 117
Chapter 8 In Which Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov Is Convinced That He Is the Heir to the Throne 129
Part 3 Prince Dmitry
Chapter 9 In Which Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili Retains Power-and Something Far More Valuable 149
Chapter 10 In Which Barack Obama Becomes the Kremlin's Best Friend and Worst Enemy 169
Chapter 11 In Which Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin Turns into a Russian Che Guevara 177
Chapter 12 In Which Russian Princess Tatyana Yumasheva Comes Up with a New Democratic Party 191
Chapter 13 In Which Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Thinks He Can Lead the People to the Kremlin 207
Part 4 Putin the Terrible
Chapter 14 In Which Patriarch Kirill Gives Fatherly Advice to Russia's Cabinet of Ministers 229
Chapter 15 In Which Kremlin Strategist Vyacheslav Volodin Invents a New National Idea 239
Chapter 16 In Which Putin's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov Realizes the Futility of Trying to Please the West 253
Chapter 17 In Which Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu Takes Revenge for Afghanistan and Nicholas I 271
Chapter 18 In Which Alexei Kudrin Loses the Battle for the President's Heart and Mind 293
Chapter 19 In Which Ramzan Kadyrov Takes a Round Trip to Dubai 311
Chapter 20 In Which Bashar al-Assad Becomes the Mirror Image of Putin 327
Conclusion: Putin the Saint 341
Notes 347
Index 355