He holds Russian and British nationality. In 2022, he responded to criticism of his peerage, using a piece in the Evening Standard to say: "I may have a Russian name but that makes me no less a ...
“It may have been the fullest offering of thanks I have ever received,” he wrote. “The simple purity of it.” At the Delaware River, he dug into the murky peerage of its namesake, Lord De La Warr, a ...