Yuri Bardov

Bardov, Yuri

Appeared in Forgotten in Death (early June, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: He’d gone a little soft in the middle and carried some extra weight there under a fine suit of apricot linen; the butter-yellow bow tie made him look like someone’s dapper grandfather - especially if you didn’t know he’d run a murderous and merciless criminal empire for a number of decades; his hair had gone to silver and he kept it cropped close, he had a charming smile and eyes as cold as January, his voice held only the barest trace of an accent, and came rich and full
• Age: Late 80s
• Hair: Silver
• Eyes: Ice blue
• Relationships: Marta Bardova (wife); two unnamed sons; two unnamed daughters; Alexei Tovinski (nephew of his wife); unnamed grandchildren, at least one of which is female; Nicholas Michael Cobain (great-grandson); Tasha Cobain (great-granddaughter)
• Address: Lived near Rosehill in the Hudson Valley
• Occupation: Founder/owner of Bardov Construction

Interesting Facts

• Married nearly sixty years.
• Nadia Tovinski, Alexei Tovinski’s wife, was the daughter of Marta’s oldest, closest friend.
• He bought his Hudson Valley land from Elinor Bolton Singer and built some cottages and an estate there. He also bought her Park Avenue apartment from her.
• Jenkinson had a weasel when he was still in uniform and Eve was “still in diapers” - an asshole but he had his ear to the street and told him about a big weapons deal coming up. Bardov had a weapons pipeline going up and down 95, and the weasel said he’d pass on what he gets but the next day he was floating in the East River, throat slit with a dead rat tied around it. “[Bardov’s] hands look clean. They ain’t. Never have been.” However, he never touched the sex trade, felt like it was beneath him. Gunrunning, cybercrime, booze, the protection racket, all that, but no sex trade and no kiddie porn or exploitation.
• Another story Jenkinson had from when he was a new detective: “There was a task force working on a child porn ring. Getting close, that was the buzz. Before they nailed it down, every one of the ringmasters ended up dead. Organized hits - coordinated, professional hits. It had Bardov all over it. Couldn’t pin it on him. Maybe they didn’t try so hard.”
• He called Marta “lyubimaya,” which means darling, and Eve wondered if she’d still see the same look in Roarke’s eye when they were eighty.
• When he and Marta married, she insisted that their children not be a part of the business, including Bardov Construction.