Russian oligarch Boris Beresovsky, who was mysteriously found dead on the bathroom floor of his ex-wife's home in England, has been buried in a low-key ceremony in Surrey.
The funeral, nearly six weeks after the incident, took place at Brookwood cemetery near Woking in the presence of around 30 mourners including family, friends and his British lawyers.
According to the Guardian, the service took place yesterday in a small brick chapel, overlooked by Russian pines and silver birches and under an overcast sky.
Mourners dressed in black and bearing lilies, included the oligarch's close friend Akhmed Zakayev, the London-based Chechen separatist leader who was there with his son.
Beresovsky's daughter Elizaveta and five other children attended, bearing flowers.
At the time of his death Berezovsky had spent more than a decade waging a high-profile media battle against his one-time protege Vladimir Putin.
Berezovsky's relatives had originally planned to hold the funeral on Monday, but switched the day and the venue to dodge Russia's pro-Putin state media, and to wait for an Orthodox priest to fly in from Moscow, the newspaper claimed.
"He was a friend. I miss him. I'm very grateful to Boris. Through him I felt the touch of history," said Berezovsky's friend Alex Goldfarb, who alongside Beresovsky played a defining role in Russia's turbulent post-Communist 1990s.
Berezovsky's body was found on March 23 at his ex-wife Galina's home in Ascot. He was 67.
He had been living there after legal bills forced him to sell his own luxury Wentworth home.
Detectives have said they believe Berezovsky killed himself. A preliminary inquest heard a ligature was found around his neck.
Friends admit he was depressed and demoralised after losing his USD 5 billion high court litigation battle last autumn against Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich.
Some, however, are convinced he was murdered.
