investigation was closed without a finding. The Democratic Union party led by Valeria Novodvorskaya made an official statement that not only Sobchak, but also two of his aides had heart attacks simultaneously, which indicated poisoning. Two other men were present with Sobchak during his death, but their names were not publicly disclosed. According to an independent investigation by Arkady Vaksberg, both bodyguards of Sobchak were treated for symptoms of poisoning after Sobchak's death, indicating a probable contract killing by poisoning. Sobchak's widow Lyudmila had her own autopsy done on her husband's body, but never made the results public; she told the BBC that she keeps the findings in a secure location outside Russia. He was interred in Nikolskoe Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg, near the grave of Galina Starovoitova. Honours and awards Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy" (1996) Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st class Silver medal of the International Olympic Committee (1995) Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg (2010, posthumous), Tbilisi (Georgia, 1991), Indianapolis (USA, 1992), Maryland (USA, 1993), Oklahoma (USA, 1994), Georgia (1995) Honorary Doctor of Law at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg (1991), University of Macerata (Italy, 1992), St. Petersburg Law Institute of the Russian Interior Ministry Honorary Doctor of Political Science, University of Genoa (Italy, 1992) Honorary Doctor of the University of Arts in Oklahoma City (1993) Honorary Doctor of Humanities, Towson University (Baltimore, USA, 1993) Professor Emeritus of the University of Bordeaux (France), East European Institute of Psychoanalysis (St. Petersburg, Russia) Mitterrand awarded the Foundation "Memoria" (France, 1991) Prize winner of the National Democratic Institute of the A. Garrimana (USA, Washington, 1992) Prize winner J. Fulbright National Law Center at George Washington University (Washington, USA, 1992) International Leonardo Prize (1996) Prize winners Starovoitova (2000, posthumously) Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize (2001, posthumously) Winner of the International Prize for the development and strengthening of cultural ties in the Baltic Sea Region "Baltic Star" (2005, posthumously) Gold Medal of the city of Dubrovnik (Croatia, 1991) Gold Medal of the city of Florence (Italy, 1991) Full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Engineering (Department of economic and legal sciences) (1992) Member of the International Informatization Academy (Moscow, 1995) Honorary member of the St. Petersburg Union of Engineering Societies (1992) Gagarin Medal (1996) Medal Admiral MP Lazarev (1996) "Gratitude" medal of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2002, posthumously) Imperial Order of