During his career, Dzhugashvili served as a colonel in the Soviet and Russian air force, briefly toyed with politics, and in 1999 stood for Russia's state duma as a representative of a group of communist parties.
A bit boho, a bit tickly, the tassel has been spotted on people outside fashion shows – the likes of Olivia Palermo, Miroslava Duma and The Man Repeller's Leandra Medine.
In 2011 the BNP's Nick Griffin went to Moscow to observe Russia's Duma election.
His comments followed an instruction from Sergei Naryshkin, the Chairman of the State Duma, that Russia's Parliamentary Committee on International Relations consider passing a resolution denouncing the "annexation of the German Democratic Republic by the Federal Republic of Germany".
Following the Duma allegations of "annexation" of East Germany by West Germany, Gorbachev protested, warning that "our appraisal of the past should not be based on today's views".
In June 2013 the Duma passed its own version, making "propaganda" about "non-traditional sexual relationships" a crime.
Konstantin Zatulin, a Duma deputy handling relations with former Soviet republics, is more belligerent.
Neither the members of the Duma, old or new, nor Mr Putin or Mr Primakov, let alone Mr Yeltsin, understand that.
Just days before Mr Lebedev's arrest, another of them, Vladimir Potanin of the Interros group, made a public show of contrition for past excesses and of fealty to United Russia, the coalition in the Duma that backs the Kremlin.So will the St Petersburgers win out?
But after December's dubious Duma election, Ekho Moskvy's role as one of the media resources of protesters put new pressure on Mr Venediktov.
Both SPS and Yabloko, the other standard-bearer of liberal values, fell short of the 5% threshold for automatic Duma representation.
