Viktor Kolzak

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Name: Aleksandr Viktorovich Solonik
Alias: Viktor Kolzak, the Beast, the Black Prince, Alexander the Great, Superkiller
Clan: Ventrue
Sect: Independent
Sire: Gaius Marius Quinctius Flamininus

Parents: Bogatyr and Galina Solonik
Sibling(s): Demyan, Stanislav, Yekaterina
Children with Stasya: Aleksei Günter, Markus, Aleksandria Tiffany, Sascha Ambrosii, Yuliya Adámas

Love Interest: Stasya Marchenko
Past Relationships: Tatiana Oprichniki, Mercedes de las Nieves, Anna Oblonsky

Childer(s): Victoria Warrington, Gabriyel Grünbaum, Derrick Talbot, Bela Talbot
Ghoul(s): --

Year Born: June 30, 1161
Year Ghouled: 1194
Year Embraced: 1620
Heritage: Russian
Place of Birth: Kurgan, Russia
Residence: Moscow, Agricola

Height: 6'2"
Weight: 185 lbs
Hair Color: Medium Brown
Eye Color: Hazel

Prey Exclusion: Courage

Distinguishing Mark(s): Cathedral tattoo on chest, with 2 towers. Stars tattoos on both shoulders and knee caps. Pirate tattoo between shoulder blades.

Properties: the Red Square; night club

Personality: Intense, Ruthless, Vengeful, Romantic, Commanding, Cunning

Brief History: Public Record..

Early Life
Aleksandr Solonik was born in 1960 in the Russian city of Kurgan. As a child, Solonik showed great interest in martial arts and guns. When he finished school, he joined the Russian military. Soon after his tour of duty, Solonik joined the OMON - an elite special security unit - and eventually received militia training at the Gorkovskiy Institute. However, after 6 months he was expelled for unknown reasons. Upon returning home, Solonik obtained a job as a gravedigger at the Kurgan cemetery. He was soon married and his wife gave birth to a daughter. After some time they divorced and Solonik remarried another woman, with whom he had a son. Solonik was charged with rape in 1987 and sentenced to 8 years in prison. During a farewell meeting with his wife before he was deported, Solonik escaped by jumping from the second floor of a building. After several months Solonik was apprehended 120 miles north of Kurgan and taken to the prison.

Hitman
Because Solonik had worked for the army and had some police training, he was entitled to a private jail cell but was nevertheless placed among the prison population. When it became known to the other inmates that Solonik had been a soldier and had worked for the police, he was marked for death. In the absence of rules or police protection in the prison, Solonik was on his own. But he survived. According to rumor, Solonik sometimes took on as many as 12 hardened inmates a time, eventually earning the respect of his fellow prisoners. After 2 years, he escaped again.

Solonik again went back home to Kurgan, joined the local criminal organization and started work as a hitman. Solonik's first target, the leader of a rival organization, stood little chance and was eliminated in 1990 in the city of Tyumen. After this hit, Solonik travelled to Moscow with other members of the Kurgan organization to seek work. In 1992, Solonik assassinated the Russian thief Viktor Nikiforov. Six months later he murdered another important Russian mob boss. This time the victim was a thief in law, Valeri Dlugatsj. Dlugatsj was shot in a crowded disco despite the fact that he was surrounded by bodyguards. In 1994 Vladislav Vinner was eliminated by Solonik. Vinner had become boss of a rival organization after Dlugatsj's death. It was reported that in 1994 Solonik tried to extort another Russian mobster. The mobster made a speaker phone call to settle the extortion, and Solonik immediately identified him as Otari Kvantrishvili, one of the most powerful Russian mobsters in history. Apparently, Solonik was unable to extort money from Kvantrishvili and several weeks later murdered him in an act of revenge. However, the story is doubtful as other people from a gang unrelated to Solonik were convicted in 2008 for Kvantrishvili's murder. Rumors spread that he was supported by the Chechnian groups.

By this time, Solonik had become famous among the criminal underworld and law enforcement figures. Law enforcement took special interest and made several attempts to send him back to the prison. Solonik and a fellow criminal were apprehended by the Moscow police when they were having a drink at a Moscow marketplace. The police failed to check Solonik thoroughly and he opened fire in the police station with a small automatic weapon which he concealed under a raincoat. He hit 3 policemen and ran outside. As he fled the station, he shot 2 more police officers. Solonik was also shot (it is said that the bullet hit him in the kidney, which is incredibly painful, though not necessarily lethal). He was cornered, but managed keep the officers at bay. Eventually he was overpowered and surrendered. Solonik was then sent to a Moscow prison and underwent an operation to remove the bullet in his kidney. In his spare time at the prison, he studied foreign languages. In 1995 he escaped yet again. This time Solonik had few hiding places in Russia, for his name and face were known, but he disappeared without a trace.

Eventually Solonik surfaced in Greece with a fake passport, which he secured from the Greek consulate in Moscow. In Greece, Solonik set up his own organization of around 50 men, which dealt in narcotic shipments and contract killings. Solonik's organization bought several villas in an Athens suburb. Solonik's reputation now grew to legendary proportions with the public and he made Russia's top ten "Most Wanted" list.

Death
In February 1997 Greek newspapers published articles that claimed a Russian mob boss had been found dead 15 miles from Athens. The body was found strangled to death and had no identification documents on him. Authorities nevertheless identified the body as Solonik. In the weeks after his body was found, Greek authorities raided the villas of Solonik's organization and found an arsenal of weapons. They also discovered that Solonik had been hired to carry out a "hit" in Italy.

According to rumors, Solonik was finally put to rest by a Moscow Organized Crime group. However, others insist that Solonik is still alive, and that the body was merely a double. Moscow and Greek authorities had difficulty identifying the fingerprints because the fingerprints on record for Solonik were fake, as he had obtained a false passport before relocating to Greece. Solonik had certainly amassed enough power by the time of his death to have orchestrated a fake death.

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