In the last days before his death in a hotel room in Washington, DC, the former Russian press minister and the initiator of the creation of the Russia Today TV channel, Mikhail Lesin drank a lot of alcoholic beverages and appeared in public in a shirt and underwear.

This was reported by The Washington Post, referring to the police report on the investigation of Lesin's death.

November 2, 2015 Lesin settled in the hotel Four Seasons. After 5 minutes after placing in the room, he took from a mini-bar a small bottle of vodka and cola.

November 3 at 13:45 Lesin met at the hotel with his friend, whose name is not disclosed. When the guard, after 7 minutes, entered Lesin's room, he found him "unconscious on the bed".

4 hours later, the media tycoon again took alcohol from the mini-bar, led his friend into the lobby and returned to the room. In the evening of the same day, guards noticed Lesin's bruise under his left eye, however, the police report did not say what caused the trauma.

The night and morning of November 4, Lesin spent another hotel, where he also rented a room - Dupont Circle - located within walking distance of Four Seasons.

After that, Lesin returned with a lot of alcohol to his room in Four Seasons, where for several hours he "walked back and forth in his room". In both hotels where Lesin lived, he was repeatedly seen drunk, sometimes only in a blue shirt and black underwear.

At about 14 o'clock on November 4, one of the guards went into Lesin's room and described him as a "stumbling drunkard".

At 20:16 the bodyguard found Lesin, who was lying on the floor, but still breathing, he did not manage to wake up his leader.

At 11:30 on November 5, the guard found the dead Lesin lying on the floor of his room face down. After that, the guard called 911, and the doctors arrived stated the death of the media tycoon.

In the room, the police found many empty bottles of alcoholic drinks from the mini-bar, as well as 3 full bottles of Guinness beer and 2 bottles of red wine.

In the police report there is no answer to the question why the cause of death was called a blow to the head, says forumdaily.

Initially, the family of Mikhail Lesin said that he died of a heart attack, later a version appeared that he died from a blow to the head. In October 2016 the investigation into the death of Lesin was stopped, the incident was recognized as an accident.

Mikhail Lesin was the founder of the company Video International, which shoots commercials for many TV channels in Russia, he also stood at the source of the channels Russia Today and NMG-TV. In 1999-2004, Lesin was the head of the Ministry of Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications of Russia. Until 2009, he was an adviser to the Russian president on media and information technologies. In 2013-2015 he worked as the General Director and Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Media Holding.