DC behind the Monuments: Mr. Yeltsin enjoys a drink.

  

 



The story is told in Washington that one night, in the middle of the night, a patrolman found Russian President Boris Yeltsin, in his underwear, staggering drunk down Connecticut Avenue not from the Soviet Embassy.   When federal and Russian agents arrived to usher him back into the residence he refused to go, demanding to be let go so he could grab a pizza.



The following night, Yeltsin, drunk again, decided to go out for another midnight walk, dressed we assume. On his way back into the official residence, he was stopped by a member of the US Protective Service posted outside the embassy who mistook for Yeltsin for a common street drunk.