In 1980, he married Lyudmila Narusova, at that time a history student at the Leningrad Academy of Soviet Culture and later a prominent MP.

The Commission's report made it more difficult to use military force against civil demonstrations in the Soviet Union and Russia.

He was a member of the President's Consultative Council during Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure and contributed to legislation that originated from the presidential administration.

Sobchak won the elections, and the city voted to return to its historical name of Saint Petersburg.

The name change was established in one of the last sessions of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union, held on 12 September 1991.

According to Ksenia Sobchak, this campaign was started in 1995 from Moscow to prevent her father from running in future presidential elections.

[9] On 7 November 1997, Sobchak flew to Paris on a private plane without passport processing on the Russian side.

In June 1999, his friend Vladimir Putin became much stronger politically (in a few weeks he became the Prime Minister of Russia), and he was able to make the prosecutors drop the charges against Sobchak.

On 17 February 2000, Putin met with Sobchak and urged him to travel to Kaliningrad to support his election campaign.

[10][14] 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.

[10][18] 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.

[19]Putin's 'First Killing' |date=2 May 2018 }} He was interred in Nikolskoe Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg, near the grave of Galina Starovoitova.