Mikhail Faustin
Mikhail Faustin (1963 - 2008) is a character in Grand Theft Auto IV, and a major character early in the game. He is the Russian Syndicate leader in Liberty City, controlling most of Broker's money-laundering, cocaine distribution, and pornography.
Mikhail is forty five years old and formerly of the U.S.S.R., where he served during the Cold War along with his friend Dimitri Rascalov. The two then spent time in a prison camp in harsh, snowy Siberia. Mikhail would often remind Dimitri of the time spent there to guilt him into following orders. In the mission The Master and the Molotov, he claimed that without his help, Dimitri would have been "the prison bitch of some gym monkey". Eventually, the duo made it to America, and Mikhail brought his family; his wife Ilyena and daughter Anna. He is very short-tempered and violent with both of them and is screaming at his wife at all times that Niko sees them together.
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Mikhail Faustin controls a large family of Russian mobsters, and he is known for being the most powerful gangster in Broker. However, his demeanor is very poor, as he abuses cocaine and alcohol regularly. He is controlling and angry, showing self-destructive tendencies. He heeds none of Dimitri's advice, who is his second-in-command and the more reasonable of the two. Mikhail also has a violent streak, which leads to the murders of Andrei Utraniyev, Lenny Petrovic, and Jason Michaels, a pimp in the Lost Brotherhood biker gang. This streak makes him a danger to the rest of the Russian families in the city. Faustin meets Niko Bellic after the man executes a low-level employee in Faustin's employ, Vladimir Glebov. Instead of killing Niko, Mikhail offers him some work.
The murder of Lenny Petrovic violates a peace treaty between Faustin and the most powerful Russian in the city, Kenny Petrovic. Petrovic puts contracts out on the heads of Mikhail, Dimitri, and the assassin, Niko. Determined to make peace, Dimitri betrays Mikhail and sends Niko to Perestroika to assassinate him, as a peace offering to the Petrovics. Faustin flees to the roof of the club, but Niko gives chase, and kills him as promised.
Mikhail has several tattoos, a Russian Mafia staple. Both he and Dimitri have a tattoo on the palm of their hands as well, which means "brothers for life" according to Mikhail.
Mikhail Faustin lives with his family in a mansion in Beachgate, Broker. He owns the Perestroika Cabaret Club at Tulsa Street, Broker. He drives a Turismo (no fixed colour) which can be stolen from the driveway of his house, and a custom black Schafter, which he drives at the beginning of the mission The Master and the Molotov.
Faustin's Death
On Dimitri's orders, Niko heads over to Faustin's cabaret club and confronts him and his goons inside. The bloody chase leads to the back of the club where he is cornered at the top of a fire escape. Niko shoots him in the legs, then in the stomach, whereupon he quietly falls from the roof of the cabaret club and dies. On the roof, he drops a Micro-SMG.
If you listen to his dialogue on the roof before executing him, he warns Niko that Dimitri will betray him as well, saying that Dimitri had become greedy, putting America's glamorous promise of riches and success before loyalty. This would seem an accurate warning, as Dimitri does betray all his business partners over the course of the game.
Murders committed by Mikhail
- Andrei Utraniyev (killed for noisily beating Niko with a saw while Faustin's wife was in the house)
Karel Roden voiced Mikhail Faustin.