Paul Klebnikov

Paul Klebnikov, editor of Forbes magazine in Russia, was a journalist who was willing to take on the rich and powerful in Russia. He was shot nine times on July 9, 2004, in a contract killing as he left the magazine's headquarters in Moscow.

Descended from Russian aristocrats, Klebnikov grew up in New York, but his family never lost their Russian roots.

Klebnikov attended Phillips Exeter Academy from 1977-1981.

Klebnikov graduated from the University of California, at Berkeley. He later received his Masters and Ph.D. degree from the London School of Economics.

After college, Klebnikov trained to be a U.S. Marine, and entered an officer's candidate school. He was offered a commission but turned it down.

He was the youngest in his family, but he more than held his own. "He had a tremendous spirit of discovery," says his brother, Peter. He later found what would become his true job -- working in New York as a reporter for Forbes magazine.

Klebnikov married his true love, Helen Train, known as Musa. They first met in childhood.

Paul and Musa Klebnikov married in 1991, in a traditional Russian ceremony.

Just three months after Paul and Musa Klebnikov married, the Soviet Union collapsed.

Paul and Musa Klebnikov eventually had three children. Here, Klebnikov is reading to some of them.

Klebnikov took an opportunity to move to Moscow in 2004. He shocked many Russians when he published a list of the 100 wealthiest Russians in the second edition of the newly launched Forbes Russia magazine, complete with financial details.

Klebnikov wanted to expose the corruption in Russia's new economy, where the rich and powerful often operate beyond the law.

Klebnikov is the author of "Godfather of the Kremlin," about a notorious businessman. The two feuded for years. In his most recent book, "Conversation with a Barbarian," Klebnikov took on one of the leaders of the "Chechen mafia."

Just before he was killed, Klebnikov was probing corruption in Moscow's real estate business, and was investigating the auto industry of Togliatti.

At the time Klebnikov was gunned down, he was looking into the murder of another journalist who had exposed fraud at Togliatti.

Klebnikov was the first American journalist killed in Russia. But he was an American who considered himself a son of Russia.

High-ranking U.S. government officials have told Klebnikov's family that they will keep pressuring the Kremlin to solve his murder. It's the family's hope a solution will promote Klebnikov's goal of a vigorous free press in Russia.