The curator of Leningrad’s Hermitage Museum, portrayed by Gabor Vernon, who exposes the jewel forgeries of Lenkin (PETER PORTEOUS) in Octopussy. Brought as a consultant to the Kremlin Art Repository by a suspicious General Gogol (WALTER GOTELL), Borchoi scrutinizes what is supposed to be a genuine Romanoff Star. Without hesitation, he then drops it onto the floor, smashing its phony glass texture to bits with his boot.