TBILISI (Reuters) - Eduard Shevardnadze, who died on Monday, helped remake the world as the last foreign minister of the Soviet Union, only to be bundled from power, pale and confused, by the democratic forces his work had unleashed.
Charm and quick wit set Shevardnadze apart from his predecessors as the Soviet Union's face to the world.
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