Moscow police have stopped an unemployed Dagestani construction worker who attempted to enter the Kremlin to talk to President Dmitry Medvedev about marrying into his family, according to a Russian tabloid.

The man, identified by Moskovsky Komsomolets as Bakhtiyar, was stopped at the Kremlin's Spasskiye Gate at about 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, district police chief Oleg Vasilyev told MK.

The hapless groom-to-be was seemingly unaware that Medvedev only has a son and police sent him for a mental examination.

MK reported on Wednesday that the 35-year-old Dagestani came to Moscow two years ago and found a job at a construction site as a crane operator. He sent his earnings to his parents and brother in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, but the construction project was frozen as the economic crisis struck and Bakhtiyar lost his job.

With work hard to come by, he had apparently decided to improve his financial situation by marrying into wealth.

MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti)