Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin was hospitalized Wednesday after falling and breaking his leg at a villa in a resort town on the Italian island of Sardinia, officials said. Emergency service workers arrived early Wednesday at the home in exclusive Porto Rotondo where the 74-year-old Yeltsin was staying and took him to a local hospital, said Giuseppe Soro, director of the ambulance dispatch center in Sassari.Yeltsin's spokesman, Vladimir Shevchenko, told Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency the former president broke his thigh bone in a bad fall. Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a source close to Yeltsin as saying the former president left on his private jet Wednesday evening for Moscow and was expected to be hospitalized immediately.