Where do you come from?

[Isabella]

I come from the UK, in the south east of England. As for my heritage, it's basically all 'European'.

[Taksa]

Moscow, Russia. all my relatievs are Russians and I was born here. ))
Im pretty happy but I love England and Italy also))

[ChristineM]

Welcome Taksa

I love Moscow - in fact - I just love Russia and all things Russian.   

tsaria
(from Scotland)

[Taksa]

thank you tsaria 

it's rather clearly))

ooh I love Scotland too) in fact, I love not England but The UK)) I was in Scotland last summer and Im very impressed by the views) and I liked to stroll through Edinburgh.))

[Olishka~ Pincess]

I also love Russian very much too I love Russian ballet and dancing. Maija Plisetzkaya is a famous russian ballerina have you heard of her Taksa. I wish I was from Russia.

[Taksa]

Elizabeth~Princess
oh thank you. it's very pleasantly for me to hear that.))
yes Ive heard about her but, shame on me,  I even dont know how does she look like.))
and I was  only once to the ballet. it was Swan's Lake. and I was about 10, with my friend and we were interested in the man behind us much more then in the ballet so I remember nothing.
and what dancing do you like? folk?

[Olishka~ Pincess]

Your welcome I like classical, and ballet fairytale type and folk and I love skating Sasha Cohen is my favorite I love her skating. Swan lake is a very good musical. I seen some pictures of her a while ago. I like Michelle Kwan also. The best out of all in skating in my opinion is Sasha Cohen.Tatiana Tarasova is a russian ice skating coach.

[Taksa]

Elizabeth~Princess
isn't Sasha canadian??

ooh folk dancing is sooo silly and funny..smth like kasatchok.. and songs, music too...balalaika...
but lassical mucis is something incredible.

and returning to skating - I love Pluschenko

[Olishka~ Pincess]

Elizabeth~Princess
isn't Sasha canadian??

ooh folk dancing is sooo silly and funny..smth like kasatchok.. and songs, music too...balalaika...
but lassical mucis is something incredible.

and returning to skating - I love Pluschenko

No Sasha Cohen her parents from the Ukranian and Russian but she was born in America she is also jewish.

[Georgiy]

"it's Vasa. Wasa is technically not correct but spelt that way"

I thought in Old Swedish that W and V were interchangeable. I couldn't remember off hand whether the boat's name had been spelt with a W or a V. Men inget problem!

[Taksa]

No Sasha Cohen her parents from the Ukranian and Russian but she was born in America she is also jewish.

uuuuh...ok))
you know much about skating)

[Trevor]

"it's Vasa. Wasa is technically not correct but spelt that way"

I thought in Old Swedish that W and V were interchangeable. I couldn't remember off hand whether the boat's name had been spelt with a W or a V. Men inget problem!

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The boat was spelled with a V as was the name. It's spelt with a W in North America and some other places  but in the old swedish books it's a V.

[doddy3988]

Hy, I'm from Romania....I'm fascinated by everything that's a part of the russian culture. Hope to see all of you here. 

[KiKi]

I was born in Wisconsin, but I claim Texas as where I am from.  I currently live in South Florida.  I have lived in Maracay, Venezuela, Bogota Colombia, Houston, Texas, Milwaukee (born there) and Ripon Wisconsin. (and several other small places.)

My hubby grew up in Puerto Rico and his grand dad is from Catalonia, Spain.

My dad is from Colombia, mom is 2nd generation US family from Germany.

[Cordelia Flyte]

Wow, the responses to this simple question show that interest in the Romanovs and Russian history transcend all national, ethnic and religious borders.

Though, this question is always hard for me to answer.  Short of quoting Wordsworth let's just say I was born in Ottawa, Canada, and lived in Massachusettes, Michigan, and California.  My Mom was Irish/Catholic-Yankee/Anglican, and my Dad is from Lucknow, India.  His family were former Sikhs who converted to Christianity in the 19th century.  Okay, way more info than anyone wanted.  Got it.

I got interested in Russian history in college.  The Cold War was still pretty cold and I wanted to understand what it was all about.  Being mostly Irish by temperment, that meant going back to the beginning, or thereabouts.  Once into it, I loved the topic and regretted that there were only 2 courses available.