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'When everything broke up all of a sudden, you were left with no sense of direction. It was a very strict, black and white environment. 'You didn't have an opinion, you did the same as everyone else. 'We had been brought up to be very respectful to older people, to not open our mouths and to always be on time,' says Kristina. With two-thirds of Vladivostok's suburbs so polluted they are classified a health hazard and the average January temperature minus 14C – similar to Alaska – residents struggled to make sense of their lives.īut in many ways it was an orderly society because of the hardships. The newly appointed Mikhail Gorbachev struggled to exercise control and subsequent leaders provided scant moral, political or financial frameworks for the population to fit into. Her problems were compounded the next year as the breakdown of communism spread to their corner of Russia. He remarried and, as she says was typical in Russia at the time, did not speak to her for six years. 'But I felt he loved his music more than me and that, because he wasn't there, I wasn't good enough. 'It was he who encouraged me to dance from the age of six and took me on stage for the first time. 'They were too different,' says Kristina. The only child of a musician father, Igor, and engineer mother, Larisa, her life was shattered when, aged ten, her parents split up. Her ruthless competitiveness would be off-putting were it not for her friendliness and intelligence.Īs a poor ballet student, Kristina's mother sewed her own costumes before she grew to be a star I feel very fortunate.'Īs she talks at the West London gym where she has been rehearsing this week's cha-cha with Sergeant, she comes across as one of life's survivors. 'I used my love for dance to make a career for myself. 'I don't want people to feel sorry for me. 'It was a dark and gloomy time,' she says in her heavily accented English, 'but it was difficult for everyone. It was a period of soaring unemployment, crime and drug abuse, with a huge personal cost for Kristina. She was born into a much bleaker environment, more than 8,000 miles away in Vladivostok, Russia's largest port city on its remote Pacific coast.Įntering adolescence as the former Soviet Union crumbled, she became a member of the country's 'lost generation' who grew up as the once-rigid Communist regime was suddenly pulled from under them. Kristina as a baby with father Igor and mother Larisa before they split up in the Pacific town of Vladivostok
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