Being the one about Anna, because I don't think I can pack it all into one comment screen. XD
Onomastics: Anna is a perfectly respectable Russian name, besides being one I like and wouldn't have compunctions about inflicting on a child if I had one. XD Her ochestvo, or patronymic, is Stepanovna, which reflects her father's name (Stepan); her surname, Kharlova (I don't recall if I've mentioned it in canon, but that is her maiden name), is not a particularly common name in Russia, but is a real name nonetheless.
Amazing Origin!: It's totally Nicholas and Alexandra's fault. XD That movie is responsible for the entire late tsarist/early Soviet tip. Anna was initially a tremendous Sue, though. I like to think I've evened her out over the years.
Career Highlights: Anna was born in 1901 to minor nobility, the second of five children; her father, a naturalist, died when she was very young, and her mother took up drink. Anna raised her siblings. Shortly after her older brother was killed in WWI, she discovered Marxism, which for her was like discovering life. Anna had a checkered career as a teenaged revolutionary, though the danger and excitement increased after the Revolution, during which she cut ties with her natal family. She joined a women's brigade and lost her fingers in the war, about which we've read. XD Subsequently, no longer able to use a rifle as effectively, Anna became a cog in Soviet society; she was engaged, once, briefly to Andrei, whom we've met, and wound up marrying Lev. (Hurrah!)
We haven't seen much of Anna's middle and old age, but it's been implied that she was exiled (she is still a Communist after coming to the US) and that Lev predeceased her.
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Date: 2007-10-08 03:14 am (UTC)Onomastics: Anna is a perfectly respectable Russian name, besides being one I like and wouldn't have compunctions about inflicting on a child if I had one. XD Her ochestvo, or patronymic, is Stepanovna, which reflects her father's name (Stepan); her surname, Kharlova (I don't recall if I've mentioned it in canon, but that is her maiden name), is not a particularly common name in Russia, but is a real name nonetheless.
Amazing Origin!: It's totally Nicholas and Alexandra's fault. XD That movie is responsible for the entire late tsarist/early Soviet tip. Anna was initially a tremendous Sue, though. I like to think I've evened her out over the years.
Career Highlights: Anna was born in 1901 to minor nobility, the second of five children; her father, a naturalist, died when she was very young, and her mother took up drink. Anna raised her siblings. Shortly after her older brother was killed in WWI, she discovered Marxism, which for her was like discovering life. Anna had a checkered career as a teenaged revolutionary, though the danger and excitement increased after the Revolution, during which she cut ties with her natal family. She joined a women's brigade and lost her fingers in the war, about which we've read. XD Subsequently, no longer able to use a rifle as effectively, Anna became a cog in Soviet society; she was engaged, once, briefly to Andrei, whom we've met, and wound up marrying Lev. (Hurrah!)
We haven't seen much of Anna's middle and old age, but it's been implied that she was exiled (she is still a Communist after coming to the US) and that Lev predeceased her.