#sofia khoreva

Look at these videos ahah:

The music choice in the first one is a very good foreshadowing for her first role major role in nutcracker:

Bonus, her sister Sofya Khoreva, also in RG:

Sofia and Sonya is bizarre, but Natasha being an affectionate way to say Natalia makes slightly more sense to me as a non Russian.

Shortening the name doesn’t seem to always be a priority, like for example the nickname for the name Alisa (Алиса) is Alicka, which has more letters than the original name.

while learning about Russian figure skating, for the life of me I couldn’t figure out who this “Zhenya” was and it took me ages to get it was Evgenija Medvedeva but also Evgenij Pljuščenko.

Wait until you find out that most of these affectionate diminutives/nicknames are unisex 😭😭😭