![]() ![]() '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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