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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