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  • do you feel?

  • I mean, in any way, like, is it like going home?

  • Do you feel a connection to Russia?

  • Because you are Russian, Properly Russian When I'm half Russian.

  • My mom's London West Ham.

  • Actually some properly West Ham in Russia.

  • So, Yeah, my dad was born in Russia.

  • Yeah, he came when he was two years old.

  • Grew up here.

  • But when he was born in Russia.

  • Yeah, because your name.

  • I mean, you were born with a proper Russian name, which I can't Yeah, ee.

  • Yeah, Well, I Cheever Helen, but LeAnn on the Russian version of that Yeah.

  • So you were born here.

  • Your dad wasn't born here, and then your grandfather was the person who came here?

  • Yes.

  • Yes, Exactly.

  • And what was he?

  • He was one of the He was in the army and he was in the czarist army.

  • I mean, I can't receive and accept a long time ago, but he was actually a young officer, a colonel in the czarist army.

  • Yeah, and he was sent here to make an arms deal with the British government because the Russians have very few arms at the time.

  • So and then he basically got cut off by the Revolution.

  • Because if he went back, he would have been instantly ex executed.

  • So, um and he began with a cabbie.

  • He came a London taxi driver.

  • Andi, You know, as his fortunes went down and down and down and he got cut off from the family estates in the money in a new restaurant in Russia.

  • He eventually became a cabby.

  • My dad did the knowledge as well.

  • Your daughter of two cabins.

  • Yeah.

  • Oh, wow.

  • Yeah.

  • I heard you talking about your household, that it was quite Russian, growing up like there wasn't Russian.

  • I didn't notice that.

  • There's not much small talk, you know, You don't have small talk in Russian now.

  • So what do you talk about?

  • You talk about the soul and you talk about, you know, is there God and you talk about deep philosophical stuff.

  • So when I sort of grew up on Dhe left home, I found it almost in part.

  • I would've found it.

  • Impossible to sit here, not talk about really heavy.

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  • On catch up.

do you feel?

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