Alexandra Mikhailovna Domontovich was born on 31 March 1872 in St. Petersburg. Her father, General Mikhail Alekseevich Domontovich (1830-1902), descended from a Ukrainian Cossack family that traced its ancestry back to 13th-century "dragon genealogy" served as a cavalry officer in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 (sometimes referred to as the Bulgarian War of Independence). After his participation in the war, he was appointed Provisional Governor of the Bulgarian city of Tarnovo, and later Military Consul[definition needed] in Sofia. In May 1879 he was called back to St. Petersburg. He entertained liberal political views, favoring a constitutional monarchy like that of Great Britain. In the 1880s he wrote a study of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 This study was confiscated by the Tsarist censors, presumably for showing insufficient Russian nationalist zeal. Alexandra's mother, Alexandra Androvna Masalina (Massalina) (1848-1899), was the daughter of Alexander Feodorovich Masalin (Massalin) (1809-1859), a Finnish peasant who had made a fortune selling wood. Alexandra Androvna Masalina became known as Alexandra Androvna Masalina-Mravinskaya after her marriage to her first husband, Konstantin Iosipovich Mravinsky (originally spelled Mrovinsky) (1829-1921). Her marriage to Mravinsky was an arranged marriage which turned out to be unhappy, and eventually she divorced Mravinsky in order to marry Mikhail Domontovich, with whom she had fallen in love. Russian opera singer Yevgeniya Mravina (stage name) was Kollontai's half-sister via her mother. The celebrated Soviet-Russian conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky, music director of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra for fifty years (1938-1988), was the only son of Mravina's brother Alexander Kostantinovich and thus Kollontai's half nephew...
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RE: Holiday Invite!!!
Tho im not a wine drinker, i suggest dry white winein my case it will be Rakija -