An American in the Russian Diaspora: Xenia's Diaries
Jacqueline Xenia NenchinWelcome to this column about my life as an American living in the Russian-speaking emigre community in the UK and US. I will share thoughts, reflections, experiences, reminiscences, and more.
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"Mixed" Marriages and Converts:
This week Brad Pitt announced that he has gone off the wagon and that before he went on the wagon, he could drink a Russian under the table. Though he presents it as a fact (and it may be that he drank some Russian under the table since I c...
"Mixed" Marriages and Converts:
Being married to a Ukrainian brought many everyday shocks and surprises. Food was not much of a change for me since I had been eating Russian and Ukrainian food for many years when I was in the Soviet Union and in New York. But there were s...
St. Seraphim as a Transcendent Force:
Icon of St. Seraphim with a portion of the relics and the Kursk Icon of the Mother of God, St. Seraphim’s Church, Sea Cliff, NY, Aug. 1, 2026
St. Seraphim’s “tiny cell with just a bench in it was more spacious than the heavens,” said Fr. S...
"Mixed" Marriages and Converts:
About marrying outside the Faith, Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) said, “Vladyka Gregory (Grabbe) and I disagree on very few things, but one thing, perhaps the only one, that we differ on is marriages to the heterodox. He pleads people’...
Xenia as Xeno:
Isaac and I with our friend Professor Fr. Andrei Psarev, NYC, 2016
In Nia Vardalos’s romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the actor Michael Constantine, who plays Toula’s father, calls her non-Greek boyfriend Ian “xeno” or “foreigner....
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Jacqueline Xenia Nenchin is a translator, linguist, educator, and author of numerous academic articles and her memoir "Standing in the Wind: A Cold War Memoir."
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