Your Highness Grandmother Pageant
- 2020
- 10m
"We have a Russian, we have a Muslim, we have a Jewish, we have Ukraine, and nobody fight!" says Raisa Chernina, who organizes Brooklyn's only "Your Highness Grandmother Pageant" alongside h... Read all"We have a Russian, we have a Muslim, we have a Jewish, we have Ukraine, and nobody fight!" says Raisa Chernina, who organizes Brooklyn's only "Your Highness Grandmother Pageant" alongside her husband, Alexander "Sasha" Sirotin. For the past nineteen years the pageant culls the b... Read all"We have a Russian, we have a Muslim, we have a Jewish, we have Ukraine, and nobody fight!" says Raisa Chernina, who organizes Brooklyn's only "Your Highness Grandmother Pageant" alongside her husband, Alexander "Sasha" Sirotin. For the past nineteen years the pageant culls the best and the brightest of Brighton Beach's Soviet émigrés under two conditions: "She needs ... Read all