Sentence examples for russian descent from inspiring English sources

She was of Russian descent; she was not from Russia.

Is Aelita, an Australian of Russian descent, the next Jackson Pollock?

(The family, of Russian descent, changed its name after immigrating to the United States in 1939).

Mr. Blavatnik is of Russian descent but lives in New York and is an American citizen.

Of Russian descent, Shteyngart hops between the deep soulfulness of Russian literature and the skittish parlance of online communication.

His father, an immigrant from Germany, manufactured tents, and his mother, who was of Russian descent, was a bookkeeper.

Of Russian descent but raised in Brooklyn, she acquiesced when her husband suggested they move to the Soviet Union from Paris in 1936, against their friends' fearful objections.

The article also erroneously included a wealthy American industrialist of Russian descent among a group of sporting oligarchs who have purchased or sought to purchase professional teams.

Released by the US government in 1958, Pound returned to Italy, where his daughter had married an Italian Egyptologist of Russian descent, Boris de Rachewiltz.

His father was of German (including German-Russian) descent, while his mother was of English, Scottish, German and Scotch-Irish ancestry.

Levine was of Russian Jewish descent.