got sad thinking about the circumstances Irina must have been in for her to marry someone who is more than twice her age :(( then it gets even worse considering that Ilya says his mom was still in her twenties when she had him and he is canonically four years younger than his brother in the books, so the absolute latest she could’ve had Alexei/Andrei is 25 but let's be real, it's way more likely that she was closer to 20 when she had her first child. She was a mom of 2 by the time she was 24 and she was married to a miserable old man who consistently abused and terrorised her. Irina Rozanova, you deserved the world :(((











