when i was younger, my first real intense teenage crush was on a russian boy in my class. and honestly… i fell just as hard for the language. i remember being completely mesmerised by the way russian sounded, like it unlocked something in my brain, and suddenly i was deep into russian literature, romanticising the country, building entire little dreams around it.
mind you, i was a indian-belgian teen in the 2000s. absolutely no one around me was on that wavelength. i was fully alone in my niche obsession and just vibing in my own little russian-coded world.
so i have to say… i feel a very specific kind of validation right now seeing half the internet collectively agree that russian is, in fact, sexy.
thank you ilya rozanov, i’ve been right all along.
