A Russian Beauty Themes
Love
The pretty girl gets all the boys, right? So what happened to Olga? "A Russian Beauty" plays with how we expect a story with a young pretty lady to turn out. Instead of having tons of suitors and g...
Society and Class
Social status is everything in "A Russian Beauty." So what if you don't have money? If you can prove that you were once high-class enough, someone might be willing to give you some of theirs. And w...
Suffering
Suffering. The mere mention of it conjures up images of skinny orphan children crying in the rain, or some other sad image like that. But not in "A Russian Beauty." Suffering is no big deal in this...
Appearances
You'd think that with a title like "A Russian Beauty," appearance would be a huge part of this story. Not so much. Don't get us wrong, Olga's beauty is a big part of her redemption at the end of th...