#Margarita Drobiazko

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Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas Free Dance, 1996.

Soundtrack from Wild at Heart (1990) by Angelo Badalamenti and Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman.

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Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas's free dance at the 1995 Skate Canada and the 1996 World Championships.

(Photos by Barry Mittan)

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Margarita Drobiazko & Povilas Vanagas, Phantom of the Opera FD, Euros 2006 [x]

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What is happening. *snort*

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Idk if y’all remember but this EX is absolutely legendary and it was my favourite program to watch as a child. Also I had a huge crush on Margarita (probably because I thought she looked like Keira Knightley lmao). Anyway I miss them :(

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Premiere of Tatiana Navka’s Ruslan & Ludmilla - it looks great! Dozens more pics at the source 

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Ice Age, episode 1

My newly acquired knowledge of cyrilic alphabet opened me a whole new world on Youtube, I can search names in Russian! That’s how I discovered this show (yes, that’s the show Alina and Yagudin are hosting). And I love it. Honestly, it makes me so happy that I can’t even describe how much. I suspects it’s for several reasons though. 

1) I’m not a competitive person. I don’t like too much drama. And when you are watching skating, there’s always something at stake. Here you just watch nice skating. Of course, there’s jury, there’s people’s voting. Some couples being eliminated. But in the end you can just enjoy the programs. You are not being reminded that this is the wrong edge or not a level 4 position in the spin :p You can just be amazed by the choreography from the beginning to the end. And that’s what I’m doing. 

2) As strange as it sounds... I enjoy that the people in places on social media I’m visiting (when I wanna talk skating) usually don’t watch this show. I don’t have to worry what terrible take or insult I’ll see on Twitter. What will be deemed “problematique” by the Twitter moral teen squad. The comments on Youtube are almost entirely in Russian. And because I’m reading cyrilic alphabet as slowly as a first grader I simply don’t read the comments. 

3) Maxim Shabalin. He a prince. He fluffy. I love him. 

So, the show is amazing. I’ve already said that. It’s like Battle of the Blades. But instead of speed skaters and hockey players the “new figure skaters” are celebrities like actors, singers, football players. So it’s Dancing with the stars but on the ice. 

There are fourteen couples. Which means fourteen amazing performances. Yay!!

Let’s quickly introduce the couples:  1. actress Nadezhda Mikhalkova / Maxim Marinin 2. journalist Olga Pautova / Maxim Shabalin 3. singer Vlad Topalov / Elena Ilinykh 4. host Vladimir Marconi / Margarita Drobiazko 5. actor Viacheslav Chepurchenko / Tatiana Totmianina 6. hostess, singer Regina Todarenko / Roman Kostomarov 7. actor Wolfgang Cherny / Oksana Domnina 8. actress Irina Pegova / Alexei Tichonov 9. actor Evgeni Pronin / Tatiana Volosozhar 10. actress Maria Lugovaya / Povilas Vanagas 11. football player Dimitri Sychev / Maria Petrova  12. hostess Olga Buzova / Dmitri Soloviev 13. singer Vlad Sokolovskii / Ekaterina Bobrova 14. actress Olga Kuzmina / Alexandr Enbert

It’s so great to see again the skaters who recently retired, like Dmitri and Ekaterina but especially Alexandr Enbert. (Also, Povilas Vanagas is hot). 

And now to my favourite performances:  Vladimir Marconi / Margarita Drobiazko - so much fun. 

https://youtu.be/rpDQfqWOKGk

Viacheslav Chepurchenko / Tatiana Totmianina skating to Alla Pugaceva. That was awesome. 

https://youtu.be/1_aEbkOhHGI Dimitri Sychev / Maria Petrova. The technical elements were imo so difficult. 

https://youtu.be/xOPm6mBh580

Of course, I can’t forget Olga Pautova / Maxim Shabalin. Just beautiful.

https://youtu.be/t-yCL7fN638 

And the best: Olga Kuzmina / Alexandr Enbert. Just so funny, jazzy, easy with amazing lifts. 

https://youtu.be/btUTwtniCbM

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NATIONAL MARGARITA DAY!

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In  light of Elena and Ruslan's announcement......

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Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas practising and competing their Phantom of the Opera free dance at the 2006 World Championships.

(© A. Chempinski)

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Good lord, Povilas Vanagas is a good looking man. I might have a low grade crush on his wife as well.

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Discovered more Drobiazko/Vanagas goodness that is fairly recent. liamselfworth, have you seen this?

Or this?

Or this?

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I have

I may have done a really lazy dub edit to a Ravensburger CD in honor of Ruslena's announcement

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Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas Exhibition, 2006.

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Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas skating their Spanish Medley original dance at the 2002 European Championships.

(Photos by Barry Mittan)