In July , while residing in Washington, D. On April 26, , a federal judge sentenced her to 18 months in prison. She was deported back to Russia. Her mother was an engineer and her father was an entrepreneur who established a furniture manufacturing business in Barnaul.
One woman faked her way to the top of Manhattan's social elite — for a while
Filthy Rich: Photos of Russia's Wealthy Elite and Their Hired Help - VICE
Sorokin, a Russian immigrant from a middle-class family, longed to be a member of the upper echelon of Manhattan society. To friends and those wanting to do business with her, there was no reason to believe she was not who she said she was — a wealthy German heiress with a taste for the high life. For years, she had played the part, and looked it, too. She wore the latest designer clothes — Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent — and moved from one boutique hotel to the next.
This is a piece on history of women in the United States since , and of the Thirteen Colonies before that. The study of women's history has been a major scholarly and popular field, with many scholarly books and articles, museum exhibits, and courses in schools and universities. The roles of women were long ignored in textbooks and popular histories. By the s, women were being presented as successful as male roles. An early feminist approach underscored their victimization and inferior status at the hands of men.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian society has gone through major changes—from being the society of the proletariat to a present-day world of newly established classes and social difference. The 90s saw the wild, uncontrolled rise of capitalism and a deepening gap between the rich and the poor. Moscow-based photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan is interested in how these roles continue shifting even today. Her photographic series Masters and Servants explores the relationship between Russia's rich and their servants, the complex social hierarchy of today's Russia, and the paradoxical situation in which society's most economically vulnerable can find themselves working side by side with its most wealthy.