The enduring popularity of Russian brides has been a fact in our popular Western culture at least since the end of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Once the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, and also as a consequence of the efforts of then-Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, it was like the dam holding back a sea of beautiful Russian women had finally been breached.
Not soon after the events which took place in 1989 and especially after the Soviet Union as we knew it began to dissolve in 1991, the idea of taking a bride who hailed from Russia began to take hold. This country, as we know, constituted the major part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, along with the Ukraine and Georgia and several smaller satellite countries.
Russian women had always been known by the sophisticated among us as being among the most beautiful, generous and kind of all the women of Europe and the far eastern territories of the European continent. In fact, an open secret among men looking for possible matrimony involving a European woman was that it was possible to date - and maybe eventually wed -- Russian women who looked like Gisele Bundchen and cooked like a world class chef!
The beautiful element in this equation has always been the loyalty, kindness and compassion shown by a Russian bride to her new husband. Perhaps it's a product of generations of such matchmaking in their native land, but no other woman comes close to being immediately comfortable in such a relationship, though she may only have known her beau for a relatively short amount of time before marrying.
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