jash
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Why does she have so many names? Ilona Gregorievna and Ilona Gregorievna Gorshkova. Here's a post from her Live Journal, http://gregorievna.livejournal.com/, from 2006
"when i visited the cemetary today, it was sad to see the contrast of the loved graves and the not so loved ones...
it really upset me because most of the graves were bare, empty, and forgotten.
it really terrified me.
i dont want to be one of those graves."
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Regarding Ilona's names, in Russia, a person's middle name often comes from the name of his/her father. Ilona was born in Russia in 1991 and I'm guessing her biological father's name was Gregori. Gorshkova would have been her last name (it was her mother's surname at the time of her marriage to J. A. Flint in 1997).
Her poor mother -- she lost her then-husband to a heart attack when he was only 30 years old, and now she has lost her beautiful 22 year old daughter in an utterly tragic and senseless way.