Little Ms. beauty of beauties, 12 year old Oksana (Оксана) from the Ukraine. She was passing the summer with an Italian family in Gaeta. When the Soviet uni0n broke up, a lot of the families there were impoverished and a program was set up to send some of their children to relatively rich countries (which Italy was) to look after them for awhile. Most photos were taken with a Canon F1, Sigma zoom on Fuji NPS film. PS: Despite Russia recently deciding to re-annex Ukrania, Oksana and the other Ukranians will always be to me - UKRANIANS, and not Russians.