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She was the only daughter of Edward Shay, the American billionaire founder of the defense and government services contractor, and Ai-San, his half-Japanese, half-Russian wife.

From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2023

He grew up as Harry Gustaf Nikolai Ustinov, believing that his father was Russian and his mother was half-Russian, half-Swedish.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2017

My husband and I are each half-Russian, and I studied Russian for years in college and afterwards.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015

Another person who influenced our notion of Tibet very much was a half-Russian lady called Helena Blavatsky.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2012

This Zoe, or, to speak more precisely, Zoya Nikitishna Mueller, was a pretty, fair-haired, half-Russian German girl, with a little nose rather wide at the end, and tiny red lips.

From On the Eve by Garnett, Constance