It’s an experience that has its benefits - she speaks Russian, Mandarin, and English - but being a Black Russian woman has also piqued the curiosity of many.ĭuring her undergraduate studies at the University of Rochester, where she majored in environmental health, people were often surprised to learn that not only wasn’t she American, but she was Russian. The 21-year-old was born to an Equatorial Guinean father and Russian mother, but raised in China.
Victoria Nadezhda Bela’s background is unique.