Ivanov family

The Ivanov family is a premade family that appears in The Sims 3. They live in Riverview, at 13 Lost Willow Road. Rayna Kaminski's daughter, Nadine Ivanov, has recently married and had two children, and her mother has moved in with the young family. They are a very tight-knit family, except that Rayna dislikes her son-in-law, Yuri Ivanov. They are mostly a musical family. Their names suggest an Eastern-European background, possibly Polish and Russian. By their traveling culture and wardrobe, it is suggested that they may be gypsies.

Edit by a Russian history and Sims geek: I believe that it is possible that this family is a play on the Romanov family. Although it is evident that the makers of The Sims 3 didn't know very much about the Romanov family itself, I think that it's possible that they did know enough to make the family a play on the Russian Imperial family.

Here's why I believe this is possible:

- The last name "Ivanov" is somewhat similar to "Romanov", and when I saw their last name, it immdediately reminded me of them.

- It's pretty obvious that they are supposed to be of Russian decent.

- Since The Sims 3 is set 25 years before The Sims 2, which I like to think is set in around 1990, then this means that if the youngest Imperial Princess of the Romanov family (Anastasia Romanov, whom you may have heard of due to quite a few fiction novels as well as the 20th Century Fox animated film that came out in 1997, titled "Anastasia") were to survive (I think it's possible, personally. She, along with her sister Maria, survived the murder of her family, but I won't go too far into that), then she would be around 65 when The Sims 3 was set, making it possible that she may have had children, which I think could be Ryana, Kamisnski being her husband's last name. Anastasia had four siblings; three older sisters (Olga, Tatiana, and Maria. I listed them in the order of their birth, making Olga the eldest) and one younger brother (Alexi. This was his actual first name, not a nickname). I think that it's possible that Tatiana Ivanov could have been named after her great-great aunt, Tatiana Romanov (or, rather, Ivanov, if we play along with the maker's of The Sims 3).

- Dimitri could be named after the famous historical figure (and also a protagonist of the movie I spoke of previously), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia. In the movie, he had a romance with Anastasia, but this was not the case in real life. Sorry, I'm going all into the historical part of it when I probably shouldn't be.

Anyway, I think it's highly likely, due to all these reasons, that the Ivanov family could very well be a play on the Romanov family. Sorry that I got too into it.

Onatomology
Ivanov - Ivanov is a Russian and Bulgarian patronimic meaning "Son of Ivan".

Kaminski - Kaminski is a Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Jewish surname, a name for someone who came from the town Kamien. Kamien is derived from the Slavic word "kamiñ", meaning "stone".

Yuri Ivanov - Yuri is a variant transcription of the name "Yuriy", which is the Ukrainian and Russian form of the name "George".

Nadine Ivanov - Nadine is a French form of "Nadya", which is a diminutive of the Russian name "Nadezhda", meaning "hope". Nadia is also an Arabic name, which means "the one who has been called by God", or "dew"

Tatiana Ivanov - Tatiana is a Slavic name, the feminine form of the name "Tatianus". Tatiana is also a Latin name. The Latin meaning is "defender of her family".

Dimitri Ivanov - Dimitri goes back to a Greek name, "Demetrius", derived from the Greek goddess "Demetra", which means "earth mother".

Rayna Kaminski - Rayna is a Slavic name, which has been made from the Slavic noun "ray", meaning "heaven", so the name should mean "heavenly".

Members

 * Rayna Kaminski
 * Yuri Ivanov
 * Nadine Ivanov
 * Tatiana Ivanov
 * Dimitri Ivanov