Category:Kravenoff family

Не бойся. (Never fear.) - Motto The Kravinoff family was a noble family of Boyars. During the Communist rule of Russia, they were a family of White Russians, who were on the side of the imperial regime, due to their connections with Boyars and their benefits from the imperial regime.

Traits

 * Courage
 * Confidence
 * Determination
 * Pride
 * Honor
 * Leadership
 * Loyalty
 * Fairness
 * Dedication
 * Adventure

Kraven Serum
During his hunting expeditions in Africa, Sergei Kravinoff encountered a witch doctor who created a serum that enabled Sergei to have superhuman strength and enhanced longevity that dramatically slowed the natural aging process. The serum was similar to the Soviet serums that were used to some agents of the KGB, but unlike the Soviet serums, the serum allowed the users to have children. Sergei passed the serum to his wife and half-brother. Due to the increased intake of their fountain of youth and strength, the Kravinoff family became mentally unstable and violent hunters. From the serum, Dmitri lived a long life of trauma and mental suffering when he served the Red Army during WWII and the KGB during the Cold War and when he lost his wife and left Pierre in the orphanage. Sergei was 120 years old when he died, and Dmitri remained alive with the age of 110 years. In spite of the many years that had passed, both of them had the physical appearance of a 50-year old man.

History
Before the start of Mr. S, the Kravinoff family was a line of Boyars who take pleasure and luxury during the Imperial Era. When the Revolution came about, their material value had faded, and they fled to America as a means of protection after all of their treasures had been taken by Agents.

Coming from aristocratic roots before the Revolution, the Kravinoff family took pride and virtue of their wealthy background. Because the Revolution decimated the aristocrats to the point that they were forced to emigrate to America, the Kravinoff family was put to shame that they ended up destroying each other and even themselves, which explained their alignment with the White Russians. Their withdrawal from their past life, the beginning of the Great Depression, and WWI turned them mad. The matriarch committed suicide, and the remaining patriarch of the family had an affair with his servant girl, Sonya Smerdyakov. The affair caused the familial relationship between the Smerdyakov and Kravenoff families since the illegitimate birth of Dmitri Smerdyakov. Due to his initial desire to regain the family pride in the world once more, the sole heir apparent Sergei Kravinoff and Dmitri traveled to Africa and became a renowned hunter and his bookkeeper respectively throughout the years that they gained a substantial amount of wealth until they parted ways in the eve of WWII, not before they partook their share of the serum that granted them longevity. Coming back to Russia, both Dmitri and Sergei lived separate lives without crossing paths for years. Dmitri was summoned to join the KGB after extensive training in the Moscow Art Theater and drafted to fight with the Red Army in WWII. Following his old comrade Viktor's death, he watched over Viktor's family as they lived in hiding at the western border of Siberia, up to the point that he personally raised and mentored Viktor's younger brothers, Stefan and Vasily, who became infamous for their participation in the Vietnam War and the Space Race, until Dmitri's transfer as a special operations agent that transferred him to America, which ended when he failed in obtaining schematics from a government lab and placed him under exile from the country. While in the KGB, Dmitri met Katerina Yaroslava, who was actually the heiress of government official Konstantine Yaroslav until she was transferred to the Red Room by her own father to be trained as a Black Widow. By the time of Dmitri's exile, she was arranged to marry Stefan due to his background and wealth until she eloped with Dmitri and lived into hiding until she died after giving birth to their only son, Pierre Smerdyakov.

On the other hand, Sergei traveled all over Asia and Africa, increasing his wealth. Sergei met and married a wealthy White Russian, Sasha. Sasha was also the daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail and Princess Aleksandra of Montenegro. Through their marriage, Sergei and Sasha had two children: Vladimir and Anastasia Tatiana, making both of them heirs of a royal line. Alyosha was Sergei's illegitimate son from another woman; however, not wanting to diminish the family pride again, Sergei kept him as a legal member of the family line, much to Sasha's dismay.

Unknown to the entire family, Dmitri's son was recruited to serve the estate, just as his father did many years ago. Ana didn't know about Pierre's relation to her, even after recruiting him. Pierre served the family for four years until he ran away from them. When Dmitri returned to Sergei after many years, Sergei got to know Dmitri's suffering when Dmitri's old comrade Vasily told Sergei everything Dmitri did before his exile and Sasha's true intentions after he placed Dmitri and his son as part of the will in inheriting the estate. After Pierre saved Dmitri from going to prison, Sergei died from terminal complications of liver disease after snapping his wife's neck, leaving Dmitri, as the remaining Kravinoff in Sergei's generation, to become the head of both Smerdyakov and Kravinoff families.

When the old image of the Kravinoff family as aristocratic hunters was long gone, every member of the Kravinoff family had to redefine themselves on their own. Alyosha studied environmental science in NYU's branch in Sydney to be a conservationist and managed to redefine himself more easily than both Vladimir and Ana because of their dysfunctional upbringing by their mother in the estate. Under discretion and instruction from his father and half-uncle, Vladimir returned to Russia to legally change his name and travel over the world until his decision to settle in Switzerland and work in Schroeder Corporation. Ana was sent to Acardi Academy in Italy by her father after graduating high school in New York, and she was taken in by her former ballet coach Lilia Baranovskaya to train in the Russian Skating Federation after being sought for her potential as a competitive skater. Both Vladimir and Ana had to face many trials and tribulations because of their past lives and the negative reputation of their family name, but they managed to redefine themselves and the Kravinoff name. Both Vladimir and Ana also became conservationists in their later lives; Vladimir became a conservationist focusing on the Arctic wildlife and Ana became a conservationist focusing on the Pantherinae subfamily species.

Since Vladimir's success in Schroeder Corporation and return to the Kravinoff pride and Ana's reinstatement in the Russian Skating Federation, the Kravinoff family became a famous family, next to their royal neighbors, the Trifonov family. From their past image as a family of hunters and members of the cold elite, the Kravinoff family became a family that were known to be famous in social media, sports, business, environmentalism, and conservationism.

Physical Training
Because fighting was common in the upbringing of the Kravinoff family in the past, future children were mandated to learn the martial arts and other forms of physical fitness to defend themselves from each other and their own parents. The martial arts included judo, karate, spasibo, aikido, and krav maga, and they were also trained in gymnastics and ballet to learn stealth and flexibility.

Because of their superhuman strength and their rigorous physical training, the Kravinoff family managed to defend themselves and each other from different kinds of opponents, whether an animal, a person, or a group of people. Their training resulted an increase of their endurance and chance to survive. Vladimir used his training and his survival skills as a Russian Boy Scout for three years and as an adventurer in his adulthood. Alyosha had to use his training to defend himself from dangerous animals and hostile tribes in the jungles of Africa and survive the harsh conditions of the African climate. Ana used her training in defending herself from stalkers and bullies, along with her recreational work in ballet, gymnastics, and figure skating that she was one of the selected few female skaters who were able to master quad jumps.

They were also encouraged to use their skills in competition for a sense of accomplishment like Vladimir when he became a judoka representing Russia in the World Judo Championships and Ana when she became a competitive figure skater representing Russia in the Grand Prix. Vladimir managed to win Silver twice before winning Gold in the World Judo Championships, whereas Ana managed to win Gold in her first and second Grand Prix Finals since her debut.

Another purpose of their training was for their ability to hunt those who hurt them and other members of the family but to never kill. When Vladimir made a trap that he himself accidentally fell while he actually tried to deactivate it and it resulted Pierre to be in a coma, Dmitri and Sergei berated him for almost killing an innocent man. When Vladimir came to know that Seto was the one who shot Pierre with Skander's gun and Seto was about to injure Pierre all the more after Skander's trial, Vladimir and his siblings united to defend Pierre by beating Seto and his men.

Name Etymology
Most members of the Kravinoff family, except for those of the Smerdyakov family like Dmitri and Pierre, have names that mean "protection" and some have names with implied meanings of glory and power.
 * Nikolai means "victory".
 * Sergei means "protector".
 * Sasha and Alyosha mean "defender of mankind".
 * Vladimir means "universal ruler".
 * Anastasia means "resurrection".

Trivia

 * Each of the four main Russian families of the series (Kravinoff, Smerdyakov, Chekov, and Trifonov families) correspond to a House in Hogwarts from the Harry Potter series. The Kravinoff family corresponded to Gryffindor House, which stands for chivalry, daring, and confidence.
 * The Kravinoff family is related to the classical Greek element of fire, which is also the element of Gryffindor House. Like Gryffindor House, their symbol of the family is also a lion.
 * The Kravinoff family have some things in common with the Trifonov family.
 * Both families are the two lasting aristocratic family lines that remained extant.
 * The Kravinoff family is the first mentioned family related to royalty; the next family mentioned was the Trifonov family. A family member coming from the royal line of their families is a main antagonist in the series with Sasha being the main antagonist of Mr. S and Stefan being the main antagonist of Mr. T.
 * Both of their eldest sons were experienced judokas representing their respective countries in the World Judo Championship and by coincidence, they became rivals.