20 Facts About Ruslana Korshunova

Ruslana Sergeyevna Korshunova was a Kazakhstani model of Russian descent.

Ruslana Korshunova was best known for her Nina Ricci commercial in 2006.

Ruslana Korshunova was born in Chukotka, Russia and later moved to Almaty Kazakhstan.

Ruslana Korshunova's father Sergey Korshunov was a Red army officer who died in 1992 when she was five years old.

Ruslana Korshunova was discovered in 2003, when All Asia magazine printed a story on Almaty's local German language club, which Ruslana Korshunova was then attending.

Ruslana Korshunova was represented by IMG, Beatrice, Traffic Models, Marilyn Model Agency and iCasting Moscow, which was her mother agency.

Ruslana Korshunova modeled for the covers of French Elle and the Russian version of Vogue Beauty and Vogue.

In 2006 Ruslana Korshunova appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia "Broken dolls" along with Vlada Roslyakova photographed by Patrick Demarcheleir.

Ruslana Korshunova appeared on Dior beauty campaigns but rose to fame in 2006 after the commercial for Nina Ricci, the first commercial of the brand.

Police stated there were no signs of a struggle in her apartment and concluded that Ruslana Korshunova's death was an apparent suicide.

One of Ruslana Korshunova's friends stated that she had just returned from a modeling job in Paris, noting that she seemed to be "on top of the world" with no apparent reason why she would commit suicide.

Ruslana Korshunova planned to celebrate her 21st birthday on Wednesday in Pennsylvania.

However, Ruslana Korshunova appeared brokenhearted and angry in some of her postings on a social networking site.

Ruslana Korshunova said that she wanted to quit the modeling business.

Ruslana Korshunova was on the road, small and pitiful, in a puddle of blood, surrounded by a crowd.

Ruslana Korshunova is still hoping to find the answer from the local police.

On July 7,2008, Ruslana Korshunova was buried at Khovanskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

British TV producer and filmmaker Peter Pomerantsev has theorised that Ruslana Korshunova's suicide was related to her involvement with Rose of the World, a controversial Moscow-based organisation which describes itself as "training for personality development".

Ruslana Korshunova attended training sessions with a friend, Ukrainian model Anastasia Drozdova, who committed suicide under similar circumstances in 2009.

Ruslana Korshunova became aggressive, while Drozdova experienced violent mood swings and grew reclusive; both lost weight.