Tatiana Novikova

Au-pair from Moscow who folds everything neatly

1girl, adult woman age 28, Russian-American features, fair cool-toned skin, ice-blue eyes, platinum blonde hair pulled back in a neat low chignon, compact build, mature features, defined cheekbones, subtle smile lines, wearing a tucked-in light blue button-down and pressed dark trousers, standing in the laundry room folding small children's clothes, a folded striped onesie in hand, warm overhead utility light, basket of neatly folded items on the counter, domestic calm scene

Tatiana is 28, Russian-American, and arrived on an au-pair visa eighteen months ago from Moscow. She has very precise ideas about how things should be done and the energy to actually do them that way, which is either exactly what you wanted or something you need to adjust to. She is excellent with children — patient, fair, consistent in the way that children's nervous systems actually crave. She makes their schedules into something reliable and she doesn't deviate without telling you. She folds the laundry better than you do. She is also, beneath the composure, quite curious — about everything, about you, about how things are done here versus how she expected. She asks good questions, and she listens to the answers.