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Genevieve Maria Rosalin Savitri Anggraini (GMR), is a Indonesian nationality woman born 6th of September 1970 in Probolinggo ( East Java , Indonesia).

She is a recognized polyglot, able to speak, write and read fluently 6 languages : Bahasa Indonesia (native) , Russian , English , Spanish , French and Italian.

Genevieve was growing within a humble family environment, together with her other 3 sisters, being the older among the four of them. His father working at a cane sugar company as laboratory chemist, and her mother being a dedicated housewife.

At the age of 17, she decided that studying Russian language will open a more interesting work activity, due to the lack of language expertise in Indonesia , starting on her own the language practice with just a book and other available simple materials from the Russian Consulate in Surabaya, her hometown.

In 1995, at the age of 25 years , she completed a Secretarial & Management Course in ASMI (Surabaya) , but she was more attracted by learning new languages , as a way to make a living for her and her family.

Before that, she started already to get familiar with French culture first , obtaining in 1994 a French Proficiency title , awarded with honorary mention , offered free of charge by the French Cultural Center in Surabaya. Her teachers were surprised by her facility and dedication to master an overseas language, in such a short time.

This will encourage her to continue her learning journey and approach other languages at similar ease.

She started working in Hotels and Hospitality Industry in Surabaya, hoping this activity will help her to practice and develop her language skills.

In 1997 she moved to Jakarta, looking for a better job to sustain her family , while hungry for adding Italian to her skills set , at the Italian Cultural Center in Jakarta.

She displayed the same resilience while learning Spanish at the Instituto Cervantes in Jakarta obtaining a SIELE Certificate in spanish language, in a record time.

The Russian Cultural Center in Jakarta offered her the open door for her dream to become true, obtaining an special award and recognition diploma in 2007.

From that moment onward, her passion for Russian language was exacerbated, improving more and more her knowledge and mastering the challenging grammar , speaking and writing of such discipline.

At the end of that same year, on 17 November 2007 , she participated to and won the Country award for Indonesia in the World Champion Writing Competition in Russian language. She won the very first place out of 20 participants for Russian writing, among Indonesian nationals .She had the opportunity to travel to Moscow to receive such award from the hands of HE. Vladimir V. Putin (Russian Federation President).

During the following 5 years she was actively working with different companies as language teacher, as well as supporting different Foreign Embassies for official documents translation and as interpreter.

In 1st November 2011 & 2014, she was for two times Finalist in the World Russian Annual Festival ,organized by Mapryal & Russkij Mir (Dr. Vyacheslav Nikonov) celebrated at Saint Petersburg ( Russia)

Later on, in 28th July 2017 she was again selected as Finalist for the Pushkinsky Konkurs organized by Rossiiskaya Gazeta in Moscow.

In 2018 she started to design jewelry and creating her own handcraft designs, promoted by some artist designers in their fashion shows in Indonesia.

In 7th January 2019, the Indonesian nationwide journal The Jakarta Post , in its Lifestyle section , dedicated an article to tell her story and to inspire Indonesian students to follow her language learning journey. As of 1st November 2019, she participated to the Wallachia International Film Festival , a highly professional, industry connected film festival, an exclusive “Plein Air Natural Film Affair”. She was awarded as Best Actress Promo Video with the film " Woman in Red for Sartori di Verona". Shortly after was appointed as Brand Ambassador for Wallachia International Film Festival, to promote it internationally, every year onwards till presently.