 Doina Ruşti (born on 15 February 1957, Comosteni) was brought up in a village in the south of Romania by her parents and teachers, struggling to survive in a communist world.Her blood accommodates ancestry ranging from Montenegrin to Turks, Jews and especially Danuban Romanians, all with long names ending in -escu, most of them teachers, store keepers and horse dealers.Her childhood home in Comosteni preserved the experiences of a Balkan world, collected throughout hundreds of years.