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Juror number 11# Russian watch maker – Character Profile

U.S Citizen

JUROR 11 – NAME AND AGE

• Name: Vladimir Kalashnikov.

• Age: 44 years of age, he looks quite handsome for his age, and always looked young for his age.

JUROR 11 – PLACE OF BIRTH

• Place he was born in Russian, Saint Petersburg. In a small poor town called Kronstadt. Beautiful city but not beautiful in it's economy.

Saint Petersburg, a city of Russia.

Saint Petersburg on the map.

JUROR 11 - WHERE HE GREW UP

• He grew up in Russian, Saint Petersburg, Kronstadt in a small town that was financially broke, it would go through a lot of hard times. Such as attacks from the USSR and bombings. He grew up with his mom, dad, grandad, grandma, his brother and himself, they all lived in one room apartment.

JUROR 11- OCCUPATION

• He was a Russian watch maker, that worked most of the beginning of his life in Saint Petersburg, Kronstadt first he was working for chump change, but then the owner saw talent in him and promoted him to work in a bigger factory as the co-owner, where he was making a good income, he got into an incident and hat to flee to the US as an immigrant, he had enough money saved to start his won business, he got some help from the Russian mafia, to start a private business where he was making expensive personalised watches, and slowly he was getting more and more respect from the US citizens and other people where he became a big private business. He usually makes watches that are custom made, such as what material, look design, it will be personalised to your taste.

JUROR 11 – RELIGION

• His religion was Russian orthodox but he wasn’t very religious, nor he had the chance to pray or go to church, life was stopping him from doing that since work was taking up most of his time while he was working back in Russia and in the us there wasn’t any Russian orthodox churches, if there was they were too far away within his reach. But he did pray when he had free time in private.

JUROR 11 - HOBBIES

• His hobbies were mainly going out to the library, he wanted to educate himself because he never had the chance to back in saint Petersburg, but now that every thing is going well he can go out and enjoy himself, he is a type of person to love education but doesn’t have the chance to succeed, on the other hand there are people that have so many chances but they just can’t be asked. He always wanted to study law, but he knew if he did he would have been in a slump to further proceed after he finished school, that’s how he became a juror.

• He also likes to go out to the cinema with his girl friend, they usually go every Saturday after he has finished working and ordering his supplies for his job. (watch making)

JUROR 11 - LIFESTYLE

• His lifestyle is very elegant, he usually dresses smartly, goes out to cafes to eat, usually with his girlfriend if she's free. Smart man. He buys expensive goods (now that his wealthy and humble in the U.S) such as vintage watches, that he modifies to increase in value. He knows how to spend his money smartly.

JUROR 11 - FAMILY

• He was born in a fairly sized, his whole family lived in an old one room apartment, he was living with his mom and dad, grandma, grandad, his brother and himself. His grand parents usually went to car boot sales, to sell some goods that they would find, his brother was in a gang, but he later died because he was involved in a shootout between the Ussr and the rebels. His mom and dad were hard workers, so they never gave Vlad attention.

JUROR 11 - PERSONALITY

• He has a kind personality, his honest, humble and respects anyone who is different faith or race to him. He speaks what is right not disrespecting anyone. He was friendly type but he usually didn’t speak much, or get involved in conversations if he didn’t need to. Quiet type but if communicated would say relevant things.

JUROR 11 – BACKSTORY PT1

• He grew up in A small town in Saint Petersburg called Kronstadt. In a poor area. He lived with his whole family that consisted of six members. His mom, dad, grandad, grandma, older brother and himself. The area he was in had a bunch or rebels rebelling against the USSR, which usually had a lot of fights and shootouts which affected he life a lot because his brother got caught up in the shootout and was shot. The area had a school nearby, he studied engineering, he was quite good at it, he studied it for about four and a half years, after that he left to go work in a watch maker factory. He wanted to go to college but his family did not have enough money, so he had find a job, he was very good so he got promoted to work at another factory as a co-owner and from there and then he lived his life in his home town.

JUROR 11 – BACKSTORY PT2

• But it was too good to be true, there was a lot of conflict happening between communists and non-communists, it was getting out of hand, people dying left and right, and the factory was ambushed and burned down, for a communist propaganda, he had to flee since the factory co-owner ship was on his hand and the owner was going to blame it on him, because who else was he going to blame, the communists, because then they would ambush his factory. So he blamed Vlad and get something out of it, like money or something, a debt on his head. He fled to US as an immigrant (obviously) to start a new life, found a woman, and a job as a private watchmaker, making a good income, he was intelligent, but never had the chance to proof that, and that’s the story to how he became the Juror 11#.