Kirstov

The Kirstov Family

 * While the Kirstovs are a very large family, the post Soviet Era Kirstovs have had fewer children due to economic constraints. The Soviet Era Kirstovs all had large amounts of children because that was encouraged. The Kirstovs, especially Serji as he was the General in charge of the Moscow bunker, are known for fighting the Quintesson invaders and opening the bunker to non-KGB members during the crisis and allowing them to stay until they found housing afterward.


 * Victor Kirstov was a friend and fellow general of Interrogator’s Grandfather, Alexander Markov. Sergi was his son and was Interrogator’s commander when he fled from Borovia to Russia.


 * Serji had 10 children by multiple wives but he always favored his oldest male child and groomed him to take his place as not only head of the family, but also as a high ranking KGB officer. It was customary that there be one Victor in every generation to honor the original and confuse enemies of the family.


 * There are only really going to be a small number of Kirstovs who matter. So far they are Victor Kirstov V and Natalia Kirstov.

Natalia Kirstov is a psychological operations officer and Interrogator’s girlfriend since the KGB loosened up on Interrogator. She is Interrogator’s favorite out of all of the Kirstovs, with Victor Kirstov V being second. Natalia also handles interrogations as well as being a psychologist. Interrogator taught her many of his techniques and she tries to stick to the nonviolent interrogation methods but she is quicker to use violent ones than Interrogator. She is currently Interrogator’s girlfriend, though they have an open sexual relationship due to their duties.

Victor Kirstov V is a KGB officer and was groomed to succeed Serji, however there has been tension in the KGB between those who served under the Soviet Government and those who were born after the collapse of that Government. The old guard, who still refer to themselves as KGB, want Russia to return to Communism and the younger members believe Socialism would be better due to seeing how well Cobra Commander does. Many of them idolize Cobra Commander and see him as the Dictator of the future. The Old Guard’s official stance is that Socialism is wrong because of the Hitler and the Nazis, but secretly, many of them have come around due to Cobra Commander’s success and also idolize him, some thinking he is the best Dictator since Stalin. Both Natalia and Victor V appear to support the Old Guard on the surface, but secretly idolize Cobra Commander. Some of the idolization of Cobra Commander’s Dictatorship is due to how well Interrogator has done for himself.