Posted on June 04th, 2003 05:52 PM by admin

By Introductions By Irina

Here is some statistics for our agency Introductions by Irina during 3.5 years of its existence.

We had 189 customers who ordered our personal searches during this time. True, that some of them changed their minds or their circumstances changed and they soon stopped the process of corresponding, but around 60 of our customers still arrived to St.Petersburg (often relying upon our support here) to visit the lady (ladies) they had been corresponding with through our mail forwarding service. 27 of them informed us soon about their engagement. 9 of these people corresponded most of time with the only lady (the same lady they came to visit and the same one they married to), 16 persons from that list corresponded for a long period of time (not less than 3 months). Two correspondences lasted even for 2 years and were concluded with happy marriages finally. (True, that 3 other very long correspondences of people whom I did not include in this happy list ended with a complete failure after their visit or even after the visit.) As for the ladies, who became married to these 27 men who informed us of their marriages, (some of our customers do not do it, unfortunately), there were 5 20-25 y.o. single girls among them, 5 ladies close to their 40's, others were young women around 30. 16 of them had 1 child, others were single or had no children. 9 of these ladies spoke English fluently, 8 did not speak English originally at all, I translated all their letters, and others spoke English "a little", i.e. were aware of its Grammar to some extent and had some vocabulary. Some ladies started learning English during the process of corresponding and were a great success in it. Comments: everything is possible! :) As for the dilemma writing/visiting first, I would advise those who like writing and may express themselves this way, who have intuition for reading others' letters, who are shy, reserved, introverted, to write first and to try to "feel" another person this way and then, if they "feel" they are lucky, to go! I would advise those who do not think investigations of inner world of another person are really very important in life, which is quite comfortable to meet ladies even in America, who are sociable, comfortable with anyone anywhere, who are confident in themselves under any conditions, to come and meet ladies here in Russia without any preliminary correspondences!

Now I will try to reply to the questions I have received:

Question 1: Perhaps you could post some additional information. How many ladies have you had listed over that time?

We listed the 500th lady in June, but actually there are 370 ladies in our database now. We removed 130 women from the page during this time according to their request, or because we lost their traces (they changed their address and did not inform us). The ladies ask us to remove them when they become engaged to our clients, or to clients from other agencies where they may also send their profiles, we don't mind, or when they marry Russian men.

Question 2: How many have actually been written to by men?

Now I looked through our list and counted 326 ladies from our 500 who actually received at least one letter. True that there are unconditional favorites on our page who received many letters. It does not mean, however, that they are all married. Often a woman receives the only letter from a man and he becomes her husband.

Question 3: How many have actually been contacted by men from different countries?

326 as I wrote above if contact means receiving a letter.

Question 4: How long does the average lady keep herself on your list?

We keep the ladies eternally, until they themselves wish to leave. :) There are ladies with whom we are from the beginning and they are still not married and still hope to find someone through us. I know many of them personally and have become friends with some of them during this long time of our acquaintance.

Question 5: Also what happens to some of these women who are not successful? Do they become bitter at the process or the men?

Not really. They live their life, work, and raise children. Our ladies do not look for husbands professionally. They know that the probability is little. They are happy if they are lucky, of course. If not, they still hope for better.

Question 6: How many of the 27 can you verify are still married?

Unfortunately they usually do not inform us of their "life after agency." But recently a lady arrived from Egypt with a 7.5 months baby, she called me, we chatted a little. She was in the first hundred of our ladies. She was even in the Finnish catalogue I was involved in before our agency. This process took her 4 or 5 years before she met her future husband. She is happy in her marriage. But usually we know about the destinies of our married ladies from their girlfriends who also come to sign up our agency. Mostly from this source and also from men, former clients, who are still in touch, I am certain to know that 9 couples are still married.

Question 7: How many of the 27 can you verify are divorced?

I know about one very painful divorce about the details of which, the husband wrote to me. The girl he married behaved very poorly and his marriage brought him many sufferings. Maybe there are other divorces, but I have no information about them.

Question 8: If divorced, how long did their marriages last?

Very short in this only case I know about. They were separated after several months. Actually they were unhappy from the very beginning.

Question 9: If married, how long have they been married?

Our agency exists 3.5 years, so not more than 3 years, the record of Tania and Beau, our first couple.

There are two other numbers I would find useful: the age differences of those who became engaged

It is something like that (though maybe it is plus-minus 1-2 years in some cases, as I may not remember some men's dates of birth exactly:

0-6	years - 8
7-13	years - 10
14-16	years - 7
17-20	years - 2

*Those who divorced had 7 years difference.

Question 10: The stat that would be additionally useful is how many of the ladies who received a proposal, refused?

I remember at least 10 cases like that. Age difference in these cases was approximately like that:

3-5	years - 3
6-10	years - 4
11-16	years - 3
18	years - 1

You see only one rejection with 18 years age difference. It is maybe because many ladies declined men with such age difference even at early stages, having received their introductory letter.

Almost all the ladies who declined had no children (except one). They were young single ladies 22-28 years old. 6 of the men who were rejected, came to St. Petersburg to meet the only lady. 5 of the ladies spoke English well, 5 did not. Almost all of them lived with their parents.

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