Hee!
I wanna like brainstorm at this one, but seriously, my time and energy are in so many other places than writing I doubt I'd ever do much with the notes.

I was thinking though, to get around the whole Russia thing and the ballet thing, to set it in some other-world kind of thing with fictional countries all around and maybe have a little more suspension of disbelief? I can look creative instead of uneducated?