Poor woman and her newly wed husband. She was really smart, accomplished and beautiful. Life sure can throw you curveballs.
Posted on 08/17/2025 3:53:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
A Russian model and former beauty queen has succumbed to her injuries after an elk smashed through the windshield of her car early last month.
Kseniya Alexandrova, 30, was in the car with her husband, Ilya, on a highway in Tver Oblast, Russia – the two married only four months before – when the several-hundred-pound animal jumped in front of their Porsche.
She had been in a coma with severe brain injuries, People and Russian news outlets reported.
Her husband, who was behind the wheel, survived. “From the moment it jumped out to the impact, a split second passed. I didn’t have time to do anything,” Alexandrova’s husband explained, according to the report.
The accident occurred on July 5th as the couple were driving home from Rzhev. The former beauty queen was immediately unconscious after impact, the husband told reporters.
“Everything was covered in blood,” her husband said.
Other drivers stopped to help. But despite a quick response by emergency services and transport to a hospital in Moscow, the head trauma eventually proved fatal on August 12.
Alexandrova represented Russia in the Miss Universe pageant in 2017. According to US Weekly, she was also first runner-up in the Miss Russia competition that same year.
The model was also a practicing psychologist with a degree from Moscow Pedagogical State University, according to a 2022 post on her Instagram page. She was still working as a therapist up until the accident, US Weekly reported.
Alexandrova’s modeling agency, Modus Vivendis, shared the news of her death in a statement this week. “Kseniya was bright [and] talented,” it read, translated from Russian in the People report. “She knew how to inspire, support and give warmth to everyone who was around. For us, she will forever remain a symbol of beauty, kindness and inner strength.”
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Poor woman and her newly wed husband. She was really smart, accomplished and beautiful. Life sure can throw you curveballs.
I hear there are a lot of deaths in Alaska from moose going through windshields.
Rest In Peace, Kseniya.
Lost a friend post-high school when she hit a cow in the road and had the same awful outcome. Her kids in the back seat were OK, but how horrible was that for them to have to live with!?
We can fool ourselves all we want; Nature Always Wins. Always.
I imagine the animal was more what we would call a moose. They don’t have elk like ours in Russia.
I take it back, they do have very similar elk!
How sad! Deer jump out a lot in my neck of the woods in a split second and it’s scary as hell on a dark road.
An “elk” in Europe is what we call a “moose” in North America.
Our North American “elk” are smaller animals not present in Europe.
Or something like that.
It’s very confusing and I could be wrong.
Any time you have a 1300 plus pound animal go
through your windshield you have a problem!
be a cow, a horse, or whatever.
Problem was so prevalent in Hawaii,
(I live on the Big island right next one of the largest cattle ranches in America, Parker ranch), under the law here you are responsible if one of your cattle
gets out and a car hits it!
I have very good fencing. I normally keep one or two head of cattle as pets to keep the grass down.
That has to be interesting living next to one of the more famous cattle ranches in America. More power to you being one of the few non-lefties remaining in Hawai’i.
A friend’s cousin was killed when his car hit a camel while driving on a rural Saudi Arabian highway.
It’s tragic when your favorite models are discontinued.
I’ve always driven motorcycles.... there are lots of things to worry about on a bike but where I go, deer are at the top of the list.
In some countries, the term “elk” is used to refer to what others call a “moose.”
In parts of Europe (especially Scandinavia and Russia), the term “elk” is commonly used to refer to what North Americans call a moose (Alces alces). For example, in Sweden, the animal is called “älg,” and in Russian, it’s “лось” (los), both translating to “elk” in English.
I started up a new large coal fired power plant in a paper mill in Snowflake, AZ back in the mid 70s. It was a 50 mile drive to my rental house in the White Mountains to the south. Sometimes, we’d leave the plant at 11 pm or later and I could cut almost ten miles off the drive by cutting across ten miles of dirt road — but it was open range! I put aircraft landing lights on my front bumper so I could spot a black cow a half mile off on a new moon night. The Arizona high desert on a moonless night is pitch black. I could do 60-70 mph on that road but still wasn’t over-driving those lights! I never did hit a cow.
I watch a lot of those. I’ve learned that if you’re driving a Lada, you’re not going to survive.
Many moons ago while on the way to work one morning I watched a large Bambi come running out of a neighborhood that has big walls to keep the traffic noise away from the houses at a road intersecting the main road and it made it across the 3 lanes of opposing traffic, the median and the first lane on our side and then tried to leap over a full sized truck and it didn’t come out the other side but crashed through the front windshield and then the back windshield landing in the truck bed. Traffic was moving at 65-70 mph. I was not in a position to stop and help without getting rear ended so I don’t know what happened but I’m going to say it probably wasn’t good.
If at highway speeds you perceive that you can’t avoid hitting the beast, turn straight into it.
Protect yourself and your passengers with all that heavy, momentum absorbing hardware between you and the center of your front bumper.
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