Svet and the City
You can call Svetlana Maksimovoskaya an entrepreneurial Russian immigrant. But it might be easier to just call her madam. Kurt talks to the proprietor of the St. Petersburg House of Discreet Pleasure, who’s now the star of a new series on HDNet called “Svetlana.” (She’s really the alter ego of comedian and writer Iris Bahr.)
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