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Name : Volodimir Borisovich Tarasenko (English: Victor Shaw)
Occupation: Farmer, lumber trader, aspiring politician.
Biography: Born in 1811 in Ukraine to a family of peasants, he lived the life. Drunken bar fights, which may or may not have had fatal endings, robbing a stagecoach full of money, sleeping with a couple of farm daughters, and a stint in the army. In 1839, he had to run from a couple of angry farmers and equally angry policemen, he hopped on a boat and joined the first shipping company that hired. Working as a stoker first and foremost, but also doing other jobs around ships. He grew tired of a life on the ocean wave in the summer of 1841, and hopped off in New York, after which he wandered for two years in which he learned English and gradually ventured westwards, ending up in the Californian Independence Kerfuffle. Doing the odd fighting, he ended up staking claims in the hills southwest of Lake Tahoe, where he built a logging camp with a small sawmill in the forests which provides the majority of his small income, and southeast of Salt Lake he owns a farm where he spends most of his time, farming and writing.
Victor lacks a formal education, but this is not to say he isn't a wise man. Gregarious and charismatic, he knows how to sell the stuff he grows or produces, and he's a welcomed face in the community with political ambitions encouraged by his surroundings. However, whilst he is a succesfull entrepreneur, he lacks legal knowledge and has a distaste for paperwork which may very well bite him in the arse. Furthermore, he is careful to hide his origins and past, fearing discrimination and discredit.
Name : Volodimir Borisovich Tarasenko (English: Victor Shaw)
Occupation: Farmer, lumber trader, aspiring politician.
Biography: Born in 1811 in Ukraine to a family of peasants, he lived the life. Drunken bar fights, which may or may not have had fatal endings, robbing a stagecoach full of money, sleeping with a couple of farm daughters, and a stint in the army. In 1839, he had to run from a couple of angry farmers and equally angry policemen, he hopped on a boat and joined the first shipping company that hired. Working as a stoker first and foremost, but also doing other jobs around ships. He grew tired of a life on the ocean wave in the summer of 1841, and hopped off in New York, after which he wandered for two years in which he learned English and gradually ventured westwards, ending up in the Californian Independence Kerfuffle. Doing the odd fighting, he ended up staking claims in the hills southwest of Lake Tahoe, where he built a logging camp with a small sawmill in the forests which provides the majority of his small income, and southeast of Salt Lake he owns a farm where he spends most of his time, farming and writing.
Victor lacks a formal education, but this is not to say he isn't a wise man. Gregarious and charismatic, he knows how to sell the stuff he grows or produces, and he's a welcomed face in the community with political ambitions encouraged by his surroundings. However, whilst he is a succesfull entrepreneur, he lacks legal knowledge and has a distaste for paperwork which may very well bite him in the arse. Furthermore, he is careful to hide his origins and past, fearing discrimination and discredit.