Australian Penthouse

From Russia With Laughter… our first ever Pet!

Lillian came to us in a way that would have had Ian Fleming reaching for his pen with new inspiration. A red Venus rising from the waters of Sydney harbour and capturing world headlines.

The high adventure surrounding our first pet of the month, Lillian Gasinska was an incident of Soviet v Western world intrigue. On January 14 this year, the young Russian stewardess squeezed through a porthole of the cruise ship, Leonid Sobinov, into the chill, dark waters of Black Wattle Bay and within 48 hours became the girl in the red bikini, a face, a figure and a name on the front pages of the world’s newspapers.
Photographer: Peter Caine (continue reading…)