The Before
1860	Upon Marigold's marriage to Konstantin Ivanov, the Englishwoman is bestowed the surname Ivanova. Apparently, this is a tradition in Russia. Any daughters to the couple will obtain her new surname, and any sons would receive her husband's.
September of 1863	The eldest son is born.
And Then There Were Three
1864	The triplets are born. While publicly, the birth order is Sophia, then Lydia, and finally Angela, they were born identical and were hard to tell apart as babies, so there may have been a switch or two through their early years. If it weren't for their current class difference and vastly different personalities, it really wouldn't matter.
1865-1874	Sophia shows her first noticeable sign of magic in 1869, charming her favorite lullaby tune to play on the piano. Overall, the triplets get along through childhood. But as the years pass, they slowly drift apart. Along with their older brother, the sisters are joined by several more siblings by this time, and each starts favoring those siblings over each other. They drift to their own interests and opinions, with Sophia most likely to get in trouble for loudly expressing her preferences, or get stuck climbing too high in a tree. It's perhaps for thi\s reason that their parents decided to enroll the girls in ballet: in part for some blazing peace and quiet!, but also to create a more productive diversion for Sophia's theatrics. Ballet is seen as an illustrious hobby, particularly from Eastern Europe where their father is from.
A Crowded Education
1875	The triplets are off to Hogwarts, and bless, they can finally be easily differentiated by their house robes. Lydia is placed in Ravenclaw (not to Sophia's surprise), and Angela is put in Slytherin (with a spot of envy Sophia will never admit, for it was one of the Sorting Hat's two choices for her). Sophia gets sorted into Gryffindor, and her parents and closest siblings are not that surprised themselves. Sophia was never scared of anything, and when decided on what she wanted, she never deviated no matter how hard it got. That was exactly what happened when Sophia insisted to her family that she wanted to continue ballet training outside of just the summer. After the girls show off some of their natural talent to a well-known tutor, their family manages to arrange for the tutor to make special trips to Hogwarts on weekends to train the "wonder triplets".
1877	That summer, Edward dies in the muggle riots. The family moves in the chaos. Sophia gets uncharacteristically depressive (Edward was one of her closest siblings), and her father encourages his daughters to keep channeling this energy into arts, music or ballet. Sophia takes strongly to this, and her grief enables her to make a stunning impression with the ballet tutor. Soon enough, Sophia ramps up her training to multiple times a week for her remaining school years while Angela quit, and Lydia tried to balance practice with classwork. That year, Sophia takes up music and art lessons, along with Divination, History of Magic, and Arithmancy.
1880	Her fifth year turned out to be her final year at Hogwarts. Sophia has a good knack for Charms, DADA, History, and Herbology, and generally receives good grades to pursue these courses at the NEWT level. But her focus is elsewhere. That summer she debuts in her first leading ballerina solo in a notable London theatre. Her mother does not come to the debut - fearful of any Muggles in attendance - though her father, and a few siblings, attend with delight. Sophia receives rave reviews for her performance, even the papers mentioned it! Following this, Sophia is invited to continue her studies at the esteemed Imperial Ballet school in St. Petersburg under a premier tutor.
The Ballerina Life
1882	While her sisters spend the following two years worried about NEWTs and debuts, Sophia performs for the Tsar of Russia routinely and travels with her ballet troupe to places like France, Italy, and Austria. She writes to her father and a few siblings intermittently, but training is demanding, and hours long. It is still not entirely uncommon for young men to accompany the troupe as choreography students, character dancers, or stagehands at varying parts of the tour. In Denmark, Sophia meets her first true love: a dance choreographer in training, Jacob Voss. Where most young couples let this lead them to trouble, the two of them are a match-made-perfect: ruthlessly devoted to their careers in art, they'd never give in to such silly distractions, and support each other endlessly. Until now, Sophia's father was really the only one who endorsed and allowed her to pursue what he viewed as a prestigious ballerina career. Once her sisters graduated, however, Sophia quickly lost this leverage. Angela already started courtship, and their Very-English mother demanded Sophia's return should she "fall behind" otherwise. Sophia returns to London, where she sneaks out regularly to keep up ballet training with her former tutor (it was about as ludicrous as it sounds).
1883	Sophia is pursued with great interest by a wonderful suitor who interpreted her stubbornness and world travels as 'vivacious wit'. Sophia rejects him with prejudice (to their mother's great horror). Only the triplets are aware that this is because Sophia is still very much in love and in frequent contact with her boyfriend, Jacob Voss. One night, Sophia sneaks out to meet with Mister Voss, who was visiting London with their ballet troupe. They profess their undying love for one another, but Sophia is too afraid to leave with him (a decision she'll lament present day). Though she doesn't always get along with her sisters, she does not want to impede their future prospects by eloping with this working class man. Jacob understands, but promises to return for her.
Christmas of 1883	Angela gets engaged in a grand ado. Sophia tries to be genuinely happy for her, but she can't help but share to Lydia how depressed she is without her true loves: ballet and Jacob. In a fit of tears that night, Sophia writes to tell Jacob she's ready to leave her family.
The Adult Life
1884	The day after Angela marries, Sophia runs away with Jacob Voss and the two elope. Though ballet is an exciting career with plenty of fame, the pair essentially become part of the working class as artists who live by modest means (certainly with no support from Sophia's family). But they didn't worry about it, because in exchange, they were pursuing their dreams of traveling with the Imperial Ballet troupe. Jacob worked up to being one of the lead choreographers, and the two arrange incredible new dances together. Sophia grows her reputation for ethereal, romantic dance, and is most noticed for her leading role in Les Sylphides.
1886	Sophia and Jacob are in France when she gives birth to their first child, a darling girl named Cosette.
1888	Sophia returns briefly between tours to attend Lydia's wedding, and to welcome Angela's second child. This is the first time the family sees each other in four years, since Sophia's elopement. It is also the first time they meet Mister Jacob Voss -- and their grandaughter Cosette -- and note that Sophia is pregnant with her second. The atmosphere is... tense.
1889	The Voss family happily continue European tours while establishing a homebase in St. Petersburg. Sophia makes a strong recovery after her second child, Julien, though complications will likely prevent her from safely giving birth again. Sophia does not worry about this, for she's in the prime of her career. In the following years, she even performs for the Queen herself. Papers often tout her as having the talent of a potential prima ballerina, the likes of which had never hailed from England before.
1891	On January 2nd, 1891, Jacob and a number of troupe members die tragically in a theater fire in St. Petersburg. It is only by sheer luck that the whole family did not perish: Sophia and her children would ordinarily had been at this rehearsal, but they had stayed back when Cosette felt ill after breakfast.
1892	Staying in St. Petersburg proves to be far too painful for Sophia, and the family's savings - even with donated proceeds from the ballet company - were too modest without more support. Still in mourning, Sophia relocates with her two children back to London early 1892. Sophia plans to pursue her career as a ballerina, staying London-based until she may one day have the means to open her own ballet academy.