Marousha Stanilovska Dagmar Natasha Iliana Romanovitch or better known as Sasha, was a fictional Russian princess in Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. While Orlando is a young man in the court of King James he meets Sasha who has come to England along with the Russian (Muscovite) Ambassador. During a freezing event known i the novel as the Great Frost, Orlando witnesses Sasha ice skating and becomes enraptured with her. Through their shared proficiency in French, the two become close and fall in love. They eventually decide to run away together but on the night of their departure Sasha never comes and in the morning Orlando spots her ship on the horizon having left as soon as the Frost ended. This moment is pivotal to Orlando, it is while dealing with his heartbreak that he experiences his first instance of sleeping for 7 days straight and begins to question and explore his identity as a poet.  Eventually after Orlando's transformation into a woman, he begins to understand better Sasha's decision, "After becoming a woman, Orlando recalls her love for Sasha and begins to appreciate the complexities of a woman's heart in a way that she did not understand when she was a man" (Novels for Students)

Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

"Overview: Orlando: A Biography." Novels for Students, edited by Sara Constantakis, vol. 42, Gale, 2013. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1430007734/LitRC?u=sand82993&sid=LitRC&xid=c9f53dac. Accessed 27 May 2021.