Soon after recovering from her traumatic ordeal, Masha was sent to an orphanage where she prayed that a good family would come to rescue her. Her own mother tried to kill her when she was only 4 years old by stabbing her in the back of the neck with a kitchen knife.
She was born in southern Russia to an alcoholic mother and a father she never knew.
At 13 years old, Masha has already survived the unthinkable.
