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Natasza
Natasza Natasza occupies an interesting cultural borderland in Poland — a Russian-inflected name that feels both familiar (through Tolstoy) and distinctly Polish in its spelling. Characters named Natasza in Polish fiction often have a slightly bohemian, artistically inclined quality, women who bridge the Russian and Polish literary traditions.
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