Russian girl names for twin girls?

[durden405.livejournal.com]

What are some of your favorite russian girl names? I like Irina and Alina for twin girls, but I feel like the names sound a little harsh.

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[ma-ee-uh.livejournal.com]

Ksenia

[blueorange94.livejournal.com]

Ekaterina and Anya.

[pirahan.livejournal.com]

Daria (dasha), I like nastya the diminutive of Anastasia, Tatiana, and Lena

[wolf-shadow.livejournal.com]

Anastasia (if said the Russian way) > Nastia
Yekaterina > Katia
Yelena > Lena
Pelageia
Polina (Pal-EE-nah)
Viktorina > Vika (Vee-kah)
Irina > Ira (Ear-ah)
Olga > Olya

Tatiana was spoilt for me by a girl on my year abroad, but another girl gave me a love of names with the diminutive Yana.

I love the ye(е) and i(и) sounds though, so most of my preferences have those letters in the original. I probably won't feel able to use most of them though since most of England can't pronounce the names properly (E.g. Ivan is EE-van, not Eye-van to me). :)

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

I love Ksenia.

Also, I really like Alina, it's pretty.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

How are those harsh?

[breezy-boo.livejournal.com]

My favourites are Alena and inessa. We are most likely naming our baby girl, who should be here any day!!, Alena, but inessa is our back up
Klara is pretty too, as is Raina or inna.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Anastasia
Yelena
Natalia
Nastasia
Tatiana
Katerina/Ekaterina/Yekaterina
Mila
Odessa
Zaneta