Candid Miss — Teen Crimea Naturist

“We don’t want a beauty queen,” explains head judge Olena, a retired dancer who wears only a stopwatch and a whistle. “We want a girl who has forgotten she is being watched.”

Judge Olena wiped a tear from her eye. “That,” she whispered, “is candid .” Candid Miss Teen Crimea Naturist

This year’s winner is 17-year-old Anya K. (last names withheld for obvious internet-safety reasons), a lanky, freckled high school student from Simferopol with a shock of ginger hair, a healing scrape on her left knee, and a laugh that sounds like a rattling tractor engine. “We don’t want a beauty queen,” explains head

Welcome to the first annual “Candid Miss Teen Crimea Naturist” pageant—a competition that its founder, 74-year-old retired philosophy professor and avid nudist Dmitri Volkov, insists is “neither a pageant, nor about nudity, but about the truth of self .” (last names withheld for obvious internet-safety reasons), a

She then borrowed a towel, wrapped it around her shoulders like a superhero cape, and ran off to find the ice cream vendor.