- "Where are we going?"
"Home."
"Mommy, you're silly. We just left home." - ―Yelena Belova and Melina Vostokoff[src]
The Rowley Residence is the house in Mount Vernon, Ohio in which Alexei Shostakov, Melina Vostokoff, Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova lived in while impersonating an American family known as the Rowleys.
History[]
- "The best part of my life was fake. And none of you told me."
- ―Yelena Belova[src]
In 1992, Alexei Shostakov was assigned by Dreykov to live undercover in Mount Vernon, Ohio in order to infiltrate the North Institute. To maintain his cover, Shostakov lived in a temporary home with a fake family consisting of Melina Vostokoff as his wife, and Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova as their daughters. The pretend family lived in the house for the course of Shostakov's mission. During this time, Shostakov and Vostokoff developed real romantic feelings for each other, while Romanoff and Belova came to view the family and home as authentic.
In 1995, Shostakov completed his mission, setting the North Institute on fire and blowing the family's cover. Shostakov went home to retrieve his family and evacuate the house before law enforcement arrived.[2]
