Anissina/Peizerat teamed up in early 1993. Both skaters have medaled with other partners at Junior World Championships. Anissina skated with Ilia Averbukh for Russia (today a sucessful ice dancer with partner and wife Lobacheva) and Peizerat with Marina Morel (who quit the skating scene after she split with him) for France. When Anissina lost her partner to Lobacheva, she wrote a letter to Peizerat, whom she rembered from junior competitions. Peizerat invited Anissina to his hometown Lyon (France) and they started skating together. Anissina's mother was an international pair skater in the former Soviet Union, and her father Viatcheslav Anissin is an ice hockey coach in Moscow. Peizerat's father is an official in the French Skating Federation.