Rufina Pukhova

Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova (Russian: Руфина Ивановна Пухова; 1 September 1932 – 17 May 2021[1]) was a Russian memoir writer. She was the last wife of Kim Philby,[2] a KGB double agent who rose in rank through British Intelligence along with the Cambridge Five.[3] She met Philby through George Blake. Pukhova and Philby married in 1971.[4] She is the author of The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years (2000).[5] Pukhova was born in Moscow to a Russian father and a Polish mother.[6]

  1. ^ "Умерла вдова советского разведчика Руфина Пухова-Филби" Accessed July 15th 2021. https://theworldnews.net/ru-news/umerla-vdova-sovetskogo-razvedchika-rufina-pukhova-filbi
  2. ^ Higgins, Andrew (14 July 1993). "Kim Philby 'driven into rage by sight of Brezhnev'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 April 2011.
  3. ^ "BBC - History - World Wars: The Cambridge Spies". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  4. ^ Philby, Harold Adrian Russell [Kim] (1912–1988), spy by Nigel Clive in Dictionary of National Biography online (accessed 11 November 2007)
  5. ^ Persico, Joseph E. (14 May 2000). "Out in the Cold". The New York Times. p. 14. Archived from the original on 7 August 2009.
  6. ^ "odnb"