Zoya Fyodorova

Zoya Fyodorova
Born
Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova

21 December [O.S. 8 December] 1907
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died11 December 1981(1981-12-11) (aged 73)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
OccupationActress

Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova (also Fedorova) (Russian: Зоя Алексеевна Федорова; 21 December [O.S. 8 December] 1907 – 11 December 1981)[1] was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946.[2] Having rejected the advances of NKVD police head Lavrentiy Beria, the affair was exposed[3] resulting, initially, in a death sentence later reprieved to work camp imprisonment in Siberia; she was released after eight years. She was murdered in her Moscow apartment in 1981.[4] The year before Fyodorova was murdered, she appeared in Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.

  1. ^ "Fyodorova, Film Star, Is Slain". The New York Times. 1981-12-16. Retrieved 2011-07-01.
  2. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 225–226. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  3. ^ "Life Has Been A Drama for Russian-born Actress". Chicago Tribune. 1985-06-21.
  4. ^ Bond, Charlotte (2018-09-17). "Soviet Actress and U.S. Naval Officer – True Story of Love in the Cold War". WAR HISTORY ONLINE. Retrieved 2019-11-28.