Victoria Fyodorova

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Fyodorova in Yulya's Diary (1980)

Victoria Fyodorova (formerly Pouy; January 18, 1946 – September 5, 2012)[1][2] was a Russian-American actress and author. She was born shortly after World War II to Jackson Tate (1898–1978), then a captain in the United States Navy, and Russian actress Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981), who had a brief affair before Tate was expelled from Moscow by Joseph Stalin. Victoria Fyodorova wrote the 1979 book, The Admiral's Daughter, which was about her experience attempting to reunite with her father.

Early life

Fyodorova's mother, Zoya Fyodorova, was a well-known

Secret Police.[3] Victoria was allegedly fathered on the day of World War II end celebration May 9, 1945.[4]

When Stalin (or

Kazakh SSR
until she was 8 years old, when her mother was released, not long after Stalin's death in 1953.

Victoria was also an actress in Russia, as her mother had been. She appeared in a number of well-received films, including a 1970 adaptation of Crime and Punishment. She was married briefly and divorced.[3]

Reunion

University of Connecticut professor Irene Kirk learned of Victoria's story in 1959 and spent years trying to find Tate in the United States.[3] Tate was unaware of having a daughter and of his former lover's arrest and imprisonment. When Kirk found Tate in 1973,[5] she carried correspondence back and forth between the two.

In 1974, Tate began a campaign to convince the Soviet government to allow his daughter to travel to see him. She was granted permission and arrived in the United States in March 1975 on a three-month

Pan American World Airways; and they married on June 7, 1975, in Stamford, Connecticut, days before her visa was to expire.[3][5][6] Their son, Christopher Alexander Fyodor Pouy, was born on May 3, 1976.[6] Zoya Fyodorova petitioned the Soviet government and was allowed to travel to the U.S. to be with her daughter for the birth. Zoya died from a gunshot wound in 1981 under suspicious circumstances.[7] The murder case was not solved and perpetrator was not found.[7] Some alleged that KGB was behind it.[citation needed
]

Later life

Victoria Fyodorova settled in

Greenwich Township, Pennsylvania.[9][10]

Selected filmography

Bibliography

  • Fyodorova, Victoria; Frankel, Haskel (1979). The Admiral's Daughter. Delacorte Press. p. 372.
    ISBN 0-440-00366-0
    .

See also

References

  1. ^ "Soviet Actress Was Figure in Incident of Wartime Romance". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. 1981-12-14. p. C2.
  2. ^ "Актриса Виктория Федорова скончалась в США". 14 September 2012.
  3. ^
    New York Times
    . p. 8.
  4. OCLC 36120341
    .
  5. ^
    Washington Post
    . 1978-07-21. p. B4.
  6. ^ a b c Victoria F. Pouy v. Frederick Pouy, FA89 0101955 S (Superior Court of Connecticut, Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk, at Stamford 1990-06-25).
  7. ^ a b Victoria Fyodorova profile, nytimes.com, November 29, 1985; accessed September 8, 2015.
  8. ^ Thomas, Bob (1975-11-28). "Another Page in Fyodorova Saga". Los Angeles Times. p. E31.
  9. ^ Strickland, Sandy (2014-06-30). "Call Box: Admiral's daughter came from Russia with love and stayed in U.S. until her death". Retrieved 2016-12-28.
  10. ^ Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service (2012-09-14). "Daughter of Famous Soviet Actress Dies in the US". Retrieved 2016-12-28.
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