Victoria Fyodorova
Victoria Fyodorova | |
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| Born | January 18, 1946 |
| Nationality | Russian, American |
Victoria Fyodorova (born January 18, 1946)[1] is a Russian-born American actress who was born at the end of the World War II to Admiral Jackson Tate (1898 - 1978) and Zoya Fyodorova (1912-1981), a Russian actress with whom he had a brief affair before being expelled from Moscow by Joseph Stalin.
Fyodorova wrote the 1979 book The Admiral's Daughter about her experience attempting to reunite with her father.
Early life
Fyodorova's mother, Zoya Fyodorova, was a well-known Soviet actress starting in the 1930s. In 1945, she met United States Navy Captain Jackson R. Tate, a deputy attaché who was stationed in Moscow, and they had an affair. Tate was warned to end the relationship by secret police.[2] When Soviet leader Joseph Stalin learned of the affair, Tate was declared an unwelcome person and expelled from Moscow, and Zoya Fyodorova was arrested and sent to Siberia for 8 years. Their daughter, Victoria, was born January 8, 1946, and was named for V-E Day.
Fyodorova lived with her mother's sister in Kazakhstan until she was 8 years old,[2] when her mother was released from jail after Stalin's death.
She was an actress in Russia, appearing, as her mother had, in a number of well-received films, including a 1970 adaptation of Crime and Punishment. She was married briefly and divorced.[2]
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.[2] Tate was unaware of having a daughter and of his former lover's arrest and imprisonment. When Kirk found Tate in 1973,[3] she carried correspondence between the two back and forth to Moscow. In 1974, Tate began a campaign to convince the Soviet government to allow his daughter to travel to see him in the United States. She was granted permission and arrived in the United States in March 1975 on a three-month travel visa. She spent several weeks in seclusion in Florida with her father.
While in the United States, she met Frederick Pouy, a pilot for Pan American World Airways, and they married on June 7, 1975, in Stamford, Connecticut, days before her visa was to expire.[2][3][4] Their son, Christopher Alexander Fyodor Pouy, was born 3 May 1976.[4] Fyodorova's mother petitioned the Soviet government and was allowed to travel to be with her daughter for the birth.
Later life
Fyodorova settled in Stamford, Connecticut. Working with agent Paul Kohner, she appeared as a Russian doctor in an episode of Medical Center in 1975,[5] and in the 1985 movie Target.
She and Pouy were divorced in 1990.[4]
Bibliography
- Fyodorova, Victoria; Frankel, Haskel (1979). The Admiral's Daughter. Delacorte Press. p. 372. ISBN 0440003660.
See also
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- "Vicky, the Admiral's Daughter, Comes from Russia with Love". People. 1975-05-05.
References
- ^ Associated Press (1981-12-14). "Soviet Actress Was Figure in Incident of Wartime Romance". Los Angeles Times. p. C2.
- ^ a b c d e Clarity, James F. (1975-01-27). "A Soviet Child of War Wants to Visit U.S. Father". New York Times. p. 8.
- ^ a b "Adm. Jackson Tate Dies, Won Fight For Russian-Born Daughter to Visit". Washington Post. 1978-07-21. p. B4.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ a b c (Court case). Superior Court of Connecticut, Judicial District of Stamford/Norwalk, at Stamford. 1990-06-25.
{{cite book}}: Missing or empty|title=(help); Unknown parameter|litigants=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|opinion=ignored (help) - ^ Thomas, Bob (1975-11-28). "Another Page in Fyodorova Saga". Los Angeles Times. p. E31.