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Zoya Fyodorova
Russian actress (1907–1981) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.