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Video: Why the foreign love of the star "Wedding in Malinovka" did not make her happy: Zoya Fedorova
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On December 1, 1909, a beautiful girl was born in St. Petersburg. Subsequently, she will become the famous artist of Soviet cinema Zoya Fedorova. In the meantime, it was the little daughter of a simple hard worker and housewife. When the girl was 9 years old, she and her parents moved to Moscow, where her father was offered a good position. Zoya graduated from the capital's school and decided to devote her life to acting. This was the first step towards a brilliant career. And her career took place, Zoya Fedorova starred in more than 75 feature films and even several commercials! Imagine, in Soviet times there was also advertising, though not in such volumes as it is today. Only now, the actress can hardly be called a happy one.
The daughter of a communist
Zoe's father, a fierce communist and simple worker who managed to rise to the prestigious position of head of the passport department in the Kremlin, did not want his daughter to become an actress at all. That is why he personally found her a "worthy for a Soviet girl" position of an insurance agent.
Zoya did not really like the prospect of tinkering with soulless numbers all her life, therefore, barely waiting for the end of the working day, she rushed headlong to a drama club or to a dance. Excessive party love didn't do any good. The first serious trouble was a close acquaintance with a young military man, who after a while was accused of espionage. Zoya herself then managed to avoid arrest, nevertheless, she found herself under the scrutiny of the NKVD. When the girl turned 21, she nevertheless realized her dream and, contrary to her father's wishes, entered the drama school and then never regretted her decision.
The expressive appearance and talent of Zoya Fedorova helped her quickly achieve success in cinema. She was even awarded two Stalin Prizes.
Zoya Fedorova became truly famous after the release of the feature film "Girlfriends", in which she played one of the main roles.
When Fyodorova's father, a former comrade-in-arms of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin himself, was arrested for speaking unflatteringly about some of the Kremlin workers, Zoya was not touched again. And this, given the mores of the time, was rather strange. It is only known that it was then that the already held actress was shown signs of attention by Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. Whether she reciprocated or not, history is not known. Although, in the light of future events, great doubts arise about mutual feelings.
By the way, at that time Zoya Fedorova was married to cameraman Vladimir Rappoport, who, as he later admitted himself, was frightened by the attention of the NKVD to his wife. Then there was another love - a pilot, he died in 1942. But the main passion, which not only turned her life upside down, but also tragically influenced the fate of her people, was still ahead.
Rise and fall
But if with the career of the actress everything was more than in order, then in her personal life she was not very lucky. After two marriages in 1945, Zoe started an affair with an American diplomat named Jackson Tate and a year later gave him a daughter, Victoria. And all would be fine if Tate had not left the Union for his native America by the time of the birth of his daughter …
Considering that in the former Land of the Soviets, communication with immigrants from foreign countries, especially capitalist ones, was not welcomed, to put it mildly, it is not difficult to imagine how this ended for the actress already known at that time, who, moreover, had long been under the gun of the NKVD.
Her little daughter was not even a year old when her mother was arrested on espionage charges and sent to a pre-trial detention center in Lubyanka. Fedorova shouldn't have hoped for an acquittal. That did not happen. The espionage charge remained in force, and the woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Lfortovo, and then in the Vladimir high security prison.
For this love for a foreigner, not only Zoya paid, but the entire Fedorov family. Their property was confiscated, and each of the relatives was given a separate sentence: Zoya's sister Alexandra was sent to exile for life with her children, another sister Maria was sentenced to 10 years in a forced labor camp in Vorkuta. There she died, not lasting a year before being released. Daughter Victoria was sent to her aunt Zoya in Kazakhstan.
Zoya served 11 years in prison. And 20 after her release, she was given permission to travel to the United States, where she again saw Jackson Tate. This was their last meeting, two years later, Victoria's father was gone. Victoria herself emigrated to America a year before her father's death. Zoya Fedorova visited her daughter several times in the United States after that.
After being treated with her in her native country, Zoya did not really want to stay in the Soviet Union, where everything reminded of the greatest tragedy in her life. Therefore, it is hardly surprising that the former star of the Soviet cinema screen decided to follow her daughter to go permanently to the United States of America. Having made this decision, Fedorova began the process of paperwork for permanent residence in America. However, the mother did not succeed in reuniting with her only daughter. In December 1981, she was shot at point-blank range in her own apartment on Kutuzovsky.
There were cases that it was the KGB officers who “removed” the actress because she “knew a lot”. Others said Fedorova was a member of the so-called “diamond mafia,” which included many high-ranking officials. And it was they who decided to deal with her in this way. The murder of Zoya Fedorova has not been solved to this day. The reason for this is also not known.
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