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The tragic love story of a Soviet spy actress and captain of the US Navy

'16.06.2018'

Source: AIF

Zoya Fedorova was born in Petersburg, in the family of a worker and a housewife. In 1918, the family moved to Moscow, where Zoe’s father was offered the job of head of the Kremlin's passport office.

Photo: "Friends", a frame from the film

While still in school, she worked in the drama circle and dreamed of becoming an actress, but at the insistence of her parents, after graduating from school, she went to work as a meter at Gosstrakh, says AIF.

In 1928, Zoya Fyodorova entered the drama school, led by Yuri Zavadsky, and after it was closed, she continued her studies at the school at the Moscow Theater of the Revolution, which she graduated from in 1934. In the same year, she married the cameraman Vladimir Rappoport, whose marriage lasted until 1939. Prior to that, during her student years, her husband was Leonid Weizler (1906-1965), later a famous theater actor who worked at the Theater of Drama and Comedy on Taganka until the end of his life.

As a student, Fedorova starred in the movie "Counter" (1932), but her role was not included in the final version of the picture. Therefore, the official debut of the actress in the movie is considered the film "Harmony" (1934).

Photo: "Friends", a frame from the film

All-Union popularity to Zoe Fedorova came in 1936 year after playing one of the main roles in the film "Friends". Even the arrest of her father in the 1938 year on trumped-up charges could not hurt the brilliant career of an actress: she continued to play leading roles in films.

In the autumn of 1942, Fedorov, being at an exhibition of American cinema in Moscow, met Henry Shapiro, a reporter for the United Press. He introduced her to his circle of friends, among whom was the deputy head of the naval section of the American military mission, Jackson Tate. Their first meeting took place in January 1945, at a reception in a mansion in Spiridonovka. The next day, after taking Tate suddenly invited the actress to the restaurant "Moscow". So began their acquaintance, which grew into love.

This story has generated a lot of rumors for many years to come. For example, some sources will argue that the actress, having become the unofficial agent of the MGB, was specifically introduced to the circle of American diplomats. However, curators Fedorova from the MGB, apparently, did not take into account the fact that she was an ordinary woman who could not resist the charms of an American handsome captain. Apparently, this explains the Fedorova’s pregnancy that followed after meeting Tate. True, the birth of her daughter Victoria (she was born on 18 in January 1946) was never met by her father.

Zoya, Jackson and daughter Victoria. Photo: YouTube katvickas98

After the end of the war, the Americans from our allies turned into enemies, and the connection between Fedorova and Tate could not end with a happy ending. It is not even clear what she was counting on at that time, having decided to give birth to a child from an American diplomat. In July 1945, the actress was suddenly sent on tour to the Crimea, and at the same time, Tate received an order from the Soviet authorities to leave the USSR within the next forty-eight hours. When Fedorova returned to Moscow, her beloved was no longer there.

Jackson Tate received a new assignment to a naval base near San Pedro in California. He did not know about the fate of Fedorova, and did not even imagine that she bore him a child. Tate, in love, almost every month sent letters and inquiries to the USSR. But there was no answer. And when he had already lost all hope of learning anything, a short message sent from Sweden suddenly came to his name. It was reported that Fedorova married a certain composer and happily raising two children with him. Signature under this letter was not.

However, at the end of 1946, Zoe Fedorova was arrested and sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment a year later for espionage. She was released only in 1955 year, after the start of mass rehabilitation of convicts under political articles, and almost immediately returned to the cinema. In the 60 and 70 years, she continued to roll a lot, mostly in character roles.

In 1976, the actress was allowed to visit the US, where she met again with Jackson Tate. After Tate’s death in 1978, she came to the United States twice to her daughter (who emigrated to 1975), and then began collecting documents for leaving there for permanent residence.

11 December 1981 after 14.00 Zoya Fedorova was shot in the back of her head in her three-room apartment 243 No. 4 / 2 at Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The murder has not yet been solved. Among his possible motives are the alleged involvement of the actress in the secret operations of the KGB and its connection to the so-called “diamond mafia”, which consisted mainly of relatives of high-ranking Soviet officials and engaged in buying and reselling jewelry and antiques.

Among the most likely suspects in the murder was one Anatoly Betz, a Odessa raider who was wanted for robbing the widow of the writer Alexei Tolstoy. But Betz was killed in Georgia by the traffic police, and deliberately, and the investigation stalled.

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