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Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya (Russian: Зоя Ивановна Воскресенская; in marriage – Rybkina, Рыбкина; 28 April [o.s. 15] 1907 – 8 January 1992) was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for children.
Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya (Russian: Зоя Ивановна Воскресенская; in marriage – Rybkina, Рыбкина; April 28 [o.s. 15], 1907, Uzlovaya, Tula Governorate, - January 8, 1992, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for ...
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- April 12, 1982
- April 28, 1907
Zoya Voskresenskaya has 20 books on Goodreads with 130 ratings. Zoya Voskresenskaya’s most popular book is Mother.
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Source: Fine Art Images/Vostock-Photo She performed to the accompaniment of Sergei Rachmaninoff, while Tsar Nicholas II called her a “Kursk nightingale.” Born to a peasant family, Plevitskaya went from being a nun to becoming one of the most famous singers of her time. After emigrating, Plevitskaya married an exiled Russian general, Nikolai Skoblin...
Source: Vladimir Savostianov/TASS In 1929, 22-year-old Voskresenskaya joined the foreign section of the OGPU (Joint State Political Directorate). Soon, the beautiful young woman was invited to travel to Geneva to become a German general’s mistress. Later she recalled: “I replied: “Alright, I’ll go, I’ll become his mistress, if it has to be done, bu...
Margarita Konenkova (left) with Einsteins in their garden, Prinston, 1935. Source: TASS Prominent sculptor Sergey Konenkov and his wife Margarita arrived in New York in 1923 to take part in an exhibition of Soviet art. Their stay ended up lasting 22 years: While “the Russian Rodin” worked on his sculptures, Margarita set up a salon in his workshop ...
On one day in late 1940, visitors to the railway station in occupied Warsaw saw a woman disembark from a train to be embraced by a man waiting for her with flowers on the platform. The man was the business manager of the Russian embassy, Ivan Vasilyev (real name Pyotr Gudimovich), and the woman was his wife Marya, whom in fact he was seeing for the...
Source: IvanFM/Wikipedia.org In the fall of 1941, a special task force under the Interior Ministry was training saboteurs in the event that Moscow was captured by Germans. One of the trainees was 23-year-old Anna Kamayeva, who was being prepared for a special mission: to assassinate Hitler. In the end, Moscow was not surrendered to the Nazis and Ka...
Jun 13, 2022 · Zoya Voskresenskaya. Publication date. 1984. Topics. illustrated books, children's books, soviet children's literature, story books, lenin, russian, biography. Publisher. Malysh Publishers. Collection. mir-titles; additional_collections. Language. English. Dear reader!
ZOYA VOSKRESENSKAYA. Topics SOVIET CHILDREN'S BOOK IN ENGLISH, KIDS LITERATURE, RADUGA, MALYASH, MIR PUBLICATION Collection ArvindGupta; JaiGyan.
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This chapter focuses on literary fiction of Zoya Voskresenskaya-Rybkina (ZVR), and mentions the main events of her life in Soviet intelligence to provide the context for understanding her fictional works whenever necessary.
