Tatiana Kirillovna Okunevskaya
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Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

and

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n actress.

Life

Okunevskaya was born in

Zavidovo Zavidovo (russian: Зави́дово) is a village ('' selo'') in Konakovsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is used as an official residence place for the President of Russia. During the Soviet era it was described as the "Politburo hunti ...

, Moscow Governorate, in 1914. She was active in Soviet film and theatre from 1933 to 1948, whereupon she was raped by

Lavrentiy Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; rus, Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, Lavréntiy Pávlovich Bériya, p=ˈbʲerʲiə; ka, ლავრენტი ბერია, tr, ; – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolsheviks ...

at his residence, arrested for alleged anti-state agitation and propaganda, and sentenced to ten years labour at

Steplag Steplag or Stepnoy Camp Directorate, Special Camp No. 4 (Степлаг (Степной лагерь), Особлаг (Особый лагерь) № 4) was an MVD special camp for political prisoners within the Gulag system of the Soviet Union. ...

.Жертвы политического террора в СССР
/ref> Beria picked her up under the pretense of bringing her to perform for the Politburo. Instead, he took her to his

dacha A dacha ( rus, дача, p=ˈdatɕə, a=ru-dacha.ogg) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of post-Soviet countries, including Russia. A cottage (, ') or shack serving as a family's main or only home, or an outbu ...

where he offered to free her father and grandmother from

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

prison if she submitted. He then raped her telling her "scream or not, it doesn't matter." Beria already knew her relatives had been executed months earlier. Okunevskaya was arrested shortly after the encounter and sentenced to

solitary confinement Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which the inmate lives in a single cell with little or no meaningful contact with other people. A prison may enforce stricter measures to control contraband on a solitary prisoner and use additi ...

in the Gulag, which she survived. Following her release in 1954, she returned to the theatre, where she worked until 1959. From 1959 to 1979, she worked as an artist for Gosconcert (the Soviet State Concert Company) and Mosconcert (its Moscow equivalent). Her previously robust health declined rapidly due to complications from surgery in 2000, ending in her death in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

in 2002 at the age of 88.

Selected filmography

* '' Hectic Days'' (1935) * ''

It Happened in the Donbas ''It Happened in the Donbas'' (russian: Это было в Донбассе, Eto bylo v Donbasse) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Lukov based on a screenplay by Sergei Antonov and Mikhail Blajman. Produced by Soyuzdetfilm. Pl ...

'' (1945) * ''

The Captivating Star of Happiness ''The Captivating Star of Happiness'' (russian: Звезда пленительного счастья, Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya, The Star of Fascinating Happiness) is a 1975 Soviet historical drama. The title is an allusion to a line from a ...

'' (1975) * ''

House for the Rich ''House for the Rich'' (russian: Дом для богатых, Dom dlya bogatykh) is a 2000 Russian drama film directed by Vladimir Fokin. Plot The film is set in the apartment of an old Moscow mansion. In the middle of the 19th century, the squan ...

'' (2000)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Okunevskaya, Tatiana 1914 births 2002 deaths People from Konakovsky District People from Moscow Governorate Russian nobility Soviet actresses Gulag detainees Inmates of Lefortovo Prison Honored Artists of the RSFSR Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery Rape in Russia Lavrentiy Beria