Tatiana Okunevskaya

Actress

Birthday March 3, 1914

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Zavidovo, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire

DEATH DATE 2002-5-15, Moscow, Russia (88 years old)

Nationality Russia

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1914

Tatiana Kirillovna Okunevskaya (Татьяна Кирилловна Окуневская; 3 March 1914 – 15 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actress.

Okunevskaya was born in Zavidovo, Moscow Governorate, in 1914.

1933

She was active in Soviet film and theatre from 1933 to 1948, whereupon she was raped by Lavrentiy Beria at his residence, arrested for alleged anti-state agitation and propaganda, and sentenced to ten years labour at Steplag.

Beria picked her up under the pretense of bringing her to perform for the Politburo.

Instead, he took her to his dacha where he offered to free her father and grandmother from NKVD 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 in the Gulag, which she survived.

1954

Following her release in 1954, she returned to the theatre, where she worked until 1959.

1959

From 1959 to 1979, she worked as an artist for Gosconcert (the Soviet State Concert Company) and Mosconcert (its Moscow equivalent).

2000

Her previously robust health declined rapidly due to complications from surgery in 2000, ending in her death in Moscow in 2002 at the age of 88.