1515) Rufina Pukhova

Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova (1932 - 2021). Russian memoir writer.

She was the last wife of Kim Philby, a KGB double agent who rose in rank through British Intelligence along with the Cambridge Five. She met Philby through George Blake. Pukhova and Philby married in 1971. She is the author of The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years (2000). Pukhova was born in Moscow to a Russian father and a Polish mother.

Before meeting Kim Philby, Pukhova worked as a copy editor in Russia.

 

- "Rufina was a red-haired beauty of 38 when she met Kim... She is now 61, with her red hair thinning." https://www-independent-co-uk

 

- "The funeral, attended by about 200 mourners led by Philby’s red-haired Russian wife, Rufa..." https://www.latimes.com/.../la-xpm-1988-05-13-mn-3510...

 

 

 

(PS: as you probably know, the name Rufina comes from the Latin rufus, red-haired).