Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova

Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova (born 1 September 1932) is a Russian writer. She was the last wife of Kim Philby,[1] whom she met through George Blake and whom she married in 1971.[2] She is the author of The Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years (2000).[3] Pukhova was born in Moscow to a Russian father and a Polish mother.[2]

References

  1. ^ Higgins, Andrew (14 July 1993). "Kim Philby 'driven into rage by sight of Brezhnev'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5wb3drO0L. 
  2. ^ a b Philby, Harold Adrian Russell [Kim] (1912–1988), spy by Nigel Clive in Dictionary of National Biography online (accessed 11 November 2007)
  3. ^ Persico, Joseph E. (14 May 2000). "Out in the Cold". The New York Times. p. 14. Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5wb40XJRh.