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]