Regina Zbarskaya

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Regina
Zbarskaya
Regina Zbarskaya is a
famous Soviet fashion
model.

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Seventeen-year-old
Regina came
to conquer the
capital in 1953.
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Paris Match
magazine called
her the Kremlin's
most beautiful
weapon.
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Dreaming of a son
as smart as her
father and a
daughter as
beautiful as her
mother, Regina
faced opposition
from her husband,
who saw her as his
muse rather than a
woman who washed
diapers.
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Couturier
Vyacheslav
Zaitsev cut the
mannequin's
hair to look like
a page and
created the
image of an
Italian beauty
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Lev Zbarsky
soon left his
wife for
Lyudmila
Maksakova
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Having recovered
from a severe
depression,
Zbarskaya
returned to the
catwalk with the
help of the deputy
director of the
House of Models.
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Failures in
career,
failures on the
personal front
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On her third
attempt, Regina
committed
suicide with
sleeping pills in
November 1987,
at the age of 51.
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