Tamara Adamovna Kolb CHERNASHOVA
1927 - 1980 (52 years)-
Name Tamara Adamovna Kolb CHERNASHOVA Birth 15 Jul 1927 Russia 
Gender Female Death 15 Apr 1980 London, England [1] Burial Gunnersbury Cemetery, Acton, Greater London, England [2] Person ID I6630 bmds Last Modified 14 May 2020
Family Eddy Lanier King GILMORE, b. 28 May 1907, Selma, Dallas, Alabama d. 6 Oct 1967, London, Greater London, England (Age 60 years) Marriage 13 Jul 1943 Age at Marriage Tamara : 16 years old | Eddy : 36 years old. Children 3 daughters + 1 . Victoria Wendell GILMORE, b. 14 Aug 1944, Moscow, Russia (Age 80 years)2 . Susanna Hager GILMORE, b. 16 Jan 1950, Moscow, Russia d. 28 Apr 2015, Estepona, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain (Age 65 years)+ 3 . Natasha Tamara GILMORE, b. 3 Feb 1957, Moscow, Russia d. 6 May 2011, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (Age 54 years)Family ID F2121 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Birth - 15 Jul 1927 - Russia 
Death - 15 Apr 1980 - London, England 
Burial - - Gunnersbury Cemetery, Acton, Greater London, England Pin Legend 
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Notes - In 1968, she wrote Me and My American Husband. [“When the late Eddy Gilmore, the well-known AP correspondent, was stationed in Russia during World War II, he met, and fell in love with, a young Russian girl named Tamara Adamovna Kolb-Chernashova. She, too, soon fell in love with him, even though she thought his name sounded funny and was hard to pronounce. That was twenty-five years ago, and in the time since then, Tamara and Eddy Gilmore led a thoroughly exciting, if not always comfortable, life together. This book, Tamara’s memoirs, tells of the people and places they knew in the past quarter century…”]
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Sources - [S4] Obituary.
Tamara Gilmore – Ex-Bolshoi Ballerina Married American Newman After Cold War Romance
LONDON (AP) — Tamara Gilmore, Russian-born widow of Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press correspondent Eddy Gilmore whom she married in a famous Cold War romance, died Tuesday after a long illness. She was 52. Mrs. Gilmore was a Bolshoi ballet dancer when, in 1942, she met Mr. Gilmore. He was AP Moscow bureau chief at the time. She was banished to Siberia because of her association with a foreigner, but later, through the intervention of Wendell Willkie, the 1940 U.S. Republican party presidential nominee, she returned to Moscow. It was then that she and Mr. Gilmore were married in 1943, when she was 16.
Tamara Kolb-Chernashova had been a student at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater Ballet School and then was a member of the Boshoi’s corps de ballet. After she was banished to Siberia, Mr. Gilmore flew to America and personally appealed to Mr. Willkie who sent a telegram to Joseph Stalin. At Mr. Willkie’s request, the Soviet premier relented. Mr. Gilmore told the story of his romance with Tamara in a book, “Me and My Russian Wife”. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made a film about the romance, “Never Let Me Go,” starring Clarck Gable and Gene Tierney.
The couple left the Soviet Union in 1953. They settled in London, and Mr. Gilmore traveled widely, reporting and lecturing. He won the Pulitzer in 1947 for his reporting on the Soviet Union. Mr. Gilmore died in London in 1967 at age 60.
- [S4] Obituary.