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Tamara Adamovna Kolb CHERNASHOVA

Female 1927 - 1980  (52 years)


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  • Name Tamara Adamovna Kolb CHERNASHOVA 
    Birth 15 Jul 1927  Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 15 Apr 1980  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Burial Gunnersbury Cemetery, Acton, Greater London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I6630  bmds
    Last Modified 14 May 2020 

    Family Eddy Lanier King GILMORE,   b. 28 May 1907, Selma, Dallas, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Oct 1967, London, Greater London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jul 1943 
    Age at Marriage Tamara : 16 years old | Eddy : 36 years old. 
    Children 3 daughters 
    +1Female. Victoria Wendell GILMORE,   b. 14 Aug 1944, Moscow, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     2Female. Susanna Hager GILMORE,   b. 16 Jan 1950, Moscow, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Apr 2015, Estepona, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    +3Female. Natasha Tamara GILMORE,   b. 3 Feb 1957, Moscow, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 May 2011, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
     
    Family ID F2121  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 15 Jul 1927 - Russia
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 15 Apr 1980 - London, England
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Gunnersbury Cemetery, Acton, Greater London, England
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • 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…”]

  • Sources 
    1. [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.
      From The Toledo Blade, Ohio, Wednesday April 16, 1980

    2. [S5] Find A Grave, → Memorial ID 32479051.