Regina Nikolaevna Zbarskaya (Russian: Регина Николаевна Збарская) (born 27 September 1935, Vologda (according to another source - Leningrad) - died 15 November 1987 in Moscow) was a Soviet fashion model.
Those who knew Zbarskaya personally claimed that she was born in Vologda, where her mother, Daria Tikhonovna Kolesnikova, worked as a doctor, and her father, Nikolai Dementievich Kolesnikov, was a retired officer.
[4] And when Vyacheslav Zaitsev cut Zbarskaya's pageboy hair and created the image of an “Italian beauty,” Zbarskaya was dubbed the “Soviet Sophia Loren” in the Western press[5] In 1958, she starred in the film The Sailor from the Comet (Russian: Матрос с «Кометы») as the Italian singer Silvanna (credited as R.
At this time, Zbarsky became interested in actress Marianna Vertinskaya, and then went to Lyudmila Maksakova, who gave birth to his son in 1970.
Also in his memoirs, he categorically rejected the speculation that he encountered in various sources that Zbarskaya worked for the KGB, helping to collect the necessary data for this department in various ways.
[8] After leaving the hospital, Zbarskaya, with the help of the deputy director of the Model House, Elena Stepanovna Vorobey, returned to the podium.
[9] After the political scandal, Zbarskaya tried to commit suicide three times; she succeeded on the third attempt and died from sleeping pills poisoning on November 15, 1987, at the age of 52.