Оксана Фёдорова

Oksana Fedorova was born on 17 December 1977, in the city of Pskov. On her mother’s side, her lineage goes back to Russian nobility; however, their surname is not known. Family lore has it that Oksana’s maternal great grandmother Anna, who lived in St. Petersburg, defied her parents’ wishes by marrying a lowly laborer, railroad switcher by the name of Konstantin Kronov. Anna was subsequently disinherited and stripped of her surname and title. Her beloved husband later died tragically in a job-related accident. Anna would raise their four children, survive the revolution, two world wars, Stalin’s reprisals and the Siege of Leningrad, and would die in that city in 1978.