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The Admiral's Daughter

The Admiral's Daughter is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Admiral's Daughter rather than just read about it. In short: The Admiral's Daughter is a 1979 autobiography written by Victoria Fyodorova with Haskel Frankel. It relates the story of Fyodorova's parents, Jackson Tate and Zoya Fyodorova, who had an affair in Moscow in 1945, her childhood in the Soviet Union, and her later search for and reunion with her father in the United States.

Key takeaways

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Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The Admiral's Daughter to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The Admiral's Daughter from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Admiral's Daughter is a 1979 autobiography written by Victoria Fyodorova with Haskel Frankel. It relates the story of Fyodorova's parents, Jackson Tate and Zoya Fyodorova, who had an affair in Moscow in 1945, her childhood in the Soviet Union, and her later search for and reunion with her father in the United States.

Background Zoya Fyodorova was a well-known Soviet actress starting in the 1930s. In 1945, she met United States Navy Captain Jackson R. Tate, a deputy attaché who was stationed in Moscow, and they had an affair. Tate was warned to end the relationship by secret police. When Soviet leader Joseph Stalin learned of the affair, Tate was declared an unwelcome person and expelled from Moscow, and Zoya Fyodorova was arrested and sent to Siberia for 8 years. Their daughter, Victoria, was born January 8, 1946, and was named for V-E Day.

Reunion University of Connecticut professor Irene Kirk learned of Victoria's story in 1959 and spent years trying to find Tate in the United States. Tate was unaware of having a daughter and of his former lover's arrest and imprisonment. When Kirk found Tate in 1973, she carried correspondence between the two back and forth to Moscow. In 1974, Tate began a campaign to convince the Soviet government to allow his daughter to travel to see him in the United States. The story of Tate's attempts to reunite with his daughter gained worldwide attention and after a personal appeal by Leonid Brezhnev, Victoria was granted permission to leave the Soviet Union, arriving in the United States in March 1975 on a three-month travel visa. She spent several weeks in seclusion in Florida with Tate.

Reception Los Angeles Times book critic Robert Kirsch called the book "padded beyond belief", and wrote that it was more suited for a magazine article or newspaper miniseries. Baltimore Sun critic Retta Blaney called it "incredible" and "interesting".

References

External links "Vicky, the Admiral's Daughter, Comes from Russia with Love". People. 1975-05-05. "The admiral's daughter finds happiness fragile". Anchorage Daily News. 1979-05-31. p. A2. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Caffery, Bethia (1980-05-31). "Admiral's Daughter: Love Spanned Two Continents". Evening Independent. p. 1B.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Admiral's Daughter

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Admiral's Daughter claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Admiral's Daughter before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Admiral's Daughter ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Admiral's Daughter

In research: The Admiral's Daughter appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The Admiral's Daughter in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The Admiral's Daughter is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1979 non-fiction books, Autobiographies, Delacorte Press books, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Admiral's Daughter outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The Admiral's Daughter in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Admiral's Daughter means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does The Admiral's Daughter matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Admiral's Daughter?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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