Unpublished Newswire

Kim Yaroshevskaya was an actor, author and storyteller with a life story as rich as the fairy tales she recounted to generations of children and the dramatic roles in theatre and film for which she became famous in Quebec. She died at age 101 in Montreal on Jan. 12 after suffering a fall.Ms. Yaroshevskaya was born in Moscow on Oct. 1, 1923, to a communist father and an anarchist mother. Her name is the Russian-language acronym for International Communist Youth. She was an orphan by age 7. Her parents ran afoul of Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian turn. Her mother died by suicide and her...