Faina Chiang Fang-liang (simplified Chinese: 蒋方良; traditional Chinese: 蔣方良; pinyin: Jiǎng Fāngliáng) (15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004) was the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
Born Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva (Russian: Фаина Ипатьевна Вахрева, Belarusian: Фаіна Іпацьеўна Вахрава) in a Belarusian family which had migrated to Yekaterinburg, Russia during World War I, she w...
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Faina Chiang Fang-liang (simplified Chinese: 蒋方良; traditional Chinese: 蔣方良; pinyin: Jiǎng Fāngliáng) (15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004) was the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
Born Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva (Russian: Фаина Ипатьевна Вахрева, Belarusian: Фаіна Іпацьеўна Вахрава) in a Belarusian family which had migrated to Yekaterinburg, Russia during World War I, she was orphaned at a young age and raised by her older sister Anna. An member of the Soviet Union's Communist Youth League, Vakhreva, at the age of 16, reported and worked for Chiang Ching-kuo at the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant. They married two years later on 15 March 1935. Chiang had been exiled to work in Siberia under direction from Stalin after his father, Chiang Kai-shek, had expelled the leftists from the Kuomintang (KMT). The couple's first child, a son originally named Èrik (Эрик) but better known by his Chinese name Hsiao-wen, was born on...
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