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...last consulates were closed in 1948 when a Soviet consul general kidnaped Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina after her escape from Russia's New York consulate, where she was a schoolteacher. She later escaped again by leaping from the consulate's third floor, became a U.S. citizen before her death...
Died. Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, 63, Russian schoolteacher in the Soviet consulate in Manhattan, who defected in 1948 by jumping from a third-floor window, became a U.S. citizen in 1957 and wrote Leap to Freedom, the story of her life under Russian repression and of the disappearance of her husband in the 1937 purges; of heart disease; in Miami, where she had lived incognita the past year in a hotel for the elderly. Her leap followed a previous escape to the New York farm of the anti-Communist Tolstoy Foundation, from which she was kidnaped by the then Soviet consul...
...Oksana Stepanovna Kasenlcina, now feeling "very, very good" and able to walk a little with a cane, checked out of a Manhattan hospital (in a wheel chair) 100 days after her leap from a third-floor window of the Soviet consulate. Before she left she gave a little party (strawberry shortcake) for her friends at the hospital, and received the press. Her plans? Perhaps she would write a book, maybe go back to schoolteaching, but she intended "to serve the Russian people by telling Americans of the hardships the Russians suffer under Soviet dictatorship." And "I would be proud...
Meanwhile he had also become consul general in New York City, a job second in importance only to that of ambassador. Jacob had certainly made good. In fact, there was no telling where he might have gone if Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, the schoolteacher, had not jumped out of the third-floor window of his consulate...
Three hours and ten minutes after Schoolteacher Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina plunged from the Soviet consulate in Manhattan last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), television station WPIX was on the air with a newsreel of the shocking incident. Thousands of televiewers saw Mrs. Kosenkina lying against an iron grille door in the consulate's paved backyard. They saw consulate staff members push at the heavy door (rolling the broken-boned woman roughly on her side) and in a clumsy panic, try to lift her. They saw two New York policemen, who had scaled the high iron fence around the courtyard, crowd...