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Soraya was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary Bakhtiary (1901–1983), a Bakhtiari nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his Russian-born German wife Eva Karl (1906–1994).
Yul Brynner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер), born July 11, 1920, and deceased October 10, 1985, …