What is Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne?
{{Infobox person |name = Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne |image = Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne black & white portrait.jpeg |image_size = |caption = Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne. |birth_name = Kyra Petrovskaya |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1918|12|31}} |birth_place = [[Crimea]], Russia |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2018|6|3|1918|12|31}} |death_place = [[Kingston, Washington]], U.S. |nationality = Russian, American }} '''Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne''' (December 31, 1918 – June 3, 2018) was a Russian-born American author. She was a [[sniper]] during [[World War II]] and a survivor of the [[Siege of Leningrad]]. She was the author of 14 books. She was a survivor of the [[Siege of Leningrad]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Norman |last=Dash |title=Glamorous Santa Monican Looks Like Anything but Russian |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/478969872.html?dids=478969872:478969872&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Nov+06%2C+1960&author=NORMAN+DASH&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Glamorous+Santa+Monican+Looks+Like+Anything+but+Russian&pqatl=google |quote=Sitting in her small Santa Monica apartment surrounded by stacks of books and paintings, pretty blue-eyed Kyra Petrovskaya looks like anything but a former Soviet army lieutenant. |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 6, 1960 |access-date=2009-01-07 |archive-date=2011-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525134544/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/478969872.html?dids=478969872:478969872&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Nov+06,+1960&author=NORMAN+DASH&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Glamorous+Santa+Monican+Looks+Like+Anything+but+Russian&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref> Wayne died in [[Kingston, Washington]] of [[respiratory failure]] on June 3, 2018 at the age of 99.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.legacy.com/obituaries/kitsapsun/obituary.aspx?n=&pid=189314025&referrer=0&preview=True|title=Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne obituary}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lewischapel.com/obituaries/obituary-listings?obId=3111690|title=Kyra P