Viktoriya Tokareva was born on November 20, 1937 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia] as Viktoriya Samuilovna Silberstein. She is a writer, known for Gentlemen of Fortune (1971), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1973) and Shla sobaka po royalyu (1979). She is married to Victor Tokarev. They have one child.