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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international sensation when she defected to the United States and, in 1978, became a naturalized American citizen. From 1984 to 1986, she briefly returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citiz…
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culture · Youngest child of Joseph Stalin (1926–2011) · translator · autobiographer · writer · memoirist · philologist · opinion journalist · teacher · also Svetlana Alliluyeva, Svetlana Stalina, Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, Lana Peters, Svetlana Alilueva, Alliluyeva
Born 28 February 1926 · Died 22 November 2011 · Q228584
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“When my mother left us, he [Stalin] was left completely alone. And I think what came next, in the late 30s and after the war in the 40s - I think that was a result of his complete loneliness on top of the world. Nobody would argue with him anymore.”
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Died 2011-11-22.
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“Opis: zaciągając córkę przed lustro po tym, gdy zakochała się w Aleksieju Kaplerze.”
“When my mother left us, he [Stalin] was left completely alone.”
Described Svetlana's increasingly fragile state of mind in a series of letters she wrote to Gross following the interview:
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After the Soviet government had stopped blocking Alliluyeva's attempts to communicate with her USSR-based children, her son Iosif began to call her regularly and planned to visit her in England, but was refused permissio
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Alliluyeva became a US citizen as Lana Peters, and in 1982, she moved with her daughter to Cambridge in England, where they shared an apartment near the Cambridge University Botanic Garden
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Alliluyeva answered an invitation from Frank Lloyd Wright's widow, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, to visit Wright's winter studio, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona
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Garbolino was in New Jersey and went to visit Alliluyeva at Princeton
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Alliluyeva found herself spending time with Catholics in Switzerland and encountered many denominations during her time in the United States
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Became an international sensation when she defected to the United States and, in 1978, became a naturalized American citizen
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The book was published as Twenty Letters to a Friend ("Dvadtsat' pisem k drugu")
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To work as a translator, but he and Alliluyeva were not allowed to marry
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While in hospital for a tonsillectomy, Alliluyeva met Kunwar Brajesh Singh, an Indian Communist visiting Moscow
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Married Ivan Svanidze, the nephew of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, soon after meeting him for the first time since his parents' arrest in 1937
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Alliluyeva worked as a lecturer and translator in Moscow
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Alliluyeva gave birth to a daughter, Yekaterina
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But remained close friends for decades afterwards
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To Grigory Morozov, a Jewish student at Moscow University's Institute of International Affairs
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In Vorkuta and was then sentenced again in 1948 to five years in labour camps in Inta
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Alliluyeva would stay until 1943, when she graduated from the 10th grade
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Alliluyeva and Vasily began attending Moscow School No
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Born 1926-02-28.
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