Stalin's Daughter

by Rosemary Sullivan

  10.Nikita Khrushchev, Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, vol. 1, Commissar 1918–1945, ed. Sergei Khrushchev, trans. George Shriver (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004), appendix, 737.

  11.“The Svetlana Memoirs,” Bookseller, Aug. 12, 1967, p. 1328.

  12.“Svetlana Copyright Hearing,” Bookseller, Aug. 26, 1967, p. 1472.

  13.Edmund Wilson, The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960–72, ed. Lewis Dabney (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993), 670.

  14.Letter from Evan Thomas to Greenbaum, June 2, 1967, PC, HarperCollins Collection.

  15.“Svetlana Stalin: My Father Was a Good Person,” Stern, no. 33 (Aug. 13, 1967): 11–21. Articles were published on Aug. 13, 20, 27, and Sept. 3.

  16.“Mother Is a Little Bit Screwed Up,” Stern, no. 35 (Aug. 27, 1967): 33–40.

  17.Biagi, Svetlana: The Inside Story, 69, 143–44.

  18.Ibid., 37–38.

  19.Ibid., 141.

  20.Alliluyeva, Only One Year, 336–39.

  21.Ibid., 340.

  22.Alliluyeva, “To Boris Leonidovich Pasternak,” 133.

  23.Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

  24.Fitzpatrick, A Spy in the Archives, 10.

  25.Ibid., 338.

  26.Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

  27.Author’s interview with Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Jan. 21, 2013.

  28.Letter to Joan Kennan, Oct. 26, 1967, PC, J. Kennan.

  29.Ibid.

  30.Ibid.

  31.Alliluyeva, Only One Year, 339.

  CHAPTER 21: LETTERS TO A FRIEND

  1.Alliluyeva, Only One Year, 344.

  2.Ibid., 343.

  3.Ibid., 347.

  4.Letter to Evan Thomas, Sept. 14, 1967, PC, HarperCollins Collection.

  5.Alliluyeva, Only One Year, 399.

  6.Letter from Donald Jameson to George Kennan, Oct. 12, 1967, PUL, G. Kennan Papers, MC 076, box 22, folder 5, Jameson, Donald.

  7.Bertram Wolfe, “Svetlana’s Life: A Soul Laid Bare,” Chicago Daily News, Sept. 23, 1967.

  8.Arthur Schlesinger, “Twenty Letters to a Father,” Atlantic, November 1967.

  9.Olga Carlisle, “Dictator’s Daughter,” New York Times Book Review 72, no. 39 (Sept. 24, 1967).

  10.Arthur Koestler, “Stalin’s Svetlana Writes Book of Homely Reflections,” London Times Sunday Magazine, Oct. 15, 1967.

  11.Alexander Werth, “Svetlana: Who Needs Her?” Nation, Nov. 6, 1967.

  12.Elizabeth Hardwick, “The Crown Jewels,” New York Review of Books, Oct. 12, 1967.

  13.“Mrs. Alliluyeva Donates $340,000,” New York Times, Oct. 26, 1967.

  14.Ibid.

  15.Silverstone, “Suburbanization of Svetlana,” 59.

  16.Letter to Joan Kennan, Oct. 26, 1967, PC, J. Kennan.

  17.Edmund Wilson, “Books: Two Soviet Households,” New Yorker, Dec. 9, 1967.

  18.Alliluyeva, Twenty Letters, 255.

  CHAPTER 22: A CRUEL REBUFF

  1.Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 12, HIA.

  2.NARA, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy Files 1967–69, Political and Defense Pol 29 USSR, To Pol 30 USSR, Memorandum of Conversation: General Edward Greenbaum to Foy Kohler, Dec. 4, 1967.

  3.Alliluyeva, Only One Year, 441.

  4.Silverstone, “Suburbanization of Svetlana,” 56.

  5.Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 2, tape 1, HIA. Alliluyeva claimed it was a joke.

  6.Reported by Evgeniya Tucker, telephone interview with author, Mar. 14, 2013.

  7.Paul Preston, We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War (London: Constable & Robinson, 2008), 216.

  8.Ibid., 257.

  9.Louis Fischer, Men and Politics: An Autobiography (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941), 90–91.

  10.Milovan Djilas, Conversations with Stalin, trans. Michael B. Petrovich (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962), 70.

  11.Letter to Louis Fischer, Apr. 5, 1968, Louis Fischer Papers, MC 204, box 1, folder 7, 1968–69, PUL.

  12.Letter to Louis Fischer, Apr. 8, 1968, PUL.

  13.Letter to Louis Fischer, Apr. 5, 1968, PUL.

  14.Letter to Louis Fischer, June 6, 1968, PUL.

  15.Letter to Louis Fischer, June 8, 1968, PUL.

  16.Letter to Louis Fischer, Apr. 5, 1968, PUL.

  17.Letter to author from Robert Rayle, Sept. 24, 2013.

  18.Author’s interview with Robert and Ramona Rayle, Ashburn, VA, July 18–19, 2013.

  19.Letter to Louis Fischer, Aug. 27, 1968, PUL.

  20.United States Immigration and Naturalization Service.

  21.Letter to Louis Fischer, June 27, 1968, PUL.

  22.Ibid.

  23.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 31.

  24.Ibid., 34.

  25.Letter from Ark. Belinkov to Svetlana Alliluyeva, Aug. 18, 1968, Louis Fischer Papers, MC 24, box 1, folder 7, Allilueva, Svetlana Stalina, 1968–69, PUL.

  26.Ibid.

  27.Belinkov and Belinkova, Two Voices in Clash with the Century, 399.

  28.Letter to Edmund Wilson, Aug. 13, 1968, translated from Russian, Edmund Wilson Papers, folder 32, Allilueva, Svetlana, 1968–79, PUL.

  29.Belinkov and Belinkova, Two Voices in Clash with the Century, 400.

  30.Letter to Louis Fischer, Aug. 29, 1968, PUL.

  31.Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 3, 1968, PUL.

  32.Letter to Louis Fischer, Aug. 19, 1968, PUL.

  33.Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 8, 1968, PUL.

  34.Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 17, 1968, PUL.

  35.Preston, We Saw Spain Die, 261–62; and ‘Dede’ to Fischer (undated), box 10, folder 1, Fischer Papers, PUL.

  36.Letters to Louis Fischer, Oct. 26, 30, 1968, PUL.

  37.Letter to Joan Kennan, Oct. 29, 1968, PC, J. Kennan.

  38.Letter to Fischer, Nov. 13, 1968, PUL.

  39.Letter from Fischer to Alliluleyva, Nov. 24, 1968, PUL.

  40.Patricia Blake, “The Saga of Stalin’s ‘Little Sparrow,’” Time, Jan. 28, 1985, 49.

  41.Preston, We Saw Spain Die, 261; and undated letter (1957), box 10, folder 1, Fischer Papers, PUL.

  42.Preston, We Saw Spain Die, 262

  43.Author’s interview with Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Jan. 21, 2013.

  44.Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

  CHAPTER 23: ONLY ONE YEAR

  1.Letter to Louis Fischer, Dec. 26, 1968, PUL.

  2.Wilson, The Sixties, 754–55.

  3.Ibid., 758.

  4.Ibid.

  5.Author’s interview with David and Clarissa Pryce-Jones, London, June 25, 2013.

  6.Letter to Louis Fischer, Feb. 3, 1969, PUL.

  7.Letter to Louis Fischer, Mar. 5, 1969, PUL.

  8.Letter to Louis Fischer, Mar. 28, 1969, PUL.

  9.Letter to Louis Fischer, May 12, 1969, PUL.

  10.Letter to Annelise Kennan, Apr. 24, 1969, George F. Kennan Papers, MC 076, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  11.Letter to Louis Fischer, June 13, 1969, PUL.

  12.Letter to Louis Fischer, Aug. 7, 1969, PUL.

  13.Letter from Cass Canfield to W. A. R. Collins, Nov. 27, 1968, PC, HarperCollins Collection.

  14.Letter from Cass Canfield to P. Chavchavadze, Dec. 3, 1968, PC, HarperCollins Collection.

  15.Harrison Salisbury wrote to George Kennan that he thought Svetlana was right about Beria and that reviewers should not have been so contemptuous of her insistence that Beria had a sinister influence over her father. Letter, June 8, 1967, George Kennan Papers, MC 076, Salisbury, Harrison, box 43, folder 2, PUL.

  16.Alliluyeva, Only One Year, 141–43.

  17.Ibid., 181–82, 358.

  18.Ibid., 362.

  19.Ibid., 393.

  20.Ibid., 169.

  21.Ibid., 181.

  22.Ibid., 175.

  23.Ibid., 182.

  24.Edmund Wilson, Letters on Liter
ature and Politics 1912–1972, ed. Elena Wilson (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977), 702, letter dated July 1, 1969.

  25.Wilson, The Sixties, 809.

  26.Silverstone, “Suburbanization of Svetlana,” 55.

  27.“Andropov: KGB Meeting November 5, 1969,” Meryle Secrest Collection, Svetlana Peters: General File, HIA.

  28.Author’s interview with Olga Alliluyeva, Toronto, May 5, 2012.

  29.Belinkov and Belinkova, Two Voices in Clash with the Century, 400–401.

  30.Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 8, 1968, PUL.

  31.Letter to Louis Fischer, Mar. 5, 1969, PUL.

  32.Robert Tucker, “Svetlana Inherited Her Tragic Flaw,” Washington Post, Nov. 25, 1984.

  33.Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 18, HIA.

  34.Letter to Robert and Ramona Rayle, Dec. 9, 2008, PC, Rayle.

  35.Louis Fischer, Russia’s Road from Peace to War: Soviet Foreign Relations 1917–1941 (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), 301.

  36.Letter to Robert Rayle, Aug. 23, 2005, letter no. 3, PC, Rayle.

  37.“Moscow Ends Svetlana Alliluyeva’s Soviet Citizenship,” New York Times, Jan. 22, 1970, p. 3.

  38.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 48.

  39.Edmund Wilson, review of Only One Year, New Yorker 45, no. 32 (Sept. 27, 1967): 153.

  40.Margaret Parton, “Only One Year,” Saturday Review 52, no. 40 (Oct. 4, 1969): 44.

  41.“Svetlana Faces Life,” Book Review, Life, Oct. 3, 1969, 12.

  42.Philip Rahv, “The Princess,” Commentary 49, no. 3 (March 1970): 71.

  43.Bernard D. Nossiter, “Svetlana Charges Distortions,” Washington Post, Feb. 26, 1970, p. 11.

  44.Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 3, 1968, PUL.

  45.Author’s interview with Yelena Khanga, Moscow, Jan. 28, 2014.

  46.Author’s interview with Leonid and Galina Alliluyev, Moscow, May 17, 2013.

  47.Golden, Long Journey Home, 155–56.

  CHAPTER 24: THE TALIESIN FIASCO

  1.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 56.

  2.Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman, The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 50.

  3.Meryle Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 510.

  4.Ibid.

  5.Ibid., 512.

  6.Ibid., 513–14.

  7.Kamal Amin, Reflections from the Shining Brow: My Years with Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lazarovich (McKinleyville, CA: Fithian Press, 2004), 216.

  8.Author’s interview with Aris Georges, Spring Green, WI, Aug. 27, 2012.

  9.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 57.

  10.Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 3, HIA.

  11.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 60.

  12.Ibid.

  13.Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 3, HIA.

  14.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 62.

  15.Amin, Reflections, 216–18.

  16.Ibid.

  17.Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 5, HIA.

  18.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 62.

  19.Amin, Reflections, 219.

  20.Author’s interview with Alan Schwartz, Los Angeles, Dec. 5, 2013.

  21.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 63.

  22.Author’s interview with Alan Schwartz, Los Angeles, Dec. 5, 2013.

  23.Ibid.

  24.Amin, Reflections, 219.

  25.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 568. Quitclaim deed filed Apr. 4, 1970, Iowa County land records.

  26.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 568. Comment attributed to O. P. Reed, Nov. 8, 1999.

  27.Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 6, HIA.

  28.Amin, Reflections, 223.

  29.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 65.

  30.Letter to George Kennan, July 3, 1970, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  31.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 568.

  32.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 68.

  33.Author’s interview with Walter Pozen, New York, Feb. 12, 2013.

  34.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 568.

  35.Letter to Donald Jameson, June 2, 1970, PC, Margaret Jameson.

  36.Ibid.

  37.Ibid.

  38.Amin, Reflections, 217.

  CHAPTER 25: THE MONTENEGRIN’S COURTIER

  1.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 569, interview with Lana Peters, June 14, 2000.

  2.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 67.

  3.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 569.

  4.Ibid., 573.

  5.Amin, Reflections, 226.

  6.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 76.

  7.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 577.

  8.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 77.

  9.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 574.

  10.Letter to George Kennan, Mar. 26, 1971, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  11.Letter to Joan Kennan, June 26, 1971, PC, J. Kennan.

  12.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 80.

  13.Ibid., 81.

  14.Ibid., 63.

  15.Financial report of law firm Strook & Strook & Lavan, May 31, 1972, “Valuation of Details of Aldebaran Enterprise,” PC, J. Kennan.

  16.Svetlana Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” unpublished typescript in English, Svetlana Peters II: General File, HIA, published as Kniga dlia vnuchek: puteshestvie na rodinu [A Book for Granddaughters: Journey to the Motherland] (New York: Liberty Publishing House, 1991), 186. Svetlana wrote on the typed title page: “Authorized version in English prepared from the Russian original by the author. 1988–89.” It was published in Russian by Liberty in 1991, but never in English.

  17.Letter to Annelise Kennan, Oct. 6, 1971, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  18.Author’s interview with Aris Georges, Spring Green, WI, Aug. 27, 2012.

  19.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 69.

  20.Amin, Reflections, 223.

  21.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 87–88.

  22.Ibid., 57.

  23.Ibid., 61.

  24.Letter to George Kennan, June 15, 1970, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  25.Amin, Reflections, 223.

  26.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 576, interview with Don and Virginia Lovness, Apr. 15, 1996.

  27.Amin, Reflections, 225.

  28.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 576.

  29.Financial report of law firm Strook & Strook & Lavan, May 31, 1972, “Valuation of Details of Aldebaran Enterprise,” PC, J. Kennan.

  30.Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

  31.Author’s interview with Walter Pozen, New York, Feb. 12, 2013.

  32.Author’s interview with Michael Coyne, Dec. 17, 2013.

  33.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 94.

  34.Ibid., 96.

  35.“Stalin’s Daughter Leaves Her Husband,” New York Times, Feb. 23, 1972.

  36.“Joseph Stalin’s Daughter Leaves Her Husband,” Danville Register and Bee, Feb. 23, 1972.

  37.Ibid.

  38.“Stalin’s Daughter Disputes Husband on Separation,” New York Times, Feb. 24, 1972.

  39.Ibid.

  40.Friedland and Zellman, The Fellowship, 577, interview with Iovanna Wright, July 24, 2000.

  41.Letter to Joan Kennan, Apr. 3, 1972, PC, J. Kennan.

  42.Author’s interview with Walter Pozen, New York, Feb. 12, 2013; and financial report of law firm Strook & Strook & Lavan, May 31, 1972, “Valuation of Details of Aldebaran Enterprise,” PC, J. Kennan.

  43.Wilson, The Sixties, 877.

  44.Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

  45.Author’s interview with Walter Pozen, New York, Feb. 12, 2013.

  46.Letter to Joan Kennan, May 23, 1972, PC, J. Kennan.

  47.Letter to Joan Kennan, June 3, 1972
, PC, J. Kennan.

  CHAPTER 26: STALIN’S DAUGHTER CUTTING THE GRASS

  1.Letter to Annelise Kennan, Aug. 7, 1972, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  2.Ibid.

  3.Letter to George Kennan, June 1, 1973, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  4.Ibid.

  5.Author’s interview with Hella McVay, Princeton, Dec. 3, 2012.

  6.Letter to Jerzy Kosinski, undated, Katherina von Fraunhofer-Kosinski Collection of Jerzy Kosinski, Gen. Mss. 742, box 24, Misc. Correspondence, BRB.

  7.Jerzy Kosinski, Blind Date (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), 78–79.

  8.Author’s interview with Evgeniya Tucker, Feb. 14, 2013.

  9.Rosa Shand, “Wheel of Fire,” Southwest Review 87, no. 1 (January 2002): 90.

  10.Ibid., 92.

  11.Ibid., 93–94

  12.Ibid., 95.

  13.Anna Akhmatova, Requiem and Poem Without a Hero, trans. D. M. Thomas. The poem was banned in the USSR and was first published in Munich in 1963.

  14.Shand, “Wheel of Fire,” 95.

  15.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 127.

  16.Author’s interview with Millie Harford, Princeton, Dec. 3, 2012.

  17.Ibid.

  18.Ibid.

  19.Letter to Rosa Shand, Nov. 5, 1974, PC, Shand.

  20.Letter to Annelise Kennan, July 28, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  21.Letter to Donald Jameson, Nov. 6, 1973, PC, Margaret Jameson.

  22.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 116.

  23.Letter to Annelise Kennan, July 28, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  24.Letter to Annelise Kennan, July 22, 1974, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

  25.Ibid.

  26.Letter to Rosa Shand, Mar. 25, 1975, PC, Shand.

  27.Letter to author from George Krimsky, Aug. 27, 2014.

  28.Letter from “A Friend” to George Kennan, Aug. 5, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38 folder 5, PUL.

  29.Thompson, Hawk and the Dove, 248; and letter from Mark Garrison, Department of State, to George Kennan, Aug. 14, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 5, PUL.

  30.Nicholas Thompson interview with George Krimsky, June 22, 2008. See Thompson, Hawk and the Dove, 248–50.

  31.Letter to George Kennan, Oct. 15, 1975, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 5, PUL.

  32.Thompson, Hawk and the Dove, 249.

  33.Sharon Schlegel, “I Don’t Want to Be Svetlana Any More,” Washington Post, July 29, 1979, 7.