CHAPTER 27: A KGB STOOL PIGEON
1.Letter to George Kennan, Aug. 1, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, file 4, PUL.
2.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 23, 2013.
3.Letter to George Kennan, Aug. 1, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, file 4, PUL.
4.Letter to Joan Kennan, July 14, 1976, PC, J. Kennan.
5.“DIA Cites Soviet Microwave Research,” Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 22, 1976.
6.Letter to Donald Jameson, Nov. 20, 1976, PC, Margaret Jameson.
7.Letter to George Kennan, Feb. 2, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
8.Letter to George Kennan, Apr. 23, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
9.Letter to Joan Kennan, June 6, 1977, PC, J. Kennan.
10.Letters to Joan Kennan, June 6, 1977, and Oct. 25, 1978, PC, J. Kennan.
11.“A Letter from the Publisher,” Time, Feb. 21, 1977.
12.Letter from Alexander Kurpel, Mar. 17, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
13.Letter from George Krimsky to Svetlana (Mrs. Peters), May 2, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
14.Letter from Gregory Morozov, June 29, 1977, trans. Svetlana Alliluyeva, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
15.Letter from George Kennan to Svetlana, May 14, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
16.Petrovna and Leshynsky, Last Interview, 72–73.
17.Ibid., 73–74.
18.Letter from George Kennan to Svetlana, Sept. 23, 1977, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
CHAPTER 28: LANA PETERS, AMERICAN CITIZEN
1.Letter to George Kennan, July 9, 1978, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
2.Letter of reference from George Kennan to “Immigration and Naturalization Service,” Sept. 14, 1978, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
3.Author’s interview with Millie Harford, Princeton, Dec. 3, 2012.
4.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 156.
5.Author’s interview with Millie Harford, Princeton, Dec. 3, 2012.
6.George Bailey, “Svetlana’s Flight Back Where Her Troubles Began,” Washington Post, Nov. 8, 1984.
7.Letter to Joan Kennan, Dec. 22, 1979, PC, J. Kennan.
8.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, July 17, 2012.
9.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 141.
10.Ibid., 142–44.
11.Ibid., 144.
12.Letter to Joan Kennan, July 30, 1986, PC, J. Kennan.
13.Ibid.
14.Letter to George Kennan, Nov. 13, 1978, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
15.Letter to Robert Rayle, undated, PC, Rayle.
16.Sharon Schlegel, “I Don’t Want to Be Svetlana Any More,” Washington Post, July 29, 1979.
17.Ibid.
18.Letter to George Kennan, Aug. 4, 1979, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
19.Letter to George Kennan, Nov. 13, 1978, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 4, PUL.
20.Letter to Joan Kennan, Dec. 22, 1979, PC, J. Kennan.
21.Letter from George Kennan to D. Jameson, June 15, 1984, Kennan Papers, box 22, folder 5, Jameson, Donald, PUL.
22.Author’s interview with Alan Schwartz, Los Angeles, Dec. 5, 2013.
23.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 27, 2013.
24.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 137.
25.Letter to Rosa Shand, Feb. 15, 1980, PC, Shand.
26.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 27, 2013.
CHAPTER 29: THE MODERN JUNGLE OF FREEDOM
1.Rosa Shand, “The Will to Be,” unpublished correspondence between Rosa Shand and Svetlana Alliluyeva, with Shand’s journal entries, p. 26, PC, Shand. Shand noted Svetlana was “careful about asking for a ‘light’ drink, and certainly did not drink too much.”
2.Shand, “Wheel of Fire,” 97.
3.Shand, “Will to Be,” 66.
4.Shand, “Wheel of Fire,” 98.
5.Shand, “Will to Be,” 24.
6.Shand, “Wheel of Fire,” 100.
7.Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge, Mar. 9, 1970, SC-4, WCSC.
8.Shand, “Will to Be,” 29–30.
9.Ibid, 31.
10.Letter to Rosa Shand, Sept. 21, 1981, PC, Shand.
11.Letter from Malcolm Muggeridge, Feb. 2, 1981, WCSC.
12.Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge, Feb. 17, 1981, WCSC.
13.Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge, Apr. 4, 1981, WCSC.
14.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 25, 2013.
15.Shand, “Will to Be,” 68.
16.Letter to Malcolm and Kitty Muggeridge, Nov. 30, 1981, WCSC.
17.Letter to Kitty Muggeridge, Sept. 15, 1981, WCSC.
18.Letter to Kitty Muggeridge, Aug. 24, 1981, WCSC.
19.Letter to Kitty Muggeridge, Sept. 15, 1981, WCSC.
20.Ibid.
21.Letter to Rosa Shand, Sept. 15, 1981, PC, Shand.
22.Letter to Rosa Shand, Sept. 21, 1981, PC, Shand.
23.Fitzpatrick, Spy in the Archives, 336.
24.Letter to Rosa Shand, Sept. 21, 1981, PC, Shand.
25.Letter to Mrs. Ronald Reagan, Jan. 27, 1982, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, FG 002, Peters, Lana.
26.Shand, “Will to Be,” 65.
27.Undated letter to Isaiah Berlin, 1982, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
28.Shand, “Will to Be,” 71–72.
29.Letter to Lana Peters from Isaiah Berlin, Jan. 13, 1982, the Trustees of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust 2015, quoted with the permission of the Trustees.
30.Letter “To Whom It May Concern,” from Hugo Brunner, Apr. 8, 1982, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
31.Letter to Lady Berlin, Apr. 13, 1982, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
32.Letter to Sir Isaiah Berlin, Mar. 20, 1982, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
33.Letter from Isaiah Berlin to Francis Graham-Harrison, May 13, 1982, the Trustees of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust 2015, quoted with the permission of the Trustees.
CHAPTER 30: CHAUCER ROAD
1.Letter to Rosa Shand, Oct. 18, 1982, PC, Shand.
2.Letter to Isaiah Berlin, Oct. 8, 1982, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust (IBLT).
3.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, July 17, 2012.
4.Letter to Isaiah Berlin, Aug. 29, 1982, translated from Russian, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
5.Letter from Isaiah Berlin to Francis Graham-Harrison, May 12, 1982, the Trustees of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust 2015, quoted with the permission of the Trustees.
6.Letter to Isaiah Berlin, Nov. 17, 1982, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
7.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, July 17, 2012.
8.Ibid.
9.Letter to Rosa Shand, July 13, 1983, PC, Shand.
10.Author’s interview with Jane Renfrew, Cambridge, UK, June 23, 2013.
11.Letter to author from Philippa Hill, Aug. 1, 2013.
12.Author’s interview with Philippa Hill, Cambridge, UK, June 23, 2013.
13.Author’s interview with Rosamond Richardson, Saffron Walden, June 22, 2013.
14.Ibid.
15.Author’s interview with Jane Renfrew, Cambridge, UK, June 23, 2013.
16.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
17.Author’s interview with Jane Renfrew, Cambridge, UK, June 23, 2013.
18.R. W. Apple Jr., “Stalin’s Daughter Living in British University Town,” New York Times, May 22, 1983.
19.Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge, Apr. 20, 1983, WCSC.
20.Letter to Aline Berlin, Apr. 15, 1983, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
21.Letter from Hugo Brunner, Sept. 14, 1983, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
22.Author’s interview with Jane Renfrew, Cambridge, UK, June 23, 2013.
23.Alliluyeva, Faraway Music, 167.
24.Edwin McDowell, “Hints of Loneliness and Dashed Hopes,” New York Times, Nov. 3, 1984.
25.Letter to Isaiah Berlin, Jan. 3, 1984, Isaiah Berlin Literary Tr
ust.
26.Letter to Isaiah Berlin, Oct. 18, 1983, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
27.Letter from Isaiah Berlin, Jan. 6, 1984, the Trustees of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust 2015, quoted with the permission of the Trustees.
28.Letter to Isaiah Berlin, Jan. 11, 1984, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
29.Letter to Isaiah Berlin, Sept. 9, 1984, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
30.Letter from Vera Traill to Isaiah Berlin, Mar. 2, 1984, Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
31.Ibid.
32.Letter to Rosa Shand, July 30, 1984, PC, Shand.
33.Author’s interview with Jane Renfrew, Cambridge, UK, June 23, 2013.
34.Author’s interview with Philippa Hill, Cambridge, UK, June 23, 2013.
35.Edwin McDowell, “Hints of Loneliness and Dashed Hopes,” New York Times, Nov. 3, 1984.
36.Patricia Blake, “Svetlana Returns to Her ‘Prison,’” Time, Nov. 12, 1984.
37.Robert D. McFadden, “Some Say Stalin’s Daughter Grew Unhappy in the West,” New York Times, Nov. 3, 1984.
38.Svetlana Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” unpublished typescript in English, 13–15, Meryle Secrest Collection, General File, HIA.
39.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, July 17, 2012.
40.Ibid.
CHAPTER 31: BACK IN THE USSR
1.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
2.Ibid.
3.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 62.
4.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
5.Ibid.
6.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 51.
7.Ibid., 19.
8.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
9.Serge Schmemann, “Stalin’s Daughter Back in Soviet After 17 Years,” New York Times, Nov. 3, 1984.
10.Ibid.
11.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 61.
12.Dusko Doder, “Stalin’s Daughter Explains Decision: Alliluyeva Says She Was Manipulated by the CIA, Became Homesick for Family,” Washington Post, Nov. 17, 1984.
13.“Stalin’s Daughter Vows: I Will Never Go Back,” New York Times, Apr. 19, 1986.
14.Doder, “Stalin’s Daughter Explains Decision.”
15.The actual title of the equivalent of president under the Constitution of the USSR was general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
16.Dusko Doder, “Soviets Polishing Stalin’s Image,” Washington Post, Nov. 26, 1984.
17.Schmemann, “Stalin’s Daughter Back in Soviet After 17 Years.”
18.George Bailey, “Svetlana’s Flight: Back Where Her Troubles Began,” Washington Post, Nov. 8, 1984.
19.Robert Tucker, “Svetlana Inherited Her Tragic Flaw,” Washington Post, Nov. 25, 1984.
20.Fitzpatrick, Spy in the Archives, 238.
21.Author’s interview with Jane Renfrew, Cambridge, UK, June 23, 2013.
22.Blake, “The Saga of ‘Stalin’s Little Sparrow.’”
23.Ibid., 56.
24.McFadden, “Some Say Stalin’s Daughter Grew Unhappy in the West.”
25.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
26.Memo from Liz to George Kennan, Nov. 2, 1984, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 5, PUL.
27.Secretary’s memorandum, Nov. 2, 1984, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 5, PUL.
28.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 60.
29.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
30.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 65.
31.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
32.Author’s interview with Yelena Khanga, Moscow, Jan. 21, 2014.
33.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Mar. 27, 2014.
34.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
35.Author’s interview with Alexander Burdonsky, Moscow, June 1, 2013.
36.A famous ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater.
37.Author’s interview with Alexander Burdonsky, Moscow, June 1, 2013.
38.Ibid.
39.Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 2, tape 14, HIA.
CHAPTER 32: TBILISI INTERLUDE
1.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
2.Ibid.
3.Anyone traveling internationally would have been vetted by the Georgian KGB.
4.Author’s interview with Alexander Alliluyev, Moscow, May 25, 2013.
5.Letter to author from Tamara Dovgan, Saint Petersburg, Aug. 28, 2013.
6.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 100.
7.Ibid., 146.
8.Richard Owen, “Svetlana to Make Home in Tbilisi,” New York Times, Dec. 17, 1984.
9.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 137.
10.Ibid., 146. Svetlana also quoted her daughter’s words in a letter to Joan Kennan, May 5, 1986, PC, J. Kennan.
11.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
12.Mikoyan, Memoirs of Military Test-Flying, 149.
13.Petrova and Leshynsky, Last Interview, 16.
14.Ibid.
15.Ibid., 99.
16.Letter from Vera Traill to Isaiah Berlin, July 9, 1985, the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
17.Letter to Joan Kennan, Dec. [undated], 1985, PC, J. Kennan.
18.Letter to Rosa Shand, Jan. 20, 1986, PC, Shand.
19.Letter from Rosa Shand, Feb. [no date], 1986, PC, Rosa Shand.
20.Letter to Rosa Shand from Utya Djaparidze, Palm Sunday 1986, PC, Shand.
21.Author’s interview with Leonid and Galina Alliluyev, Moscow, May 17, 2013.
22.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 145.
23.Ibid., 156.
24.Ibid., 155.
25.Ibid., 159–60.
26.Top Secret Minutes of Meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mar. 20, 1986, Meryle Secrest Collection, Svetlana Peters General File, HIA.
27.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 160.
28.Author’s interview with Leonid and Galina Alliluyev, Moscow, May 17, 2013.
29.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 164.
30.Author’s interview with Leila Sikmashvili, Tbilisi, Georgia, June 15, 2013.
31.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
32.Author’s interview with Alexander Burdonsky, Moscow, June 1, 1913.
33.“Stalin Kin Likely to Be Rebuffed,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Apr. 1, 1986.
34.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
35.Letter Series to Robert and Ramona Rayle, July–September 2005, PC, Rayle.
36.Raymond H. Anderson, “Talk with Stalin’s Daughter: Why She Left Soviet Again,” New York Times, May 18, 1986.
37.Alliluyeva, “Book for Granddaughters,” 170.
38.Sarah Booth Conroy, “The Odyssey of Stalin’s Granddaughter,” Washington Post, Apr. 15, 1986.
39.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
40.“Stalin’s Grandchild Is in England,” USA Today, Apr. 16, 1986.
41.“Svetlana’s Girl Flies Back,” (London) Times, Apr. 6, 1986.
42.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
43.Author’s interview with Alexander Alliluyev, Moscow, May 25, 2013.
44.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 26, 2013.
45.“The People Who Care for Me Are in America,” Washington Post, Apr. 18, 1986.
46.Author’s interview with Alexander Alliluyev, Moscow, May 25, 2013.
47.Author’s interview with Leonid and Galina Alliluyev, Moscow, May 17, 2013.
48.Author’s interview with Alexander Burdonsky, Moscow, June 1, 2013.
49.Petrovna and Leshynsky, Last Interview, 94–95.
50.Nicholas Powell, “Svetlana Lured by KGB Man,” (London) Sunday Mail, Nov. 11, 1984. The article included five letters from Alliluyeva to the Sinyavskys, in one of which she complains that, while a beauty, Olga follows the rebellious tide of British youth; this leads A. Sinyavsky to conclude that “her letters to us show how estranged she felt from Olga.”
51.Duff Hart-Davis (London), Independent, Aug. 17, 1994.
52.Letter from George Kennan to Frank Carlucci, Sept. 10, 1987, Kennan Papers, box 38 folder 3, PUL.
53.Blake reported this to Melissa Akin, “Stalin’s Daughter Shuns Public Attention,” Las Vegas Sun, June 13, 1996.
54.Letter from Utya Djaparidze to Rosa Shand, Sept. 30, 1986, PC, Shand.
CHAPTER 33: AMERICAN REALITY
1.Anderson, “Talk with Stalin’s Daughter: Why She Left Soviet Again.”
2.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Mar. 27, 2014.
3.From Svetlana Alliluyeva to “Dear old friends and former Patrons,” Feb. 25, 1987, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 3, PUL.
4.Round-robin letter from Lana Peters to “Dear friend,” Feb. [undated], 1987, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 3, PUL.
5.Fitzpatrick, Spy in the Archives, 278.
6.Virginia Mills, “Judge Restores Peters as Trustee of Charity Group,” Trenton Times, Jan. 2, 1987.
7.Letter to Philippa Hill, June 22, 1987, PC, Hill.
8.Letter to Rosa Shand, July 29, 1987, PC, Shand.
9.George Kennan letter to F. Carlucci, Sept. 10, 1987, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 3, PUL.
10.Memo to file: from George Kennan, Oct. 7, 1987, Kennan Papers, box 38, folder 3, PUL.
11.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, Feb. 25, 2013.
12.Author’s interview with Aris Georges, Spring Green, WI, Aug. 27, 2012.
13.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, July 17, 2012.
14.Letter to author from Robert Rayle, Nov. 5, 2013.
15.Letter to Philippa Hill, Feb. 13, 1988, PC, Hill.
16.Letter to Rosa Shand, June 6, 1988, PC, Shand.
17.Letter to author from Chrese Evans, July 10, 2014.
18.Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, July 17, 2012.
19.Letter to Philippa Hill, undated, PC, Hill.
20.Letter to Philippa Hill, undated, PC, Hill.
21.When she visited in the late 1980s, Olga remembered her mother’s long telephone conversation about these translations and how annoyed Svetlana had seemed about the whole thing. Author’s interview with Chrese Evans, Portland, OR, July 17, 2012.
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