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Stalin's Daughter

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by Rosemary Sullivan


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  . “The Will to Be: Letters of Svetlana Alliluyeva to Rosa Shand.” Unpublished manuscript (166 pages) of Alliluyeva’s letters to Shand with Shand’s journal entries. PC, Shand.

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  Film and Television

  Earnest, Peter. “Peter Earnest in Conversation with Oleg Kalugin and Robert Rayle on Defection of Svetlana Alliluyeva,” Dec. 4, 2006. International Spy Museum, Washington, DC, www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/agent-storm/listen-to-the-audio/episode/the-litvinenko-murder-and-other-riddles-from-moscow.

  Kreml’-9 [Russian TV series] writers group. Svetlana Stalina: Pobeg iz sem’i [Svetlana Stalina: Escape from the Family], film, dir. Maksim Ivannikov, prod. Aleksei Pimanov, Oleg Vol’nov, and Sergei Medvedev. Telekompaniia “Ostankino” and Federal’naia sluzhba okhrany Rossiiskoi Federatsii [Federal Service for the Protection of the Russian Federation], 2003.

  “Mify o docheri Stalina” [Myths About Stalin’s Daughter]. Priamoi efir s Mikhailom Zelenskim [Live with Mikhail Zelensky]. Rossia-1, Moscow, Dec. 19, 2011.

  Svetlana, television documentary, dir. Irina Gedrovich. Fabryka Kino (distributor), 2008.

  Svetlana About Svetlana, film, writer, dir. Lana Parshina, 2008. Distributed by Icarus Films, 2009.

  Unpublished Interviews

  Meryle Secrest interviews with Svetlana Alliluyeva, London, Mar. 4–17, 1994. Meryle Secrest Collection, Audio recordings: Group 1, Tapes 1–21; Group 2, Tapes 1–28, Hoover Institution Archives.

  Rosamond Richardson interviews with Svetlana Alliluyev
a, Saffron Walden, 1991. Audio recordings, Tapes 1-6. Private Collection of Rosamond Richardson.

  Index

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  Abbeyfield Society, 600, 605, 606, 691n26

  Afghanistan War, 553, 562

  Akhmatov, Anna, 165, 436, 493, 683n13

  Alliluyev, Alexander (cousin), 147–48, 633

  affect of arrests on his family, 82

  arrest of his mother, 142–43, 144, 660n16

  father’s death and, 83

  release of his mother, 198, 199

  repercussions from Svetlana’s book denied by, 387

  suicide of Svetlana’s mother, 45, 50–51, 65, 651n34

  Svetlana and, during Great Terror, 146

  Svetlana and Kyra, 548

  Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union, 533, 558, 560

  Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union, theories about, 561

  at Zubalovo, 92

  Alliluyev, Fyodor (uncle), 16, 45, 146, 210, 632, 664n9

  Alliluyev, Ilya (grandson), 441, 505, 522, 523, 533, 545, 634

  Alliluyev, Joseph (son), 157, 235, 428, 617, 634, 639

  alcohol problem, 505, 532

  appearance, 158, 505, 522

  birth of, 132

  childhood, 132, 158, 201–2

  Communist Party and, 202

  defection attempt/request for US visit (1975), 441–46, 454–63

  KGB and, 304, 305, 331, 332, 379, 381, 434–35, 440, 445–46, 462–63

  in Komsomol, 227

  life in Russia, 434–35, 441, 536

  marriage to first wife, Elena, 257–58

  marriage to second wife, Lyuda, 505, 522–23, 532, 536, 551, 634

  resumes contact with Svetlana (1982), 505–6

  Russian relatives’ views of, 561–64

  Singh and, 245, 254, 256

  son Ilya, 441, 505, 522, 523, 533, 545, 634

  Stalin revered by, 212

  Stalin visits, 158

  Svetlana gets news of, from Smoluchowski (1974), 440–41

  Svetlana leaves the Soviet Union without seeing (1986), 560

  Svetlana phones (1975), 446

  Svetlana’s defection and, xvii, 298, 303–6, 320, 330–31, 369, 373, 406–7, 442, 532, 536–37

  Svetlana’s farewell before defecting, 258

  Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and, 515–19, 521–24, 532, 545, 554, 561, 562–63

  Zhukovka dacha, 532

  Alliluyev, Leonid (cousin), 83, 95, 633, 657–58n4, 660n25

  arrest and imprisonment of his mother, 145, 146

  daughter, Olga, 596

  memories of a young Svetlana, 90, 92

  mother’s mental illness, 196, 664n9

  Svetlana at Zhukovka and, 202, 203

  Svetlana’s book publication and, 387

  Svetlana’s defection and, 290, 304

  Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union, 533, 554, 558, 560

  Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union, theories about, 561–62

  Svetlana’s son Joseph and, 304, 561–62

  wife, Galina, 202, 203, 304, 561–62

  at Zubalovo, 92

  Alliluyev, Pavel (uncle), xv, 16, 32, 40, 65, 81, 83, 632

  army purge and, 82

  arrests of the Svanidzes and, 81–82

  heart attack and death, 82, 83, 84, 142, 210

  Kirov’s assassination and, 77

  pistol used in Svetlana’s mother’s suicide and, 42, 45, 65, 103

  Svetlana’s mother’s papers hidden by, 50–51

  Alliluyev, Sergei (cousin), 83, 141, 633

  Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign and, 147–48

  arrest of his mother, 142–43

  death of Beria and, 200

  Kapler affair and, 122

  release of his mother, 197, 198

  Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and, 533, 558, 560

  at Zubalovo, 92

  Alliluyev, Sergei (grandfather), 13, 16, 34, 65, 492, 548, 632

  arrests of family members and, 83

  death of, and loss of ideals, 147, 210

  memoirs of, 152

  Stalin and, 31, 32, 83

  World War II and, 95, 100

  at Zubalovo, 30–31, 32–34, 56

  Alliluyev, Vladimir (cousin), 83, 95, 601, 633, 660n16

  arrest and imprisonment of his mother, 145, 146

  book by, 601–3, 694n4

  descriptions of Svetlana, 158–59, 219, 246

  Kapler’s arrest and, 122

  on Morozov, 134

  release of his mother, 196

  on Svetlana’s relationships, 219

  Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and, 533, 551, 558, 560

  at Zubalovo, 92

  Alliluyeva, Anna (aunt), 13, 16, 31, 39, 40, 46–47, 65, 75, 75–88, 83, 131, 139, 145, 632

  apartment of, 84

  arrest and execution of her husband, xv, 84, 139

  arrest and imprisonment, xvi, 139, 144–45, 152

  commitment to mental hospital and death, 197

  denial and, 90

  denounced by family members, 146, 197, 660n16

  files on, opened, 146, 664n9

  memoirs of and response to, 152–54

  mental deterioration of, 196, 197, 210, 664n9

  resistance of, 145

  return from prison, 196–97, 198, 664n9

  Stalin’s family and, World War II, 94–95

  at Zubalovo, 30

  Alliluyeva, Elena (daughter-in-law), 258, 505, 533, 634

  Alliluyeva, Kyra (cousin), 142, 146, 633

  arrest of, 143–44

  denounces aunt, 146, 197, 660n16

  exile in Shuya, 198–99

  interview on suicide of Svetlana’s mother, 596–97

  release of, 196

  Richardson book and, 595, 596

  on Svetlana’s relationships, 219

  in Tbilisi with Svetlana, 547–48

  Alliluyeva, Lyuda (daugher-in-law), 505, 522–23, 532, 536, 551, 634

  Alliluyeva, Olga (grandmother), 16, 39, 56–57, 57, 116, 131, 476, 492, 548, 594, 632

  alienation from her husband, 32–33

  Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign and, 146–47

  death of, 197, 210

  distrust of Stalin, 32, 33, 84

  Kapler affair and, 122

  Svetlana’s mother’s suicide confirmed by, 103

  wall of silence and, 89–90

  World War II and, 95, 100

  at Zubalovo, 30, 31–32

  Alliluyeva, Svetlana Iosifovna

  adventurousness of, 26

  alcohol and, 450, 454, 484, 546, 685n1

  appearance, 1–2, 33, 106, 113, 163–64, 233, 369–70, 484

  books by (see Book for Granddaughters, A; Faraway Music, The; Only One Year; Twenty Letters to a Friend)

  burden of being Stalin’s daughter, 215–16, 218, 223–24, 229–30, 234–35, 255, 285, 346–47, 431, 493, 508, 528, 538, 546, 569, 578–79

  charitable trusts, 308, 344–45, 409, 474, 477–78, 568

  charm and likability, 221, 285, 299, 321, 324

  contrasted/compared to her father, xvii, 528, 593

  description of, by Alexandra Tolstoya, 344–45

  description of, by the Belinkovs, 360

  description of, by cousin Vladimir Alliluyev, 158–59, 219, 246

  description of, by Dr. Ram Lohia, 246

  description of, by Edmund Wilson, 369–70

  description of, by nephew Alexander Burdonsky, 535–39, 556

  description of, by Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky, 585

  description of, by Pamela Egremont, 593–94

  description of, by Raoul Ortiz, 591–92

  description of, by Rosamond Richardson, 507–8

  description of, by Rosa Shand, 435

  description of, b
y Suresh Singh, 265

  description of, by Vanessa Thomas, 589

  earnings and wealth, xvi, 296, 307, 308–9, 344, 357–58, 363, 618 (see also finances; money problems below)

  emotional nature and passion, 220, 222–24, 353–54, 366, 367, 372, 398–99

  English, mastery of language, 22, 102–3, 125, 242, 256, 291, 296, 303, 601, 604, 620, 650n10, 650n15

  family of, 13, 15–20, 65, 65–66, 75, 76, 89–90, 130–31, 167, 200, 201–2, 209–10, 238, 492

  family traits in, 33

  fear of her father, by others, 146, 163, 164, 165, 167–68, 221

  imperious side of, 223, 228, 249–50, 528, 529

  impulsiveness and risk-taking, xvii, 8, 280, 296, 306, 398–99, 401, 473, 575–76

  intelligence of, 113, 302, 370

  isolation and loneliness, 206, 212, 216, 227, 230, 232, 336, 337, 351, 435, 450–53, 468, 481, 544, 547, 516

  kindness of, 90, 234, 434, 610

  letters, style of, 127, 127n

  name of, 3, 217, 389

  nomadic life, xvii, 349, 479, 481, 491, 497, 502, 506, 507, 555, 576, 591–92, 597, 605, 608, 611 (see also specific residences)

  paranoia of, 350, 386, 419, 457, 491, 514, 554, 604, 616

  perfume named after, 204

  politics and philosophy of, 345, 347–48, 370, 374–77, 435–36, 601–3, 604–5, 613–17

  as princess in the Kremlin, 14, 137, 204, 217, 218, 222, 223, 280, 579

  psychology of, 60, 64, 136, 138, 185, 222, 224, 227, 336, 337, 399, 400–401, 416–17, 454, 491–93, 505, 513–16, 583, 667n5

  religion and, 225, 225, 229–30, 486, 433, 441, 480, 485, 486, 508, 544, 576

  Russian stoicism, 439

  sexual behavior and, 218, 228–29, 289

  spirituality of, 227, 486, 507, 623

  temper and emotional explosions, 249, 250, 266, 322, 354, 405, 513–14, 586–87, 590, 618, 620

  tragedy of, 223, 508

  —1926–1953 (Kremlin Years), 13–190, 38

  abortions, 134

  adolescence, 89, 89–123, 105

  ambitions, 127

  Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign and, 146, 150, 154–55

  birthday, 6th, 26

  birthday, 7th, 54

  birthday, 17th, 118

  birthday, 27th, 180

  birth of, 15

  bodyguard for, 100, 108–9, 115, 118, 128, 129, 632

  childhood, early, 13–37, 21

  childhood, mother’s death and, 38–54

  childhood, post–death of her mother, 55–74

 

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