Alliluyeva, Svetlana

Alliluyeva, Svetlana

▪ Russian writer
Alliluyeva also spelled  Allilueva,  original name  Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina, married name Lana Peters  
born Feb. 28, 1926, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.

      Russian-born daughter of Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin; (Stalin, Joseph) her defection to the United States in 1967 caused an international sensation.

      Alliluyeva was Stalin's only daughter and a product of his second marriage with Nadezhda Alliluyeva, who committed suicide in 1932. Alliluyeva graduated from Moscow University (1949), where she taught Soviet literature and English language (1953–65) before joining the Progres publishing house as a translator of Russian literature into English (1965–66). After the death of her third husband in 1966, she was permitted to leave the Soviet Union to visit his native India. In New Delhi she circumvented the Soviet Embassy and, with the help of American officials, defected to the United States in the spring of 1967.

      She burned her Soviet passport, became an American citizen, signed a lucrative publishing contract, and began translating her memoirs. The resulting work, Twenty Letters to a Friend (1967), was a telling account of her life as Stalin's youngest child. Her follow-up book, Only One Year (1969), described the events surrounding her defection. In 1982 Alliluyeva left the United States to live in England with Olga Peters, the daughter of her failed fourth marriage, before returning to the Soviet Union (1984), where Soviet officials welcomed her and restored her Soviet citizenship. Her third book, The Faraway Music (1984), outlined her disenchantment with the United States and Great Britain. After clashing with Soviet authorities, she renounced her Soviet citizenship once again and resettled in the United States (1986). She lived alternately in the United States and England.

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