Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's daughter
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva Stalina, is the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife. Svetlana's defection to the west in 1967 caused an international uproar, which the United States used as a public relations coup, during the Cold War. She entered the United States embassy in New Delhi, India and presented a written statement of her desire to defect and was offered political asylum which she accepted. Her memoirs, "Twenty Letters to a Friend", written in 1963 about her life in Russia, was published in the United States in 1980 and became a best-seller. She wrote three more books, including "Only One Year," an autobiography published in 1969. Lana was married 4 times, the last marriage was in 1970. In 1982 she moved to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England and then returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 where she was granted citizenship. She settled in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Russia until 1986 and then resettled, once again, to the United States. Lana relocated to England in the 1990s and then returned to the United States, settling in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 2010 where she died from complications of colon cancer at the age of 85.∼Lana Peters — who was known internationally by her previous name, Svetlana Alliluyeva — died of colon cancer Nov. 22 in Wisconsin, where she lived off and on after becoming a U.S. citizen,Richland County Coroner Mary Turner said Monday. She was 85.
Svetlana was Communist leader Joseph Stalin's only daughter. Her mother was his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Raised by a nurse she only occasionally saw her parents. She was only six when her mother died (there are various theories as to how she met her death).
Svetlana's first love was a Jewish filmmaker Alexei Kapler. Her father disapproved of the romance and Kepler was sentenced to ten years in a labour camp in Siberia. A year later, when she was 17, she fell in love with Grigori Morozov a fellow student at Moscow University. They married and had a son Joseph in 1945 but divorced two years later.
She married her second husband in 1949 the year she graduated from Moscow University. He was Yuri Zhdanov. They had a daughter, Ekaterina in 1950 but divorced soon afterwards.
In 1953 her father died and she adopted her mother's maiden name. She worked as a teacher and translator in Moscow. She first met Brajesh Singh, an Indian communist when he visited Moscow in 1963. He returned to Moscow in 1965 to work as a translator. Although the two became close they were not allowed to marry. A year later he died and she was allowed to travel to India to take his ashes back so that his family could scatter them in the Ganges River.
On 6 March 1967 she went to the US Embassy in New Delhi and formally asked the American Ambassador for political asylum. She left India immediately and moved via Switzerland to the United States. Upon her arrival in April 1967 Alliluyeva gave a press conference denouncing her father's regime and the Soviet government.
She settled in the United States in April 1967 and published her memoirs, Twenty Letters to a Friend, (1967), and later Only One Year (1969). She later became a United States citizen and married, William Wesley Peters, an American architect in 1970. Shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Lana, the couple separated. She moved to Cambridge, United Kingdom in 1982 but two years later returned to the Soviet Union and settled in Tbilisi. She left again in 1986 and returned to the United States. In the 1990s she moved back to England but unable to settle she returned finally to the United States
∼Born and raised in Moscow, Svetlana "Lana" Parshina moved to the United States at 21. With multiple academic degrees, Lana Parshina initially worked as a Russian/English/German interpreter who had worked on projects with Library of Congress, a freelance journalist, and a public relations consultant/crisis manager in New York City. But, filmmaking was her passion and she left a vibrant career in crisis management to embrace her dream. She turned to New York University Tisch School of the Arts to learn filmmaking. In several years, she had produced a number of independent films. Svetlana about Svetlana, a documentary on Joseph Stalin's daughter - Ms. Svetlana Alliluyeva, is her directorial debut
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In this undated photo provided by Icarus Films, shows Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. Newly declassified files show the FBI was gathering details from informants on how Alliluyeva's arrival in the United State was affecting international relations after her high-profile defection in 1967. Alliluyeva, or Lana Peters, Stalin's only daughter, died in a Wisconsin nursing home in 2011. She was 85. ************************************
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva Stalina, is the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife. Svetlana's defection to the west in 1967 caused an international uproar, which the United States used as a public relations coup, during the Cold War. She entered the United States embassy in New Delhi, India and presented a written statement of her desire to defect and was offered political asylum which she accepted. Her memoirs, "Twenty Letters to a Friend", written in 1963 about her life in Russia, was published in the United States in 1980 and became a best-seller. She wrote three more books, including "Only One Year," an autobiography published in 1969. Lana was married 4 times, the last marriage was in 1970. In 1982 she moved to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England and then returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 where she was granted citizenship. She settled in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Russia until 1986 and then resettled, once again, to the United States. Lana relocated to England in the 1990s and then returned to the United States, settling in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 2010 where she died from complications of colon cancer at the age of 85.∼Lana Peters — who was known internationally by her previous name, Svetlana Alliluyeva — died of colon cancer Nov. 22 in Wisconsin, where she lived off and on after becoming a U.S. citizen,Richland County Coroner Mary Turner said Monday. She was 85.
Svetlana was Communist leader Joseph Stalin's only daughter. Her mother was his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Raised by a nurse she only occasionally saw her parents. She was only six when her mother died (there are various theories as to how she met her death).
Svetlana's first love was a Jewish filmmaker Alexei Kapler. Her father disapproved of the romance and Kepler was sentenced to ten years in a labour camp in Siberia. A year later, when she was 17, she fell in love with Grigori Morozov a fellow student at Moscow University. They married and had a son Joseph in 1945 but divorced two years later.
She married her second husband in 1949 the year she graduated from Moscow University. He was Yuri Zhdanov. They had a daughter, Ekaterina in 1950 but divorced soon afterwards.
In 1953 her father died and she adopted her mother's maiden name. She worked as a teacher and translator in Moscow. She first met Brajesh Singh, an Indian communist when he visited Moscow in 1963. He returned to Moscow in 1965 to work as a translator. Although the two became close they were not allowed to marry. A year later he died and she was allowed to travel to India to take his ashes back so that his family could scatter them in the Ganges River.
On 6 March 1967 she went to the US Embassy in New Delhi and formally asked the American Ambassador for political asylum. She left India immediately and moved via Switzerland to the United States. Upon her arrival in April 1967 Alliluyeva gave a press conference denouncing her father's regime and the Soviet government.
She settled in the United States in April 1967 and published her memoirs, Twenty Letters to a Friend, (1967), and later Only One Year (1969). She later became a United States citizen and married, William Wesley Peters, an American architect in 1970. Shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Lana, the couple separated. She moved to Cambridge, United Kingdom in 1982 but two years later returned to the Soviet Union and settled in Tbilisi. She left again in 1986 and returned to the United States. In the 1990s she moved back to England but unable to settle she returned finally to the United States
∼Born and raised in Moscow, Svetlana "Lana" Parshina moved to the United States at 21. With multiple academic degrees, Lana Parshina initially worked as a Russian/English/German interpreter who had worked on projects with Library of Congress, a freelance journalist, and a public relations consultant/crisis manager in New York City. But, filmmaking was her passion and she left a vibrant career in crisis management to embrace her dream. She turned to New York University Tisch School of the Arts to learn filmmaking. In several years, she had produced a number of independent films. Svetlana about Svetlana, a documentary on Joseph Stalin's daughter - Ms. Svetlana Alliluyeva, is her directorial debut
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In this undated photo provided by Icarus Films, shows Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. Newly declassified files show the FBI was gathering details from informants on how Alliluyeva's arrival in the United State was affecting international relations after her high-profile defection in 1967. Alliluyeva, or Lana Peters, Stalin's only daughter, died in a Wisconsin nursing home in 2011. She was 85. ************************************
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's daughter
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva Stalina, is the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife. Svetlana's defection to the west in 1967 caused an international uproar, which the United States used as a public relations coup, during the Cold War. She entered the United States embassy in New Delhi, India and presented a written statement of her desire to defect and was offered political asylum which she accepted. Her memoirs, "Twenty Letters to a Friend", written in 1963 about her life in Russia, was published in the United States in 1980 and became a best-seller. She wrote three more books, including "Only One Year," an autobiography published in 1969. Lana was married 4 times, the last marriage was in 1970. In 1982 she moved to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England and then returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 where she was granted citizenship. She settled in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Russia until 1986 and then resettled, once again, to the United States. Lana relocated to England in the 1990s and then returned to the United States, settling in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 2010 where she died from complications of colon cancer at the age of 85.∼Lana Peters — who was known internationally by her previous name, Svetlana Alliluyeva — died of colon cancer Nov. 22 in Wisconsin, where she lived off and on after becoming a U.S. citizen,Richland County Coroner Mary Turner said Monday. She was 85.
Svetlana was Communist leader Joseph Stalin's only daughter. Her mother was his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Raised by a nurse she only occasionally saw her parents. She was only six when her mother died (there are various theories as to how she met her death).
Svetlana's first love was a Jewish filmmaker Alexei Kapler. Her father disapproved of the romance and Kepler was sentenced to ten years in a labour camp in Siberia. A year later, when she was 17, she fell in love with Grigori Morozov a fellow student at Moscow University. They married and had a son Joseph in 1945 but divorced two years later.
She married her second husband in 1949 the year she graduated from Moscow University. He was Yuri Zhdanov. They had a daughter, Ekaterina in 1950 but divorced soon afterwards.
In 1953 her father died and she adopted her mother's maiden name. She worked as a teacher and translator in Moscow. She first met Brajesh Singh, an Indian communist when he visited Moscow in 1963. He returned to Moscow in 1965 to work as a translator. Although the two became close they were not allowed to marry. A year later he died and she was allowed to travel to India to take his ashes back so that his family could scatter them in the Ganges River.
On 6 March 1967 she went to the US Embassy in New Delhi and formally asked the American Ambassador for political asylum. She left India immediately and moved via Switzerland to the United States. Upon her arrival in April 1967 Alliluyeva gave a press conference denouncing her father's regime and the Soviet government.
She settled in the United States in April 1967 and published her memoirs, Twenty Letters to a Friend, (1967), and later Only One Year (1969). She later became a United States citizen and married, William Wesley Peters, an American architect in 1970. Shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Lana, the couple separated. She moved to Cambridge, United Kingdom in 1982 but two years later returned to the Soviet Union and settled in Tbilisi. She left again in 1986 and returned to the United States. In the 1990s she moved back to England but unable to settle she returned finally to the United States
∼Born and raised in Moscow, Svetlana "Lana" Parshina moved to the United States at 21. With multiple academic degrees, Lana Parshina initially worked as a Russian/English/German interpreter who had worked on projects with Library of Congress, a freelance journalist, and a public relations consultant/crisis manager in New York City. But, filmmaking was her passion and she left a vibrant career in crisis management to embrace her dream. She turned to New York University Tisch School of the Arts to learn filmmaking. In several years, she had produced a number of independent films. Svetlana about Svetlana, a documentary on Joseph Stalin's daughter - Ms. Svetlana Alliluyeva, is her directorial debut
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In this undated photo provided by Icarus Films, shows Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. Newly declassified files show the FBI was gathering details from informants on how Alliluyeva's arrival in the United State was affecting international relations after her high-profile defection in 1967. Alliluyeva, or Lana Peters, Stalin's only daughter, died in a Wisconsin nursing home in 2011. She was 85. ************************************
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva Stalina, is the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife. Svetlana's defection to the west in 1967 caused an international uproar, which the United States used as a public relations coup, during the Cold War. She entered the United States embassy in New Delhi, India and presented a written statement of her desire to defect and was offered political asylum which she accepted. Her memoirs, "Twenty Letters to a Friend", written in 1963 about her life in Russia, was published in the United States in 1980 and became a best-seller. She wrote three more books, including "Only One Year," an autobiography published in 1969. Lana was married 4 times, the last marriage was in 1970. In 1982 she moved to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England and then returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 where she was granted citizenship. She settled in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Russia until 1986 and then resettled, once again, to the United States. Lana relocated to England in the 1990s and then returned to the United States, settling in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 2010 where she died from complications of colon cancer at the age of 85.∼Lana Peters — who was known internationally by her previous name, Svetlana Alliluyeva — died of colon cancer Nov. 22 in Wisconsin, where she lived off and on after becoming a U.S. citizen,Richland County Coroner Mary Turner said Monday. She was 85.
Svetlana was Communist leader Joseph Stalin's only daughter. Her mother was his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Raised by a nurse she only occasionally saw her parents. She was only six when her mother died (there are various theories as to how she met her death).
Svetlana's first love was a Jewish filmmaker Alexei Kapler. Her father disapproved of the romance and Kepler was sentenced to ten years in a labour camp in Siberia. A year later, when she was 17, she fell in love with Grigori Morozov a fellow student at Moscow University. They married and had a son Joseph in 1945 but divorced two years later.
She married her second husband in 1949 the year she graduated from Moscow University. He was Yuri Zhdanov. They had a daughter, Ekaterina in 1950 but divorced soon afterwards.
In 1953 her father died and she adopted her mother's maiden name. She worked as a teacher and translator in Moscow. She first met Brajesh Singh, an Indian communist when he visited Moscow in 1963. He returned to Moscow in 1965 to work as a translator. Although the two became close they were not allowed to marry. A year later he died and she was allowed to travel to India to take his ashes back so that his family could scatter them in the Ganges River.
On 6 March 1967 she went to the US Embassy in New Delhi and formally asked the American Ambassador for political asylum. She left India immediately and moved via Switzerland to the United States. Upon her arrival in April 1967 Alliluyeva gave a press conference denouncing her father's regime and the Soviet government.
She settled in the United States in April 1967 and published her memoirs, Twenty Letters to a Friend, (1967), and later Only One Year (1969). She later became a United States citizen and married, William Wesley Peters, an American architect in 1970. Shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Lana, the couple separated. She moved to Cambridge, United Kingdom in 1982 but two years later returned to the Soviet Union and settled in Tbilisi. She left again in 1986 and returned to the United States. In the 1990s she moved back to England but unable to settle she returned finally to the United States
∼Born and raised in Moscow, Svetlana "Lana" Parshina moved to the United States at 21. With multiple academic degrees, Lana Parshina initially worked as a Russian/English/German interpreter who had worked on projects with Library of Congress, a freelance journalist, and a public relations consultant/crisis manager in New York City. But, filmmaking was her passion and she left a vibrant career in crisis management to embrace her dream. She turned to New York University Tisch School of the Arts to learn filmmaking. In several years, she had produced a number of independent films. Svetlana about Svetlana, a documentary on Joseph Stalin's daughter - Ms. Svetlana Alliluyeva, is her directorial debut
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In this undated photo provided by Icarus Films, shows Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. Newly declassified files show the FBI was gathering details from informants on how Alliluyeva's arrival in the United State was affecting international relations after her high-profile defection in 1967. Alliluyeva, or Lana Peters, Stalin's only daughter, died in a Wisconsin nursing home in 2011. She was 85. ************************************
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