Media: The daughter of Stalin died in the USA

In the USA, on November 22, the daughter of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin Svetlana Alliluyeva died. The information about this was published by the American newspaper The New York Times , emphasizing, however, that Olga could not be confirmed about this from the daughter of Alleiluyeva. According to these data, Alliluyeva (in the article is called the American name - Lana Peters) died in the nursing home in the city of Richland (Wisconsin). Olga lives in Portland (Oregon).

According to American journalists, Alliluyeva died of colon cancer. She was 85 years old. The state authorities did not report this death for a week.

ITAR-TASS recalls that Alliluyeva was born on February 28, 1926 in the family of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University and graduate school of the Academy of Public Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee, after which she worked as a translator from the English language and literary editor, RIA Novosti notes.

The only daughter of the leader of the Soviet power in the late 60s left her homeland. In recent years, Svetlana led an extremely closed lifestyle. She avoided communicating with journalists, and the biggest revelation of her life remained a book of memoirs “Twenty Letters to a Friend”, written in the summer of 1963 in the village of Zhukovka near Moscow. These memories were published in 1967.

Perhaps this is one of the best epistolary books of the twentieth century, says Anatoly Korolev, observer of RIA Novosti. As follows from the memoirs, Svetlana was almost cut off from birth from truthful information, even from the most elementary. As the greatest secret, her elder brother Vasily told her: "Do you know, our father used to be a Georgian." She was 6 years old, and she did not understand what it had to be a Georgian, and her brother explained: "The Georgians walked in the Circassians and cut all the daggers."

Svetlana survived the death of her mother as a terrible blow, but she found out with herself only many years later, already during the war years, when, training in the study of English, she came across a foreign magazine in an article about a father in which “Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide on the night of November 9, 1932.”

Remaining his widower, Stalin did not know how to raise his daughter, and her growth problems became a constant headache for him. It seemed to him all the time that she would grow up as a prostitute. Svetlana’s bare knees, then the first signs of turning the girl into a woman brought Stalin into anger, panic and confusion, the observer writes.

According to the memoirs, the length of Svetlana's skirts turned into torturer for torture. He brought the dressmaker his shirts and ordered to sew nights for his daughter from them. And when the pioneer sent him a photograph from the pioneer camp, where she was photographed in a skirt just above the knees, the Secretary General crossed out a picture with a red pencil, wrote on the back of fat: "Prostitute!" And he sent a picture back by the plane, which scared the entire pioneer camp.

The father refused his daughter in childhood and made demands on her as an adult. Svetlana had come to terms with the dictate for a long time, until, according to her, she did not find out about the suicide of her mother. Here for the first time, the daughter decided to think that the father could be wrong, and the doubt immediately turned into a rebellion.

In fact, Stalin first met with the debunking of the cult of the personality of Stalin in his own house, writes Anatoly Korolev. The rebellion of Svetlana, who went in character in her father, took apocalyptic forms. She fell in love with the Jew of the filmmaker Alexei Kapler, and Stalin was worth the titanic effort, so as not to shoot him, but only to put him in the camp. However, others followed the first rebellion.

In 1967, having received permission for the first time in her life to go abroad - to India for the funeral of Brajesh Singh, whom she called her husband in some interviews - Svetlana Alliluyeva immediately declared her desire to receive political asylum. This sensation, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, shocked the then world no less than a flight into space Yuri Gagarin.

Svetlana Alliluyeva was officially married three times. In 1944, she connected her fate with Grigory Morozov, a classmate of her brother Vasily. Subsequently, the marriage was unofficially terminated. The son of the couple Joseph Alliluyev, who died in 2008, was a cardiologist, a doctor of medical sciences.

In 1949, Svetlana married Yuri Zhdanov, the son of the secretary of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b) Andrei Zhdanov. From this marriage in 1950, the daughter of Ekaterina Zhdanova was born.

After the emigration, Svetlana Alliluyeva lived in Switzerland, England, the USA. In 1970, she married for the third time - for the architect William Peters, from whom she gave birth to her daughter Olga. Then she took the name in the American manner - Lana Peters. In the mid-80s, Alleiluyeva, along with her daughter Olga, returned to the USSR, however, having lived in Moscow and Georgia for about two years and not finding mutual understanding of the authorities and former friends, she went back to the United States.

Since then, she led a closed lifestyle in the small town of Richland in Wisconsin and practically did not communicate with reporters. In 2005, Alliluyeva gave an interview to the TV channel "Russia" for the film "Svetlana Alliluyeva and her men." In 2008, Stalin’s daughter starred in a 45-minute documentary “Svetlana about Svetlana”.