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The man protested, but she persuaded him. Then we started to walk away. “Sprechen Sie Deutsch?” the man called out. She trudged onward, without looking back. “People think that I have a German accent, and I usually say, ‘Yes, I had a German grandmother,’ ” she said, breaking into a laugh.

In the early eighteen-nineties, when Svetlana’s German grandmother, Olga, was a teen-ager, she climbed out of a window in her home in Georgia to elope. Olga’s daughter, Nadya Alliluyeva, when she was sixteen, ran off with Joseph Stalin, a thirty-eight-year-old seminarian, poet, and family friend who had become a revolutionary leader.

Stalin had a son, Yakov, from a previous marriage, and he and Alliluyeva had two more children, a boy named Vasily and Svetlana, who was Stalin’s favorite. Throughout her youth, they played a game in which she would send short letters to him, bossing him about: “I order you to take me to the theatre”; “I order you to let me go to the movies.” He would write back: “

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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (28 February November ) was the youngest child and only daughter of Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She defected to the United States in and became a naturalized citizen in

Biography[]

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in , the daughter of Joseph Stalin and the sister of Vasily Stalin. Her mother shot herself in Alliluyeva fell in love with a year-old Jewish filmmaker, Aleksei Kapler, when she was 16, leading to her father sending Kapler to ten years of exile and hard labor. She married another Jewish man in , but they divorced amicably in She went on to marry the son of Stalin's right-hand man Andrei Zhdanov in , but they divorced in After her father's death in , Alliluyeva worked as a lecturer and translator in Moscow, and she fell in love with the IndiancommunistBrajesh Singh, although they were not allowed to marry. In , she defected to the United States at the American consula

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Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Alliluyeva in January

Born

Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina

()28 February

Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Died22 November () (aged&#;85)

Richland Center, Wisconsin, U.S.

Cause&#;of deathProblems caused bygd colon cancerNationalityOther&#;namesLana PetersOccupation(s)Writer and lecturerKnown&#;forDaughter of Joseph StalinSpouses

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Children

• Iosif Alliluyev (–)
• Yekaterina "Katya" Zhdanova (b. )
• Olga Peters / Chrese Evans (b. )

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