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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Unpublished Interviews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.
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