Communism and, 33, 73–74
dacha at Kholodnaya Rechka, with Stalin, 135–36
dacha at Kuntsevo, with Stalin, 187
dacha at Sochi, 59, 61, 79, 94, 95, 97
dacha at Sokolovka, 39–40
dacha at Zubalovo, 28–35, 91–92, 106, 110, 238, 486
daughter Katya born, 166
education, early and high school, 25, 66–70, 67, 73, 79–80, 91–92, 106–9, 126–27
education, major in modern US history, Moscow University, 126–29, 132, 158
education, master’s in Russian literature, Moscow University, 158, 172
films, books, and, 109, 114–15
House on the Embankment apartment, 124, 130, 135, 146, 147, 163, 171
love affair with Kapler, 112–23, 129
marriage to Grigori Morozov, 124, 129–35
marriage to Yuri Zhdanov, 160–71
mother Nadya and, 20–28, 39, 103, 109, 114
mother Nadya’s suicide and, 21, 51–52, 53, 54, 56, 102–3, 155–56, 173, 238, 345, 441, 481, 505, 602, 606–7, 622–23, 656n17, 656n30
nanny, Alexandra Andreevna, importance of, 24, 85, 210, 239
parenting by, 132–33, 158, 201–2
poem by, 109
pregnancy, first with son, Joseph, 131
pregnancy, second with daughter Katya and difficulty, 166
robust health developed, 73
romantic interest in Sergo Beria, 136–37
security measures and surveillance of, 56, 79–80, 115, 121, 128, 129, 164, 165
son Joseph and, 132, 156
Stalin and, correspondence with, 59, 61–62, 71, 90–91, 100–101, 133, 151, 166–67, 169–70, 173–74
Stalin and, last encounter, 173–75, 662n40
Stalin buys car for, 172
Stalin’s anger at, and physical violence, 121, 155, 174–75
as Stalin’s daughter, status, 108–9, 127, 128
Stalin’s death and, 179, 179–80, 183–88, 663–64n23
Stalin’s pet names and imaginary double for, 60–61, 62, 637n10
Stalin’s relationship with, xv–xvi, xvii–xviii, 27, 36, 55, 55–65, 65, 72, 73, 85, 90–91, 100–104, 125, 126–27, 131–32, 133, 135–36, 154–56, 159–60, 166–75, 180, 438
Stalin’s true nature, awareness of, 123, 156, 188, 374–76
travel restrictions on, 92
“vanishing” of people in her life, 35, 75–88, 89–90, 98, 188, 239, 299
World War II and, 92–102, 106, 110–12, 112
World War II and, housing in Kuibyshev, 100–101, 102
—1953–1967 (life in the Soviet Union after Stalin), 193–272
aunts’ return from prison, 196–99
Beria blamed for Stalin’s evil acts, 199–200, 374, 593, 678n15
books and photographs, 204
brother Vasili’s death and, 230
Communist Party and, 204–5, 248, 252
conversion to Russian Orthodox faith, 225, 225, 229–30, 486
dacha in Zhukovka, 202–3, 221, 236
defection, idea of, 267, 268, 269–71
defense of journalist Ilya Ehrenburg, 204–5
defense of writers Sinyavsky and Daniel, 252
elegiac letter to Singh’s family, 256–57
at Gorky Institute, 214–15, 216, 227, 229, 250, 251, 256
graduate degree awarded to, 203–4
hospitalization and meeting Singh, 241–43, 668n3
House on the Embankment apartment, 201, 221
India, permission to travel to, 256, 257
India trip, 260–72
at Institute of World Economics and International Affairs, 234–35
Kapler affair renewed, 206–9, 207, 214
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech and, 211–13, 216, 301
Leningrad visit, 209–10
life of, at age 35, 227
lifestyle of, 201–2
marriage to cousin, Ivan (Johnreed) Svanidze, 230–32, 235, 667n12
memoir of, 236–40, 253 (see also Twenty Letters to a Friend)
Moscow University teaching position canceled, 301
palm reading for, 234
privileges and influence, as Stalin’s daughter, 201–2, 235, 236
Samoilov love affair, 219–23
sexual behavior and gossip about, 218, 228–29
Singh and, 241, 241–57
Singh’s death and, 255–56
Sinyavsky love affair, 227–29, 667n5
social life and friends, 217, 232–36
state control of, 204, 247–48, 250, 254–55, 258, 259, 261–62
surveillance of, 236, 243, 244, 262
Tomsky love affair, 218
travel abroad denied, 254–55
—1967 (defection from the Soviet Union), 1–9, 275–312, 470–71
book deal and Soviet propaganda against her, 308–9
British response to, 311
children (adult) left in the Soviet Union, xvii, 280–81, 298, 298, 303–6
CIA and Robert Rayle, 2–9, 275, 275, 278, 281–85, 291, 292, 299–300
dreams of her future, 299
emotional response to defection, 292
explanation for her defection, 281, 310–11, 312, 315
fear of being sent back, 297, 299, 308
flight out of India, 6, 275
Greenbaum as lawyer for, 294–95, 296, 298–302, 306, 307,
idea for defecting, xvi, 268–72
India and, 1–8, 268–72
India’s official response, 287–88
Italy and, 278–81, 282, 284, 287
Johnson administration and, 276–77, 278, 309
Kennan sent by US State Department to help, 292–96, 301, 310, 315, 316, 318
reaches the free world, 285
refused asylum by Australia and New Zealand, 279
Soviet hunt for, 299, 306
Soviet revenge and, 280–81, 289, 291, 327
Switzerland grants asylum, 279, 282, 284, 285, 291–95, 299–310, 394
threat to seek the help of the press and, 5, 6, 288
US Embassy, New Delhi and, 1, 9, 260, 262, 267, 637
US State Department and, 1–8, 275–76, 291, 296, 309–10
US visa, 299
—1967–1982 (life in America), 313–497
American culture and, xvii, 7, 308, 351, 357, 430, 431–32, 478
as American citizen Lana Peters, 465–82
in Bedford Village, home of Cass Canfield, 341
books planned by, 495
in Bridgehampton, Long Island, home of Eleanor Friede, 340–41
in Bristol, Rhode Island, home of Ruth Biggs, 345
Britain, planned move to (1982), 494–97
Britain, trip to (1981), 489–90
Bushnell affair, 448–49
in California (Oceanside, Carlsbad, and La Jolla), 447–64
car purchased by, 324, 324, 358
children (Joseph and Katya) in the Soviet Union, relationship with, 320, 369, 373, 379, 381, 406–7, 435–36, 441–46, 536–37
CIA and, 357, 470–71, 525, 673n34
daughter (Olga Peters), pregnancy and birth, 410–13, 413
daughter (Olga Peters), relationship with, 421–22, 430, 447, 448, 453, 466, 478, 479–82, 488, 493, 496, 690n50
emotional/physical breakdown, 449–53
finances and, 404, 409, 410, 412, 420–21, 424–27, 473, 477–78, 489, 491
Fischer love affair, 350–56, 357, 361, 362, 363–67, 369, 371–73, 381, 382, 383, 389
happiest moment of her life remembered, 414–15
Hayward love affair, 333, 334–36, 337
Kennan and (see Kennan, George)
Kennan family and residence at farm, 324–26, 333, 338 (see also Kennan, Annelise; Kennan, Joan)
KGB abduction plot, 313–14
KGB and, 327, 328, 342–43, 346, 378–81, 407, 439, 461
Krimsky-Kurpel episode, 441–46, 454–61, 466
in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 488, 4
90, 497
lawyer for, E. Parker Hayden, Jr., 474
lawyer for, Greenbaum and firm, 341, 342, 477–78, 638
letters from the public, 292, 320–21, 359, 388–89, 413, 439, 474
marriage proposals, 292
marriage to Wesley Peters, 388, 388, 396–427, 408, 454, 472, 478, 489–90, 582–83
media and, 281–83, 287, 289, 291, 310, 312, 313, 314, 318–20, 321, 327, 330–32, 346, 385–86, 474–75, 489
in Nantucket, home of Alan Schwartz, 340
in New York, home of Maurice Greenbaum, 342
open letter to Pasternak, 305, 311
in Pennington, New Jersey, 491, 497
personal security detail for, 314–15, 316, 317–18, 321, 322, 325
PR firm for, 310, 315, 318, 320
in Princeton, Christmas emergency call as prank, 351, 677n5
in Princeton, home at 50 Wilson Road, 349, 363, 368–69, 429–31, 435, 438–39
in Princeton, rental, 349–51, 361
in Princeton, return from California, 465–82
in Princeton, return from Taliesin, 427, 428–46
psychiatrist for, 453–54
Robert Rayle (CIA agent) and, 357, 469–70
Rosa Shand and, 433–37, 483–88, 495–96
security concerns, 439
Soviet citizenship revoked, 385
Soviet passport, 2, 6, 270, 272, 333
Soviet’s anti-Svetlana campaign, 326, 328–32, 337
Stalin’s gold rumors and, 309, 394, 416, 471, 673n28
surveillance of, 350
Taliesin, 389–405, 408, 471–72
Taliesin, moving out of, 421–23
Taliesin, Olgivanna Wright and, 395–99, 402–3, 409, 410–11, 412, 416–20
Tolstoy’s daughter and, 344
US, arrival in, 313, 313, 315–17
US citizenship and, 405, 463–64, 466–68
US “residence status,” 357
in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, visit to Edmund Wilson, 369–71
—1982–2011 (life in Britain, return to the Soviet Union, and return to the US), 499–623
American reality, 569
anonymity sought by, 561, 578
ashes of, scattering by daughter, Olga, 623
as author, 503, 504, 511–12, 515, 570–71, 576, 579, 585–86, 594–96, 598–99
in Britain, 501–19, 571, 576–607
in Britain, circle of friends, 506–8, 510, 514, 518–19, 583–85, 586, 589–94, 597–98 (see also Lobanov-Rostovsky, Nina; Thomas, Hugh and Vanessa; specific people)
British press and, 509–11
CIA and, 570, 571, 574–75, 577, 691n21
conversion to Roman Catholicism, 508
daughter Katya and, 533, 544–45, 549, 585–87
daughter Olga and, 508, 517, 518, 524, 529–30, 546, 547, 548, 552–53, 556, 565, 570, 573–74, 576, 580, 583, 600, 605, 609, 620
death of, 620–23
death of Jerzy Kosinski and, 579–80
death of Wesley Peters and, 582–83
France, move to, 576
Gorbachev and, 550, 552, 553–54
Gorbachev and, lecturing on, 568–69
granddaughter Anya, 521, 585–86, 634
grandson Ilya, 441, 505, 522, 523, 533, 545, 634
happiness and, 599
health issues, 552–53, 554, 574, 613, 617
KGB and, 544, 554
last words, letter to her daughter, 623, 696n42
loss of possessions, 519, 555
media and, 502, 524, 527–29, 558, 566–67, 578–79, 590–91, 603–4, 618, 619–20, 695n27
money problems, 503–4, 516–17, 567–68, 570–71, 574, 587–88, 600, 610–11
peace rallies and, 577–78
review of cousin Vladimir’s book, 601–3
Richardson book and, 595, 596, 643
Robert Rayle (CIA agent) and, 566, 570–71, 575, 609, 613, 615–16, 617, 618, 619
Russian assumption about borrowing money, 568
sixtieth birthday, 552
son Joseph and, 505–6, 515–19, 521–24, 532, 545, 554, 560, 561, 562–63, 617
Soviet passport reissued, 524
Soviet passport surrendered, 560
Soviet state pension given to, 531, 560
Soviet Union, defection back to, 515–59, 520
Soviet Union, departure from, 560–61
Soviet Union, Moscow residence, 531
Soviet Union, permission to leave, 550–52, 555–58
Soviet Union, press conference upon defecting back to, 520, 525–26
Soviet Union, privileges in, 542–43
Soviet Union, return as a mistake, 534, 539, 549, 550, 551
Soviet Union return, Russian relatives and, 533–34, 547–48, 558, 560
Soviet Union return, theories about, 561–64
Soviet Union return, visit to Tbilisi, Georgia, 539–40
Stalin, feelings about, 538, 546
suicide attempt, 581–82
Traill’s meddling and, 514–15, 548–49
Turner love affair, 571–74
Turner’s death, 574
using name Lana Peters, 566, 589, 590–91, 612, 616, 619
US final years, 608, 608–23
US passport confiscated by Soviets, 524, 551
US passport secretly passed to, in Moscow, 557
US return, Wisconsin, various residences, 561, 565–67, 574, 576, 608, 608–23
Alliluyeva, Zhenya (aunt), xvi, 16, 65, 75, 139, 632
arrest of, 139, 141–42, 146, 151–52
arrest of friends and relatives, 81, 82
arrest of her second husband, 144
death of her first husband and, 82, 83
denounces sister-in-law, 146, 197, 660n16
House on the Embankment residence, 131
refuses Stalin’s request to protect Svetlana, 94
return from prison, 196, 197–98
Svetlana’s mother’s suicide and, 43, 50–51
visit to Kuntsevo, 198
Alliluyeva Charitable Trust and Alliluyeva Trust, 308, 409, 474, 568
Amarantides, John, 408
Ambassador’s Report (Bowles), 267
Ameridzhibe, Nina, 545
Amin, Kamal, 393–94, 399, 401, 407, 416–17, 419
Anderson, Marie, 618–19, 641
Anderson, Raymond, 566
Andreyev, Andrey, 75
Andropov, Yuri, 316, 327, 563, 638
sabotage plan against Svetlana by, 378–82
successor for, 527
thwarts Svetlana’s son’s defection, 462
Andropov, Yuri (son), 520
Arbatov, Georgy, 459
Arizona Republic newspaper, 400
Ashkenazi, Vladimir, 485
Atlantic magazine, 333, 343
Bailey, George, 469
Bam, Nina, 152
Barron, John, 328
Beeston, Richard, 603–4
Belaya, Galina, 217, 668n17
Belinkov, Arkady, 328, 359–61, 641, 675n9
description of Svetlana, 360
Only One Year and, 379, 381–82
Belinkov, Natalia, 359, 360, 361, 381–82, 641
Benediktov, I. A., 6, 261, 270, 521, 637
Beria, Lavrenty, 86, 88, 93, 135, 137, 138, 147, 173, 180, 237, 603, 634, 635
amnesty for nonpolitical prisoners, 194
Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign and, 143, 144, 147, 660n21
arrest and execution of, 200, 665n21
atomic bomb and, 140
blamed for Stalin’s evil, 199–200, 374, 593, 678n15
Doctors’ Plot and, 180–81
plotting after Stalin’s death, 187
Stalin’s death and, 182, 183, 185–86, 663–64n23
Beria, Nina, 137
Beria, Sergo, 162, 634
Stalin interview with, 137
Svetlana’s romantic interest in, 136–37
wife of, 635
Berlin, Aline,
496, 511
Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 483, 493, 503, 504, 505, 511, 512, 513–15, 642
Traill and, 514, 548, 549
Biagi, Enzo, 121–22, 209, 314, 331
Bialek, Bertha, 233
Biggs, Ruth, 345, 438
Bigland, Eileen, 63
Bitov, Oleg, 563, 576
Black Book, The (Ehrenburg), 205–6
Blake, Patricia, 366, 528–29, 564, 567, 643
Blind Date (Kosinski), 432–33
Bohlen, Charles, 299
Bohlen, Patricia, 330
Bolshevik Party/Bolsheviks/Bolshevik ethics, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 40, 45, 48, 80, 152, 153, 155, 168, 343, 344, 371, 390, 526, 654n9, 660n21
cult of violence, 46
“enemies of the people” ideology, 80
Old Bolsheviks, 26, 29, 33, 36, 78, 80, 82
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 441
Book for Granddaughters, A (Alliluyeva), 570–71, 576, 585–86, 681n16
Borodachev, Ivan, 157
Borovik, Artem, 614, 614n
Bowles, Chester, 5, 6–7, 267, 268, 470, 637
personal power and, 6
Svetlana and, 276
Svetlana’s defection and, 287–88, 291, 292–93, 294
Brezhnev, Leonid, 247, 254, 316, 370, 553, 639
repression by, 250–52, 253, 359, 361, 362
Svetlana and, 256
Brief History of the CPSU, A, 376
Britain
anti-Svetlana campaign in, 327
Muggeridge’s “A Week with Svetlana,” 489
national charities, 691n26
pirated version of Svetlana’s memoirs in, 329–30
press and Svetlana, 509–11
Soviet Embassy, London, 517
Svetlana in Cambridge, England, Bateman Street, Flat 3 residence, 515–19
Svetlana in Cambridge, England, Chaucer Road residence, 501–15
Svetlana in Cornwall, England, Melvin House, charity residence, 600–605
Svetlana in Cornwall, Redruth, charity residence, 605–6
Svetlana in London, England, Ladbroke Grove, charity residence, 588, 590, 590–91
Svetlana in London, England, North Kensington residences, 577–79, 583–84, 588, 590, 590–91
Svetlana’s defection and, 311
Svetlana’s circle of friends, 506–8, 510, 514, 518–19, 583–85, 586, 589–94, 597–98 (see also specific people)
Svetlana’s move to, 490, 494–97
Brodsky, Joseph, 233, 237, 667n13
Brunner, Hugo, 495, 503, 511
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 581
Bubnov, Andrei, 69
Budyonny, Semyon, 34–35
Bukharin, Nikolai, 34, 47
daughter, 13
execution of, 34
Bulganin, Nikolai, 173, 180, 182, 183
Burdonsky, Alexander (nephew), 201–2, 534–35, 556, 633
comment on Kapler, 120
description of Svetlana, 535–39