repercussions for Svetlana’s friends and, 386–87
samizdat and, 217, 250
Svetlana’s children and, 304, 305, 331, 332, 379, 381, 434–35, 440, 445–46, 462–63
Svetlana’s defection back to the Soviet Union and, 544, 554, 561, 563–64
Svetlana’s defection to the US and, 290, 407, 439
Svetlana’s desire to leave the Soviet Union and, 553–54
Svetlana’s second book, sabotage plan for, 378–82
Viktor as agent, 113, 675n8
Khanga, Yelena, 235, 387
Khazan, Dora, 75
Kholodnaya Rechka dacha, 135–36
Khrushchev, Nikita, 529, 635, 639, 650n12, 655n8, 674n6
amnesty for nonpolitical prisoners and, 194
on the child Svetlana, 63
deposing of, 247
de-Stalinization policy, 226
Hungarian uprising and, 376
on Nadya Stalina, 44–45
search for Svetlana’s aunts by, 196
Secret Speech, 211, 211–13, 216, 226, 301
Solzhenitsyn and, 226
Stalin and, 173, 174, 180–81, 662n40
Stalin’s death and, 182, 183, 187
Stalin’s son Vasili and, 201, 230
Svetlana and, 244–45
the Thaw of, 216–17, 226, 241, 244, 247, 250, 376–77
Ukraine, purges in, 212
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 353
Kirk, Roger, 7
Kirov, Sergei, 50–51, 635
assassination of, 76, 653n6
Klimov, Mikhail, 100, 108, 632
Svetlana’s relationship with Kapler and, 115, 118
Kochetov, Vsevolod, 528
Koestler, Arthur, 343
Kohler, Foy, 9, 275–76, 278–79, 315, 326, 638
Koktebel, Crimea, 340
Konstantinova, Nathalie, 13
Kosinski, Jerzy, 431–32, 516, 581
suicide of, 580
Kosinski, Kiki, 581
Kosygin, Alexei, 3, 247, 267, 321, 370, 639
anti-Svetlana campaign, 326
grants Svetlana travel to India, 256, 257
Johnson meeting with, 326
Svetlana’s defection and, 290
Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and, 562
Svetlana summoned to, and permission to marry Singh denied, 248–49
Kovalev, Leonid, 48
Krassin, Louba, 266
Kremlin
children growing up in, 26
cinema at, 63–64
description of, 14
Horse Guards building, 15, 26, 40
“Kremlin set,” 128
Olga Alliluyeva living at, 56–57
plotting after Stalin’s death, 187
Poteshny Palace, 14, 40, 55
Senate (Yellow Palace), 56, 57, 60
Stalin family apartment, 14–15, 28, 55–56
Stalin’s film attendance at, 64, 180
Stalin’s office, 40
Svetlana occupying family apartment, 157–58
Svetlana’s childhood in (“sunny, bygone years”), 13–28
Svetlana summoned to see Kosygin at, 248
Zhdanovs’ apartment in, 162
Krimsky, George, 443, 444, 446, 454–61
Krivenko, Ivan, 79
Kropotkin, Peter, 385
Krylov, Ivan Andreyevich, 26
Kuibyshev, Valerian, 40
Kuntsevo dacha (Blizhniaia), 57–59, 65, 76, 84, 92, 93, 100, 632
all-night meals/drinking at, 111, 135–36, 181
Burdonsky visits, 538
Stalin at, bombing of Hiroshima, 132
Stalin birthday at, 75
Stalin-Churchill meet at, 106
as Stalin residence, 157, 162, 170
Stalin’s death at, 179–88, 237–38
Svetlana and children visit, 172–73
Zhenya Alliluyeva visits after release, 198
Kuntsevo Hospital, 241–43, 254
Kuromiya, Hiroaki, 654n9
Kurpel, George, 443–44, 446, 454–61, 466, 639
Kuznetsov, V. V., 253
Lambert, Angela, 578–79
Lancer International Press, 515
Last Interview (Petrovna and Leshynsky), 461–62
Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 488, 491, 497
Intermediate School, 488
Lenin, Vladimir, 29, 30, 32, 45, 153, 378, 379, 380
with Alliluyeva family, 209–10
Cheka (secret police), 118
remains of, 100, 189
Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), 209–10, 232, 233, 236, 237, 436, 503, 665n44
Leonov, Leonid, 370
Lermontov, Mikhail, 592, 642
Levine, Don, 447–48
Levkov, Ilya, 571
Lewis, Roca, Scoville, Beauchamp & Linton law firm, 404
Liberty Publishing, 571, 681n16
Life and Fate (Grossman), 226, 253
Life magazine
serialization rights for Svetlana’s memoir, 301, 307
“Svetlana Faces Life,” 385
Trotsky’s article, 656n30
Ligachev, Yegor, 553, 554, 557–58
Likhachov, Dmitri, 214
Litvinov, Pavel, 362
Lobanov-Rostovsky, Dimitri Ivanovich, 585
Lobanov-Rostovsky, Nina, 583–85, 586, 589, 607, 642
description of Svetlana, 585
Svetlana’s response to her sister’s suicide, 606–7
Lohia, Dr. Ram Manohar, 245–46
description of Svetlana, 246
London Daily Express, 341
London Review of Books, 589, 596
Long Shadow, The: Inside Stalin’s Family (Richardson), 595–96, 643
Look magazine, 377
Louis, Viktor (Vitaly Yevgenyevich Lui), 328, 339, 557, 575, 604, 639, 675n8, 675n9
theft from Svetlana’s desk and, 113, 330
Lovness, Don and Virginia, 419–20
Lozgachev, Pyotr, 181–82, 183, 663n5
Lucas, Tony, 281, 285, 643
Lukes, Joseph C., 68
Lukomsky, P. E., 183
Lysenko, T. D., 161–62
Malenkov, Georgy, 135, 173, 180, 182, 183
Malraux, André, 352
Mal’tsev, Mikhail, 122
Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 357
Manuilsky, Dmitry and wife, 75
Manuylov, Victor, 233–34, 236–37, 323
Mapes, John, 315, 320
Masselink, Gene, 394
Matthews, Mary, 392–93
McCarthy, Joseph, 141
McMillan, Priscilla Johnson, 320, 328, 333, 358, 367
estrangement from Svetlana, 323
on Max Hayward, 335
Svetlana staying at father’s estate, 317–18, 321–22
as translator, Twenty Letters, 301–3, 321–22, 620, 652n10
McVay, Hella, 430–31
Meir, Golda, 149–50
Melamid, Tak, 221
Meltzer, Yulia. See Djugashvili, Yulia Meltzer
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung), 513
Menshutin, Andrei, 227, 228
Menshutin, Anton, 217
Merzhanov, Miron, 57, 652n3
Messerer, Sulamith Mikhailovna “Mita,” 504–5
MGB (Ministry of State Security), 141
Doctors’ Plot and, 176, 180, 184
removal of Stalin’s possessions by, 188
“secret lifting,” 176
Mikhalkov, Nikita, 485
Mikhoels, Solomon, 148–49, 150, 384, 636, 660n25, 660n29
Mikoyan, Anastas, 29, 35, 81, 88, 93, 94, 112, 173, 211–12, 220, 236, 635
Singh helped by, 249
Singh’s visa and, 244–45
Stalin rug from, 247–48
Mikoyan, Ashkhen Lazarevna, 667n12
Mikoyan, Ella, 249–50, 533, 635
Mikoyan, Stepan, 26, 93, 110, 111, 112, 126, 159, 160, 162, 249, 533, 547, 635
House on th
e Embankment residence, 220
on Svetlana’s marriages and love affairs, 219
wife, Ella, 219
Miller, Thomas, 586–87, 614–15, 641
Model School No. 25, Moscow, 66–70, 67, 115, 136, 526, 634, 653n28
Great Terror and, 85–86
indoctrination taught in, 69, 73
Olga Rifkina at, 107–9
Svetlana graduates, 126
World War II and, 98
Molochnikov, N. V., 144, 660n16
Molotov, Polina, 27, 42, 43, 45, 52, 59, 75, 139, 155, 636
arrest of, 139
exile of, 174, 177
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 35, 40, 52, 61, 75, 93, 188, 636
out of favor, 173–74
Montefiore, Simon Sebag, 44
Morozov, Grigori “Grisha” (first husband), 124, 150, 158, 332, 633
character and personality, 133
contact with Svetlana, 201, 459–61
failing marriage of, 133–35
marriage to Svetlana, 129–35
son with Svetlana, 257–58, 459–60, 634 (see also Alliluyev, Joseph)
Svetlana’s defection and, 536
Svetlana’s return to Russia and, 522, 523
Morozov, Joseph, 150–51
Moscow, Soviet Union. See also Kremlin
American Embassy in, 131, 551, 557, 560, 561
Aragvi restaurant, 111
Church of the Deposition of the Shroud, 225, 230
communal apartments in, 171
as dangerous city, 45
food shortages in, 49, 108
Hall of Columns, 38, 76–77, 185, 188, 189
Hotel Sovietsky, 522, 555, 557
House of Receptions, 531
House on the Embankment, 124, 130, 135, 146, 147, 163, 171, 197–98, 199, 201, 290
intellectuals arrested in (1966), 253
late 1950s, early 1960s, 225–26
Lefortovo Prison, 176, 184, 230
Lubyanka Prison, 98, 118, 119, 121, 143, 176, 207
Lubyanka Square, 118, 119
Model School No. 25, 66–69 (see also Model School No. 25, Moscow)
Moscow Art Theater (MKhAT), 162–63, 164, 214
Moscow Race Course, 221
Novodevichy Cemetery, 52, 53, 83, 525
public rally (1965), 250
secret police in, 226
Severny (Northern), Maryina Roshcha district, 221
Special School No. 2, 73
State Jewish Theater, 148, 149
Svetlana restricted to, 92
Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and residence in, 521–24, 531
Tretyakov Gallery, 165–66
Vasili’s office in, 110
World War II, 93, 95, 97, 102, 107, 108, 114
World War II, evacuation of, 100, 107
World War II, Germans driven back, 105–6
Moscow State University (MGU), 126–29, 231, 301, 362
Moskaleva, Tatyana, 83
Muchnic, Helen, 377
Muggeridge, Kitty, 489, 490, 491–92, 642
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 488–89, 510–11, 642
Murray, Ed, 400
Nabokov, Dmitri, 355
Nabokov, Vladimir, 503
Nakashidze, Alexandra, 79
Nation magazine, 351
New Yorker magazine, 346
New York Times
Anderson interview with Svetlana, 566
exposing CIA agent, 285, 643
Kennan on Svetlana’s defection, 295–96, 316–17
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech and, 213
report on Svetlana’s donations to charity, 344
serialization of Svetlana’s memoir, 301, 307, 341
stolen photos published in, 341
Svetlana coverage, 321
Svetlana’s defection and, 281, 284
Svetlana’s divorce and Taliesin, 423–24
Svetlana’s press conference and, 319
New York Times Book Review, 343
Nikashidze, Sasha, 122–23
Nikolaev, Leonid, 76
NKVD (Soviet Union’s Security and Intelligence Agency), 118, 636. See also KGB; MGB
Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign, 142
Beria as chief, 86
death of Pavel Alliluyev and, 82
executions and purges, 84
Great Terror and, 78, 81, 654n28
Kirov’s death and, 76, 77, 653n6
Nakashidze assigned to Svetlana, 79
Novikov, Alexander, 602
Novoye Russkoye slovo newspaper, 345
Novy Mir, 205, 226
Novy zhurnal (dissident literary journal), 344
Nunn, Sam, 575
Nureyev, Rudolf, 8
Oblomov (film), 485–87
Obolenskaya, Princess, 176
Observer, The, 329
OGPU (secret police), 56, 78, 84. See also NKVD
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), 226–27
Only One Year (Alliluyeva), 229, 338, 368, 373–87, 473, 534, 641
advance paid for, 358
“Destiny” chapter, 383–84
experiences in Italy and Switzerland omitted from, 384
Fischer and, 381, 382, 383, 384
French translation problems, 386
KGB sabotage plan, 378–82
readers for, 381–82
read over Voice of America, 384–85
repercussions for Svetlana’s friends and, 386–87
reviews of, 385–86
Svetlana’s dissociation from, 525–26
Svetlana’s writing routine and, 358
translator for, 370–71, 373, 374, 641
“We Shall Meet Again” section, 386–87
Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, 34, 52
Ordzhonikidze, Zinaida, 34, 52
Ortiz, Raoul, 591
description of Svetlana, 591–92
Ostrovsky, Alexander, 162–63
Painted Bird, The (Kosinski), 581
Paloesik, Albert and George, 314, 317–18, 321, 325, 368–69
Parton, Margaret, 385
Passmore, Dick, 358
Pasternak, Boris, 226, 305, 333, 340, 370, 436
Pauker, Karl Viktorovich, 66
Paulus, Friedrich, 100
Pavlov, Vladimir N., 254
Pennington, New Jersey, 491–92, 497
Toll Gate School, 489
People magazine, 590–91
Peshkova, Marfa, 1–6, 54, 95, 103, 111, 117, 635
Sergo Beria and, 136–37
Peters, Brandoch, 407, 410, 425–26, 640
Svetlana funds his cattle breeding operation, 410, 414–15, 420
Peters, Olga Margedant (Chrese Evans) (daughter), xvii, 413, 418–19, 421–22, 426–27, 640
accounting degree, 610
appearance, 570, 690n50
birth of, 412–13
in Britain, 497, 501, 502–3, 506
changes name to Chrese, 480
character and personality, 508, 521, 559, 589, 609
childhood, 430, 440, 447, 448–49, 466, 469, 479–82, 488, 493
description of, by Burdonsky, 556
education, 431, 437–38, 448, 478, 479–81, 488, 490–91, 496, 502–3, 508–9, 510, 517
education in Soviet Union, 524, 530–31, 543
father’s relationship with, 429, 439, 449, 489–90, 529, 558, 570, 582
Friends’ School, Saffron Walden, England, and, 496, 502–3, 508–10, 530, 551, 555, 559–60, 570
in Greece, 521
ignorance about Stalin, 502, 509–10
left school at eighteen, 572–73
living on the West Coast, 447, 610–23
marriage of, 588–89
media and, 509, 510, 559, 560
men in Georgia and, 546, 555
mother’s death and, 621–23
mother’s final letter to, 623
mother’s relationship with, 453, 508, 517, 518, 524, 529–30, 546, 547, 548, 552–53, 556, 565, 570, 573–74, 576, 580, 58
3, 600, 605, 609, 620, 690n50
mother’s relationship with Tom Turner and, 572
mother’s return to the Soviet Union and, 516, 518, 520
in New York with the Shands, 483, 485
Pleasant Ridge hunting lodge, Wisconsin, and, 566
puppy, Maka, 551, 555, 560–61
Russian relatives and, 521, 522–23, 532, 533
school friend, Emily, 506
Soviet passport, 555
in Soviet Union, 522–24, 530–31, 533
Soviet Union, departure, 558–59
Soviet Union, observations of life in, 533
Soviet Union, permission to leave, 551
Soviet Union, Tbilisi, Georgia, 541–53
Spring Green, Wisconsin, and, 589, 609
at Taliesin, 570
Peters, Wesley (fourth husband), xvi–xvii, 388, 639
Aldebaran farm of, 410, 414, 420
background, 394
birth of daughter, Olga, 412–14
as compulsive spender, 403–4, 416, 472
daughter Olga, 410–13, 426–27, 429, 439, 449, 489–90, 529, 582
daughter Olga visits, 570
death of, 582
divorce from Svetlana, 423–27
first wife, Svetlana Wright, 394–95, 399–400, 640
grave of, 619
marriage to Svetlana, 388, 388, 396–427, 408, 454, 472, 478, 582–83
quitclaim deed of property, 402
Svetlana and, after divorce, 426–27
Svetlana dines with (1989), 576
Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and, 527–28, 558
Taliesin, devotion to, 413
Taliesin, takeover of, 565
Taliesin and Olgivanna Wright, 394–95, 399, 400, 409, 410–11, 417–18, 424
Traill and, 548–49
Petrov, Vladimir, 314, 639
Petrova, Evdokia (Yevdokia), 314, 639
Petrovna, Ana, 462
Pleasant Ridge hunting lodge, Wisconsin, 565, 567–71
Plisetskaya, Maya, 504
Podgorny, Nikolai, 247
Poem Without a Hero (Akhmatova), 683n13
Pole, Rupert, 393
Popeski, Ron, 316
Poskrebyshev, Alexander, 58, 159
Powell, Nicholas, 563
Pozen, Walter, 405, 420–21, 424–27, 641
Pressman, Gabe, 319
Primakov, Yevgeny, 694n11
“Princess, The” (Rahv), 385–86
Princeton, New Jersey, 363, 366, 367, 371, 431, 434, 435, 437, 439, 448
anti-Soviet sentiment in, 469
Episcopalian Church of All Saints, 433
FBI or CIA surveillance in, 350
Greenbaum in, 294
Kennan and family in, 294, 324, 349, 350, 351, 468
Princeton Inn, 350, 372
Svetlana’s Christmas emergency call, 351, 677n5
Svetlana’s home at 50 Wilson Road, 349, 363, 368–69, 429–31, 435, 438–39
Svetlana’s home at 40 Morgan Place, 478–79
Svetlana’s rental on Aiken Avenue, 479–82, 488
Svetlana’s rental on Elm Road, 349–51, 361