disappearance of, 81
exile in Kazakhstan, 231
marriage to Svetlana, 232, 235, 667n12
in orphanage for children of the condemned, 231
Svanidze, Maria (aunt), xv, 13, 17–18, 22–23, 31, 44, 65, 66–67, 75, 125, 633
arrest of, 81
execution of, 87–88, 139, 139, 230
lying in state of Sergei Kirov and, 76–77
posthumous exoneration of, 88
secret diary, show trials described in, 80–81, 650n10
Svanidze, Mariko (aunt), 13, 16, 17, 139, 633
arrest of, 81
execution of, 88, 139
Svanidze, Sashiko (aunt), 16, 17, 75, 139, 633
“Svetlana Inherited Her Tragic Flaw” (Tucker), 382
Svetlana: The Inside Story (Biagi), 332
Switzerland, 637
Stalin’s gold rumored to be in, 309, 394, 416, 471, 618, 673n27
Svetlana’s defection and, 279, 282, 284, 291–92, 299–310, 671n9
Tabakov, Oleg, 485
Tafel, Edgar, 411
Taliesin Fellowship, xvii, 388–405, 640. See also Wright, Olgivanna
Gurdjieff and, 392
Olga Peters visits, 570
size of, 395
Taliesin as experiment in communal living, 391–92
Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 408–9, 419, 421
Taliesin West, Arizona, 388, 391, 391, 397, 410, 415
Wesley Peters takes over, 565
Tbilisi (Tiflis), Georgia, 540, 544, 648n4
alcohol and social life in, 546
culture of, 555
Georgian love, 543
Gurdjieff in, 390
kidnapping young women in, 546–47
Olgivanna Wright in, 390
rioting in (1956), 226
Sioni Cathedral, 544
Stalin at Tiflis Seminary, 18–19, 229, 544
Stalin’s mother in, 18, 19, 62, 65–66, 539, 555
Stalin’s roots and first marriage in, 16–17, 31
Svanidze family and, 16
Svetlana and Olga in, 541–53
Svetlana gets permission to visit, 539–40
Svetlana’s residence in, 542
Svetlana’s sixtieth birthday in, 552
World War II and, 100
Ten Days That Shook the World (film), 526
Ten Days That Shook the World (Reed), 81
Tess, Tatiana, 206, 331–32
Thaw, The (Ehrenberg), 204–5, 634, 665n33
Thomas, Evan, 300, 317, 330, 338, 341, 638
Thomas, Sir Hugh, 589, 643
Thomas, Inigo, 589, 590
Thomas, Lady Vanessa, 589–90, 643
description of Svetlana, 589
Thompson, Llewellyn, 276
Thompson, Nicholas, 620
Tiflis Seminary, 18–19, 390, 544
Til, Carolina, 25, 25, 42, 632
dismissal of, 79, 654n10
Time magazine, 366, 454, 643
“The Saga of Stalin’s ‘Little Sparrow,’” 528–29, 567
Times of London, 343
disparaging article on Svetlana, 603–4
Timoshenko, Katya, 535
“To Boris Leonidovich Pasternak” (Alliluyeva), 305, 311, 333, 640
Tokaraskaya, Valentina, 122, 206, 208, 209
Tolstoy, Count Aleksei, 232, 359
Tolstoy, Dmitri, 232–33, 235
Tolstoy, Leo, 232, 344, 385
Tolstoy, Tatyana, 232, 234
Tolstoya, Alexandra, 344, 468–69, 472
description of Svetlana, 344–45
Tolstoy Foundation, 344
Tomsky, Mikhail, 218, 634
Tomsky, Yuri, 218, 634
Traill, Vera Suvchinskaya, 514, 548, 643
Trenton Times: Svetlana interview, 474–76
Trotsky, Leon, 380, 656n30
Truman, Harry, 141
Tsvetayeva, Marina, 436
Tucker, Evgeniya, 433
Tucker, Robert, xvii, 381, 382–83, 433, 525–26
“Svetlana Inherited Her Tragic Flaw” article by, 527–28
Turgenev, Ivan, 332
Turner, Tom, 571–74, 641
Twenty Letters to a Friend (Alliluyeva), xvi, 4, 236–40, 374, 526, 635, 639, 641
advance paid for, 307, 324, 425
attempt to publish, 266
CIA and, 292
copyright, issues with, 473–74, 477–78
copyright returned to Svetlana, 620
danger of confiscation, 253, 269
editorial decisions about, 322–23
epilogue, 347–48
Kaul takes to India, 253, 262, 265, 266
Kennan and, 293, 294
KGB sabotage and anti-Svetlana campaign and, 328–29, 338
lawyers for, 294–95, 296, 298–302, 306, 307, 341, 342, 477–78, 638
manuscript, given to Rayle, 4
pirated version, 329–30, 339
pre-approval rights not in contract, 341
publisher for, 294, 296, 300, 638
release date, 327, 330
reviews of, 343–44
sales, 358
serialization and subsidiary rights, 301, 307, 329–30, 339, 358
Svetlana and publication of, 338–42
Svetlana defects with manuscript, 271, 291
Swiss demand for secrecy about, 300
translator for, 301, 321, 641
Volkenstein and, 236, 305
United States. See also Central Intelligence Agency; US Department of State; specific locations
anti-Communism in, 141
CIA created, 141
consular convention with the Soviets, 276–77
radical left, 1960s, 345
relationship with the Soviet Union, 140–41
Svetlana arrives in, 313, 315–17
Svetlana as American citizen Lana Peters, 465–82
Svetlana’s defection as problematic, 276–78
US Department of State. See also specific embassies and personnel
in Rome, 276
Svetlana’s defection, 1–8, 275–76, 291, 296, 309–10, 470, 671n9
Svetlana’s press statements and, 315, 319
Svetlana’s return to the US and, 551
Svetlana’s visa and, 299, 300
Ushakov, Alexander, 215, 251–52
Utechin, Pat, 512–13
Vinogradov, Vladimir, 182–83, 663n8
arrest of, 183
Vlasik, General Nikolai, 58, 118, 129, 130, 156, 636
Volkenstein, Fyodor, 235, 236, 305, 356, 532, 635
Voroshilov, Kliment “Uncle Voroshilov,” 35, 39–40, 75, 217
Voroshilova, Ekaterina, 75
Vorotnikov, Vitaly, 541
Voznesensky, Andrei, 315–16, 674n6
Waite, Terry, 495–96, 508, 642
Wall, Danny, 1, 468
Washington Post, 382
Svetlana interview, 474–76
Svetlana’s departure from the Soviet Union and, 558
Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and, 527
We (Zamyatin), 216
Wegner, Gustav, 125
Werth, Alexander, 343–44
description of Svetlana, 369–70
Wilson, Elena, 369
Wolfe, Bertram, 343
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 352, 640
World War I, 32
World War II, 114
Battle of Stalingrad, 124
bombing of Moscow, 102
ending, 131
evacuation of Moscow, 100, 107
German invasion of the Soviet Union, 92–95, 97–98, 99–102, 655n8
Germans driven back from Moscow, 105–6
Holocaust, 205–6
Kuibyshev as Russian capital, 100
Soviet losses, 106, 110, 126, 130, 132
Soviet POWs given prison sentences, 126
Soviets’ fortieth anniversary of victory, 526
Stalin and, 92–102, 655n10
Stalin refuses prisoner exchange for his son, 99, 125–26
Stalin’s Order 227, 126
Stalin’s Order 270, 98
Stalin’s sons sent to the front, 95
Stalin’s son Yakov taken prisoner, 98–100, 99
Wortham, Buel R., 277
Wright, Frank Lloyd, xvi, 388, 393, 397, 640
Olgivanna and, 390, 418
Taliesin and Taliesin West, 390–91, 391, 397
Wright, Iovanna, 395, 396, 419, 420, 424, 640
Wright, Olgivanna, xvi, 420, 640
appearance, 395, 396
background, 389–90
born Olga Ivanovna Lazovich, 389–90
compared to Stalin, 418
daughter, Svetlana, 389, 394–95
death of, 565, 570
Gurdjieff and, 390
invites Svetlana to Taliesin, 389
marriage to Valdemar Hinzenberg, 640
Svetlana and, 395, 400, 401, 402–3, 409, 410–11, 412, 416–20, 423–24, 471
Taliesin and, 391–93
Wesley-Svetlana marriage and, 394, 399, 400, 402, 418, 420
Wright, Svetlana (Hinzenberg), 389, 394–95, 640
Wrigley, Mrs., 400
Yagoda, Genrikh, 77, 81, 603, 636
Yegorov, Alexander, 41
Yegorov, Galina, 41
Yeltsin, Boris, 541, 605, 614, 694n11
Yemen, 553
Yesenin-Volpin, Alexander, 251
Yevreinov, Nikolai, 24
Yezhov, Nikolai, 81, 603, 636, 654n28
Yiddish State Theater, Moscow, 636. See also Mikhoels, Solomon
Zaikov, Lev, 541
Zamoyska, Madame Helen, 576
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 216
Zhdanov, Andrei, 65, 135, 160, 161, 165, 633, 636
Zhdanov, Anya (granddaughter), 521, 545, 585–86, 634
Zhdanov, Katya (daughter), 157, 171, 173, 269, 434, 455, 536, 634
alcohol problem, 587
birth of, 166
character and personality, 587
Communist Party and, 202, 227
daughter, Anya, 521, 545, 585–86, 634
as geophysicist, 441, 505
in Kamchatka, Siberia, 213, 505, 533, 585, 586, 634, 641
KGB and, 304, 379, 381
life in Russia, 441
news of reaches Svetlana, 440–41
phone call to Svetlana, 586
Singh and, 245
as Stalinist, 212
Svetlana’s appeal to, 585–86
Svetlana’s farewell to, before defecting, 258
Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and, 533, 544–45, 549
Zhdanov, Yuri (second husband), 164, 441, 633
adoption of Joseph, 162
appointed head of the Science Department of the Central Committee, 161, 167
contact with Svetlana, 201
daughter with Svetlana, 434, 634
family hypocrisy and, 166
Lysenko Affair and, 161–62
marriage to Svetlana, 160–71
mother-Svetlana conflict, 166, 167, 168, 169, 171
Stalin permits divorce, 170–71
Svetlana’s defection and, 536
Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and, 544–45
Zhukov, Georgy, 92
Zhukovka, 202
Joseph Alliluyev’s dacha at, 532
Svetlana’s dacha at, 201–2, 221, 236
Zlatogorova, Tatiana, 119
Zubalovo dacha compound, 28–35, 84, 238, 363
alterations after Nadya Stalina’s death, 56
Bolshevik Party elite at, 34
family visiting, 30–31
Kapler’s arrest and, 122–23
Mikoyan family at, 29
Stalin and wife Nadya’s dacha, 29–30
Stalin’s bath (banya) at, 30
Svetlana at, 106, 110, 111, 131, 485
Svetlana’s son Joseph at, 132, 158
Vasili Stalin at, 110, 111
yurts at, 92, 230
About the Author
ROSEMARY SULLIVAN has written poetry, short fiction, biography, literary criticism, reviews and articles. Her recent books include the critically acclaimed Villa Air-Bel and Labyrinth of Desire. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, and has been awarded Guggenheim, Camargo and Trudeau Fellowships. She is a recipient of the Lorne Pierce Medal awarded by the Royal Society of Canada for her contribution to Literature and Culture, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Also by Rosemary Sullivan
Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession
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* Svetlana defines this in the margin of Nadya’s letter as “a peasant woman.”
* Dekulakization: Soviet campaign of political repression, including deportations and executions, of so-called wealthy peasants.
* In her letters Svetlana underlined, capitalized, and added marginal notes and the occasional drawing, which uncannily gave them the emphasis of her speaking voice.
* The NKGB (People’s Commissariat for State Security) was renamed the MGB (Ministry for State Security) in 1946.
* On the eve of the 2000 presidential elections in Russia, Borovik died in a plane crash just before the publication of his investigation into an apartment bombing in Moscow and his article about Vladimir Putin’s childhood.