Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva: from the Kremlin to a nursing home

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Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva: from the Kremlin to a nursing home
Svetlana with her father and brother Vasily


Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva lived a long, unusual and vibrant life. She managed to live in many countries, survived five husbands, left memoirs and numerous interviews. However, her identity is still controversial and controversial. So what kind of person was she really?



Childhood and youth


Svetlana was born in 1926. In 1932, a six-year-old girl experienced an event that left an imprint on her entire future life and undoubtedly influenced her character and psyche - her mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, committed suicide after a quarrel with her husband.

At the age of 16, Svetlana begins an affair with 40-year-old screenwriter Alexei Kapler. Upon learning of this, Stalin became furious. Kapler is arrested, accused of "anti-Soviet propaganda" and given five years in the camps.


Alexey Kapler and young Svetlana

Two years later, barely reaching adulthood, Svetlana marries a classmate of her brother Vasily Grigory Morozov. Stalin also did not like the new choice of his daughter.

“Damn you! Do whatever you want, as long as I don’t see him at home!”

he said to his daughter.

Svetlana fulfilled her father's condition: indeed, Stalin never saw Grigory Morozov during the entire marriage.

In the spring of 1945, Svetlana gave birth to a boy, named Joseph after his grandfather. However, her happy family life did not last long. Already in 1948, not without the intervention of Stalin, the marriage was officially annulled. Gregory's father was sent into exile. However, he himself was not hurt.


Svetlana's son Joseph (1945–2008)

The following year, Svetlana marries the son of Andrei Zhdanov, Yuri. However, this marriage did not last long: after three years, the couple divorced.

The third marriage of Svetlana with Ivan Svanidze lasted even less - only two years (1957-1959). It is noteworthy that both parents and Ivan's sister were shot during the Stalinist repressions, Ivan himself spent several years in exile after the war.

Death of the father


In 1953, an event occurred that Svetlana both expected and feared at the same time. Her father died. She was personally present at his death and 10 years later described this moment in detail in her book of memoirs "Twenty Letters to a Friend":

“The face darkened and changed, gradually its features became unrecognizable, the lips turned black. The last hour or two people just slowly suffocated. The agony was terrible. She strangled him in front of everyone. At some point, apparently at the last minute, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked around at everyone who was standing around. It was a terrible look, either insane or angry and full of horror before death and before the unfamiliar faces of the doctors bending over him ... In the next moment, the soul, having made the last effort, escaped from the body. The body calmed down, the face turned pale and took on its familiar shape; in a few moments it became serene, calm and beautiful. Everyone stood around, petrified, in silence, for several minutes—I don’t know how long—it seemed like a long time. Then the members of the government rushed to the exit - they had to go to Moscow, to the Central Committee, where everyone sat and waited for news. They went to tell the news that everyone was secretly waiting for. Let's not sin against each other - they were torn apart by the same conflicting feelings that I was - grief and relief.

The death of her father, of course, was hard for Svetlana. But on the other hand, the 27-year-old girl lost that excessive guardianship that weighed on her all her life. No one else dictated to her how to build her personal life and how to behave.

Time for a change


From the point of view of everyday life, nothing has changed in Svetlana's life - she still continued to live in privileged conditions, not caring about where to earn a piece of bread. She was left with a dacha, an apartment and was assigned a pension of 4000 rubles.

However, significant changes were taking place in the life of the country at that time. First, Beria was arrested and shot - the most likely, as it seemed to many, Stalin's heir. Khrushchev, who came to power in 1956, at the XNUMXth Congress of the CPSU, reads a secret report on the exposure of Stalin's personality cult. When this report was given to Svetlana to read, she only said:

“The most amazing thing is that everything written here is true.”

De-Stalinization begins. Svetlana herself took part in it. If until 1957 she bore the name of Stalin, now she takes the name of her mother - Alliluyeva. Moreover, he does this absolutely voluntarily, unlike his brother Vasily, who spent seven years in prison for “anti-Soviet propaganda”, and who, after his release, was forcibly deprived of his former surname. In the future, once again getting married, she will change her surname again. However, in history will enter exactly as Svetlana Alliluyeva.

In the early 1960s, another de facto spouse of Svetlana became an Indian citizen Brajesh Singh, who was much older than her and by that time already had health problems. In 1966, Singh dies, bequeathed to cremate his body and scatter the ashes over the Ganges River in India.

Emigration


Fulfilling the request of the deceased, Svetlana flies to India, where the Politburo released her for two months. Already in India, she had the idea not to return to the USSR. First, Svetlana asks Indira Gandhi for permission to stay in the country, but she, not wanting to spoil relations with the Soviet Union, refuses. Then Svetlana decides to take a desperate step. She takes her passport, a small suitcase with her things and arrives at the American embassy in Delhi, where she declares that she is Stalin's daughter and wants to emigrate to America. She later justified her emigration as follows:

“My non-return in 1967 was based not on political, but on human motives ... In those years, I paid my tribute to the blind idealization of the so-called “free world”, the world with which my generation was completely unfamiliar.”


Svetlana Alliluyeva in exile

Naturally, such a move caused a sensation in all the world's media. In April 1967, Svetlana arrives in the United States, where journalists from all over the world follow her relentlessly. Apparently, she did not think at all about what her children felt at that moment - 22-year-old Joseph and 16-year-old Katya, who remained in the USSR.

In the same year, in the USA, Svetlana publishes her book "Twenty Letters to a Friend", which she wrote back in 1963 in the USSR. The book instantly becomes a bestseller and brings the author, according to the most conservative estimates, about $ 2,5 million.

In the US, Svetlana is getting married for the fifth time. Now her husband is the architect William Peters. In 1971, their daughter Olga was born (who later changed her name to Chris Evans). However, Svetlana also did not live long with her fifth and this time her last husband, and they are getting divorced next year.


Chris Evans, daughter of Svetlana and granddaughter of Stalin

For the next 12 years, she leads a free life, travels to many countries, and for some time lives in the UK. However, in 1984 she again performs an amazing and unpredictable act - this time she decides to return to the USSR.

Return and second emigration


Even more surprising is the fact that the Soviet authorities gladly accept her and give her such honors, as if Stalin is still alive. However, the children abandoned to her 17 years ago never forgave Svetlana. Her daughter Ekaterina refused to even meet her mother, and a few months later she wrote her a short letter:

"I don't forgive, I never will, and I don't want to forgive."

For about two years, Svetlana has been living in Georgia, after which she again decides to leave the USSR - this time forever. Soon after her departure, she needed money, and in 1992 Stalin's daughter ended up in a nursing home in Richland, Wisconsin, under the name Lana Peters. Everyone turned away from her: friends, relatives and even her own children.


One of the last photos of Svetlana. 2011 Wisconsin Nursing Home

And only journalists occasionally visited her to interview. She gave her last interview in 2008. It was remembered mainly by the fact that Svetlana refused to speak Russian with journalists from Russia, saying that she was not Russian. She died in 2011 at the age of 85.

As you can see, this woman lived an unusual life. Until the end of her days, she was never able to find happiness in her personal life. She could not choose a place where she would feel happy, constantly moving, changing countries and cities. Someone will say that she herself was to blame for all her troubles and failures. Or perhaps Svetlana just wanted to find herself throughout her life, but she never found it.
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  1. +27
    4 January 2023 05: 43
    It's hard for snickering majors to find themselves in the real world.
    1. +10
      4 January 2023 06: 47
      You can forgive a lot - almost everything, with the exception of the attitude towards "children"!
      1. +15
        4 January 2023 07: 35
        Judging by the biography, the psyche peddled a long time ago. Even basic instincts were affected.
        1. +5
          4 January 2023 12: 34
          Judging by the biography, the psyche peddled a long time ago


          Her daughter, too, judging by the photos. I looked and decided not to spread this muck here.
          1. 0
            4 January 2023 15: 17
            There will be a place and time for photographs on a different topic. To lift your spirits.
    2. TIR
      +2
      10 January 2023 11: 40
      The man never worked. Men appreciated her for being the daughter of the leader. And when there is everything in life, then a person is arranged in such a way that he is looking for tests for himself. So there is no need to judge strongly for her emigration. Yes, and according to her, it is also not necessary to judge Stalin. After all, until old age, she remained essentially a child.
    3. 0
      28 February 2023 07: 20
      Dear, you are wrong, all the snickering majors are not looking for anything in this world, they have everything, and slaves work for them, like us, starting from the manager. Again, the revolution will happen, the slaves will go to cut the guards, the owners, as always, will run abroad ....
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    1. -1
      4 January 2023 06: 03
      You are right.
      This Kepler came *out of nowhere*. He was very carefully *brought* to Svetlana.
      Today it is possible, albeit very carefully, to laugh at the omnipotence of the Jews in the SOVIET UNION, but there was a time when ANY Jew, feeling at least somewhat disadvantaged, simply wrote a denunciation and * guilty * planted. They gave a lot of time.
      Svetlana was simply afraid that she, like VASILYA, would be *put* on drugs with alcohol, or simply strangled.
      She ran wherever she could.
      1. +4
        5 January 2023 10: 58
        Now not much has changed, it is enough to turn on the TV and look at those who care for Russia. Or the composition of those who left or condemned the NWO. About different radio stations, there is no talk at all.
  3. -14
    4 January 2023 06: 21
    In any case, she behaved with dignity and toughness! You can talk a lot about how and what, but it’s worth recognizing that she made decisions and didn’t cry! Indeed, the daughter of her Father!
    1. +14
      4 January 2023 06: 49
      Quote: lithium17
      In any case, she behaved with dignity and toughness! You can talk a lot about how and what, but it’s worth recognizing that she made decisions and didn’t cry! Indeed, the daughter of her Father!

      Uh-huh, worthily abandoned her own children!
      1. +8
        5 January 2023 03: 40
        Her brother Vasily described her very correctly. He said that she hated her father because he did not allow her to brag about her relationship with Stalin and use her emphatically position. She wanted to be treated like a princess, and her father forbade even treating others with sweets from the Kremlin, so as not to emphasize that she had the opportunity to eat such sweets. Having received such a trauma, she believed that her father himself does not live in luxury and does not allow the whole country to live in it, and therefore she began to believe that in the West there is a "paradise", where everything is possible and where people like her live in abundance and luxury and that's it. give them signs of attention, as royal persons. That was the mess in her head. We all see the result. The case is clinical.
        1. TIR
          +3
          10 January 2023 11: 43
          Vasily, in his youth, was also no better. Only now, having matured, he gained his mind, and Svetlana remained with childish thinking and resentment
  4. +13
    4 January 2023 07: 23
    Chris Evans, daughter of Svetlana and granddaughter of Stalin
    Thank God that DED does not see this ....
  5. +6
    4 January 2023 07: 29
    she only said: “The most amazing thing is that everything written here is true.”
    I understood what it threatened if I said: "It's not true"
    1. +2
      4 January 2023 16: 41
      She did not refuse this assessment of the report even later, when nothing threatened her.
      1. +1
        5 January 2023 10: 13
        Quote: Sergej1972
        She did not refuse this assessment of the report even later, when nothing threatened her.

        Refusal of this assessment in conditions already favorable for her would mean confirmation of the opinion about her as a traitor to her country and her children, that selfish interests have always been in the first place for her. An insignificance, by the will of fate, found itself where it does not belong.
  6. -4
    4 January 2023 08: 16
    Svetlana Alliluyeva spoke very accurately about the very moment of her father's death, which indicates that she was an observant and attentive person.
    She accurately conveyed how the soul parted from the body - after the departure of the soul from the body, which are set forth by the Holy Fathers
    What fear and trembling awaits you, soul, on the day of death! you will see terrible, wild demons! ........ A word about death
  7. +10
    4 January 2023 08: 30
    Khrushchev, who came to power in 1956, at the XNUMXth Congress of the CPSU, reads a secret report on the exposure of Stalin's personality cult. When this report was given to Svetlana to read, she only said:

    “The most amazing thing is that everything written here is true.”
    There were no brains, and they did not grow. Another organ directed her actions. Major, one word.
    1. +4
      4 January 2023 11: 21
      I read an analysis of the nonsense composed by Khrushchev. Straight to the paragraphs. There is a continuous distortion of facts and outright lies. It is strange that the then top government, colleagues from the Central Committee Khrushchev, did not call the orderlies directly to the congress.
      1. +2
        4 January 2023 16: 52
        This report was previously discussed with members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, so its content was not a secret for them. It seems that Pospelov played the main role in writing the report. True, during the reading of the report, Khrushchev added many comments from himself. By the way, the report ends with the fact that Stalin is still recognized as an outstanding Marxist-Leninist.
  8. +2
    4 January 2023 10: 51
    The number of divorces is impressive :(
    1. +2
      4 January 2023 12: 43
      The number of divorces is impressive
      No one satisfied the ambitions of the major. And above, I already wrote that, in my opinion, she replaced the brain.
  9. -4
    4 January 2023 13: 01
    I think if the Soviet authorities, following the example of the British, had taken care to create special schools for the children of the elite, then there would have been no problems with the majors. The Britons have learned to educate the elite.
    1. +5
      4 January 2023 14: 13
      if the Soviet authorities, following the example of the British, were concerned about the creation of special schools for the children of the elite

      In the seventies there were such schools, at least in Moscow, but whether they were of any use is another question.
      1. +2
        4 January 2023 14: 44
        Recently, ignorance has firmly occupied a dominant position on the site. The ball is ruled by illiterate bawlers. The man blurted out about "special schools" without even a remote idea of ​​what British education is, not to mention what social and cultural capital is and how it is formed. This question is more tragic than it seems, since the processes of formation of such capital in Russia are completely destroyed in the pursuit of momentary profit.
        By the way, in the USSR, in addition to schools for children of the party elite, there were closed boarding schools for especially gifted children of the physical, mathematical and chemical-biological profile, which were created in 1963 at Moscow, Novosibirsk, Leningrad and Kiev State Universities. Later they were joined by similar educational institutions in Yerevan and Tbilisi. And to get there, one had to be precisely "gifted". Blat did not pass. It is no coincidence that Soviet fundamental science was quoted in the world, in contrast to its application in practice.
        1. +5
          4 January 2023 16: 53
          The school at Moscow State University is still successfully functioning.
        2. +3
          4 January 2023 17: 08
          The brain of a teenager in suitable conditions can develop well: at least in mathematics, even in biology.
        3. +4
          4 January 2023 17: 43
          setter
          The man blurted out about "special schools" without even a remote idea of ​​what British education is,

          Since you shouted so much, you had to explain your thought, show your literacy, and not spread to the secondary.
          The rich and powerful in Britain send their children to boarding schools at the age of 6, in which offspring are taught discipline, patriotism, sports, so that the child does not become corrupted with money and compromise their parents, and squander their fortune.
          For example, if Mara Baghdasoryan, the daughter of a millionaire, who arranged multiple accidents on the roads of Moscow, would be sent to the Institute of Noble Maidens, then she would be able to read poetry, draw, but she would definitely not be satisfied with an accident, and this is the main function of British schools for the elite.


          On October 3, 2015, a BMW X5, which was driving at high speed, skidded, hitting two cars moving along the way. One of them caught fire. As a result of the accident, 3 people died.
          It turned out that Mara Baghdasaryan was in the passenger seat of the car that provoked the accident. As a result of the accident, the girl was badly injured and was in a coma for 3 weeks. Subsequently, the street racer will take the wheel and begin to briskly cut through the Moscow streets on her own. In another high-profile auto-deal, Mara also turned out to be a prominent figure. We are talking about chasing the car of the son of the vice-president of the oil company Lukoil Ruslan Shamsuarov. Then in the Mercedes Gelendvagen there were not only young men, but also Mara. The chase, insults to the police were broadcast online. Mara was arrested for 10 days. But this case did not teach the girl anything. Hundreds of fines followed again.



          1. -7
            4 January 2023 20: 35
            Don't tell me what to do, and I won't tell you where you need to go.

            M. Zhvanetsky
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  10. +3
    4 January 2023 16: 05
    ".... declaring that he is not Russian."

    Here is the answer explaining her quirks.
  11. -9
    4 January 2023 22: 23
    In my opinion, a long and happy life.
    Mostly compared to the brothers, of course.

    The first brother was in a very tough conflict with his father (it even went as far as a suicide attempt) and died in German captivity at the age of 38. The second brother was arrested just a month after his father's death, served 7 years, and died of alcoholism at the age of 40 shortly after his release.
    1. +7
      5 January 2023 01: 05
      Quote from: dump22
      In my opinion, a long and happy life.
      Mostly compared to the brothers, of course.

      The first brother was in a very tough conflict with his father (it even went as far as a suicide attempt) and died in German captivity at the age of 38. The second brother was arrested just a month after his father's death, served 7 years, and died of alcoholism at the age of 40 shortly after his release.

      From alcoholism? Come on, carry this nonsense! At least read your comment, 7 SEVEN years without alcohol (I don’t think you will mind.) And suddenly at 40 years old .... By the way, during the arrest of Vasily, no signs of alcoholism were detected, moreover, by doctors!
      1. -3
        7 January 2023 02: 04
        His sister Svetlana, Shelepin and a bunch of people who knew him personally wrote about his alcoholism.
        Well, for example, his third wife Kapitolina Vasilyeva:
        When he was transferred to the Vladimir prison and visits were allowed, I saw Vasily again ... "Moles" (jailers, overseers) made sure that I did not carry a bottle of alcohol. Yes, my God! I was pleased that at least this prison is useful to Vasily - he is deprived of the opportunity to drink ...
  12. +1
    5 January 2023 20: 10
    85 years of absolutely useless life ... Well, except that life gave three people
  13. AB
    +1
    11 January 2023 17: 51
    Already by the nature of this madam, I do not undertake to take her words about Stalin as the truth. It is strange that the sons seem to have grown up to be worthy citizens, but this one ... Well, in principle. When the whole country is on the shoulders, and even more so the theory of ideology, then it is possible to devote less and less time to the family.
  14. +1
    25 January 2023 14: 26
    Svetlana Stalin turned out to be the unfinished daughter of her great father. She even changed her surname, first taking the surname of her mother, and then her last husband. Turned out to be a bastard.
  15. 0
    26 January 2023 01: 11
    Long noted - ON CHILDREN OF GENIUS NATURE IS RELAXING!!! bully
    And on the slutty Svetka, nature was pulled off to the fullest and with a pull! laughing
    If you fall into mysticism: then the daughter is a whore - God's punishment to the Boss for the initial participation, together with the Yudo-Bolsheviks, in the robbery of Russia, participation in the "gusskaya gefolution" and in the bloody genocide of the Russian people ... am
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  17. -1
    22 March 2023 17: 50
    You can understand her, she knew exactly what a maniac her dad was and what kind of environment he had from all sorts of Beria, Molotov, Khrushev.

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