24 Facts About Svetlana Alliluyeva

At the school, Svetlana Alliluyeva was given no special treatment, and was regarded simply as another student.

Several other relatives of Svetlana Alliluyeva were killed in the aftermath of the Great Purge, including her aunt Anna, and Anna's husband, Stanislav Redens, who was shot in January 1940.

At the age of sixteen, Svetlana Alliluyeva fell in love with Aleksei Kapler, a Jewish Soviet filmmaker who was 38 years old.

Svetlana Alliluyeva was first married in 1944 to Grigory Morozov, a student at Moscow University's Institute of International Affairs.

Svetlana Alliluyeva's father did not like Morozov, who was Jewish, though he never met him.

Svetlana Alliluyeva's training was in History and Political Thought, a subject she was forced to study by her father, although her true passion was literature and writing.

In 1963, while in hospital for a tonsillectomy, Svetlana Alliluyeva met Kunwar Brajesh Singh, an Indian Communist visiting Moscow.

Singh returned to Moscow in 1965 to work as a translator, but he and Svetlana Alliluyeva were not allowed to marry.

Svetlana Alliluyeva asked to have an official permission to stay in India through the Soviet ambassador, Ivan Benediktov.

Svetlana Alliluyeva traveled to the United States, leaving her adult children in the USSR.

Svetlana Alliluyeva herself stated that she gave away much of her book proceeds to charity and by around 1986 had become impoverished, facing debt and failed investments.

In 1970, Svetlana Alliluyeva answered an invitation from Frank Lloyd Wright's widow, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, to visit Wright's winter studio, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

In 1978, Svetlana Alliluyeva became a US citizen as Lana Peters, and in 1982, she moved with her daughter to Cambridge in England, where they shared an apartment near the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

The British journalist Miriam Gross with whom Alliluyeva conducted her final interview before moving back from England to the Soviet Union in 1984, described Svetlana's increasingly fragile state of mind in a series of letters she wrote to Gross following the interview:.

Svetlana Alliluyeva died on 22 November 2011 from complications arising from colon cancer in Richland Center, where she had spent time while visiting from Cambridge.

Svetlana Alliluyeva's older daughter, Yekaterina, is a volcanologist in Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

Svetlana Alliluyeva was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church on 20 March 1963.

Svetlana Alliluyeva then turned to the Orthodox Church and is reported to have thought of becoming a nun.

In 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva found herself spending time with Roman Catholics in Switzerland and encountered many denominations during her time in the United States.

Svetlana Alliluyeva received a letter from Father Garbolino, an Italian Catholic priest from Pennsylvania, inviting her to make a pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous apparitions there.

Svetlana Alliluyeva read books by authors such as Raissa Maritain.

Svetlana Alliluyeva handed her memoir over to the CIA agent Robert Rayle at the time of her own defection.

Svetlana Alliluyeva was portrayed by Joanna Roth in the HBO's 1992 television film Stalin and Andrea Riseborough in the 2017 satirical film The Death of Stalin.

Svetlana Alliluyeva is the subject of the 2019 novel The Red Daughter by American writer John Burnham Schwartz.