Biography

Daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Moved to the USA in 1967. Published several books.

Her last husband, William Wesley Peters, was an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.

When she was six years old her mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva--Joseph Stalin's second wife--committed suicide, but she was told her mother died of appendicitis. She would find out the truth ten years later. Her brother, Yakov Stalin, was an officer in the Russian army and was captured by German forces during World War II. He was executed when Stalin refused to exchange him for a German general.

Her father Joseph Stalin had sent her first love, a Jewish filmmaker, to Siberia for 10 years. She wanted to study literature at Moscow University but her father insisted that she study history, and she did. After she graduated with a degree from Moscow University, she taught Soviet literature and the English language. She then worked as a literary translator.

[on her father, Joseph Stalin] He broke my life. I want to explain to you. He broke my life. Wherever I go, here or Switzerland, or India, or wherever. Australia. Some island. I will always be a political prisoner of my father's name.

[denouncing the West] You are savages! You are uncivilized people! Goodbye to you all.

[life in the United States after defection] Free, gay and full of bright colors.

[on denouncing her father, Joseph Stalin] A moral and spiritual monster.

[on her father, Joseph Stalin] You can't regret your fate, although I do regret my mother didn't marry a carpenter.