Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Alliluyeva
  • Светлана Аллилуева
  • სვეტლანა ალილუევა
Alliluyeva in 1970
Born
Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina

(1926-02-28)28 February 1926
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died22 November 2011(2011-11-22) (aged 85)
Other namesLana Peters
Citizenship
OccupationsWriter and lecturer
Notable workTwenty Letters to a Friend (book), Only One Year (book)
Spouses
(m. 1944; div. 1947)
(m. 1949; div. 1952)
(m. 1962; div. 1963)
(m. 1965; died 1966)
(m. 1970; div. 1973)
Children
  • Iosif Alliluyev (1945–2008)
  • Yekaterina "Katya" Zhdanova (b. 1950)
  • Olga Peters / Chrese Evans (b. 1971)
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Relatives
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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (née Stalina; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967 she became an international sensation when she defected to the United States and, in 1978, became a naturalized American citizen. From 1984 to 1986 she briefly returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship reinstated. She was Stalin's last surviving child.